<p>Okay, I never exactly understood how unighted GPA is computed vs. weighted. Can some one explain briefly?</p>
<p>Also, our HS uses: A+= 4; A= 3.5; B+ = 3.0; B = 2.5 for full year (1 cr) courses, with half the pts for half year courses. Is that the way most HS do it? </p>
<p>I recall when I went to college A = 4.0; B+ = 3.5; B = 3.0</p>
<p>Weighted course grade value X Point Value…you are missing that point value. Some schools add a full point for AP Courses.</p>
<p>Our High School does not add any points or value for Honors or AP classes in calculating GPA. An A+ in a full year course is 4 pts; in a half year course, 2 pts. An A in a full year course is 3.50 pts, and in a half year course, 1.75 pts etc.</p>
<p>So that means that your school simply computes an unweighted GPA, and you have no weighted GPA.</p>
<p>Weighted would reflect that an A in an AP or honors course would generate more value in the total calculation. Unweighted means all courses are calculated equally…AP Physics would carry same value as gym.</p>
<p>Thanks, but does the GPA value reported make sense with an A being only 3.5? Do colleges all recompute the GPA based on their own evaluations? it seems like it would be a lot of extra work, given all they have to do already reading those essays etc.</p>
<p>Gym? Do other schools count gym in the GPA? Ours doesn’t!</p>
<p>It sounds as if your concern is the college recognizing that a 3.5 is level of perfection at your particular school. I should think the counselor report or school profile will make a point of this fact. Certainly the distribution of GPA would not reflect the difference in students who took more difficult course load but the number of students taking APs or more difficult courses should be reported. Is that your concern? My HS used an 11.0 scale.</p>
<p>My high school used A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0. Pluses and minuses were irrelevant. There was no weighting - too much controversy over which classes should be weighted.</p>
<p>When I was a high school student, I was bitter about our lack of weighting. I took 14 APs and a couple of dual credit college classes, and I had a 3.85. I thought that it would hurt me in a sea of 4.0s.</p>
<p>Once I’d gone through the admissions process and been at college for a while, I decided that in retrospect not weighting was fine (and for that school, right). It didn’t seem to hurt me in admissions. Schools see whether you took hard classes anyway. They see your transcripts. They know how you did in your hard and easy classes. They know whether you were getting As, regardless of what an A equates to on your school’s scale.</p>