<p>There is a big disparity in my weighted and unweighted GPA/rank. </p>
<p>Weighted, I am 11/634 (1.7%)</p>
<p>Unweighted, I am 65 (10.3%)</p>
<p>Which ones will schools look at?</p>
<p>Wait, does your transcript reflect both? Mine only shows weighted (hmm thankgosshhh).</p>
<p>transcripts usually will have weighted, but there will be a notation that it is weighted and what that scale is. At least mine has it.</p>
<p>yes, mine shows both</p>
<p>Second opinion, anyone? 88 views, and two replies...?</p>
<p>We show both, but also look at your ACT they recalculate and is sent with the scores to your top 4</p>
<p>Different colleges/universities have differing attitudes about weighted and unweighted GPAs. It depends on the schools you're considering.</p>
<p>Thank gosh mine only shows Weighted... I mean, it says it's weighted, but that's all that's used for our ranking... otherwise the kids in all regular courses could probably get a 4.0 and be valedictorian.</p>
<p>tdn,</p>
<p>Yours is a question that is almost impossible to answer because different high schools use different grade weighting systems and how those grades are evaluated by adcoms varies depending upon the college or university. As a GENERAL rule, I would say that most colleges that would evaluate you on a GPA/standardized test score admissions "index" (lesser privates, and most public universities, excluding the top tier publics) are going to use your weighted gpa. On the other hand, top colleges and universities, whether public or private, are probably going to recalculate your gpa using their own system to put all of their applicants on the same scale so that the adcoms can have a standard measure with which to compare everyone in the pool.</p>