What am I missing…I don’t understand why Admissions would re-calculate a weighted GPA when weight is rigor —- at least in our school…more weight is given to an A in honors or AP
for example because it is much harder to earn the A in a higher-level course.
Why is re-calculating useful to Admissions?
Thank you.
They absolutely look at rigor. Not all GPA’s are calculated the same so they recalculate to assess everyone using the same scale/standards. What your school does is done at a majority of schools. Most drop out all the elective and non-academic classes.
Because high schools use different weighting methods. If your high school uses +1.0 or +0.5 weighting, you probably do not want your student’s weighted GPA compared at face value against a South Carolina student’s weighted GPA which can have weighted grade values up to 6.0.
Each high school has its own grading scale so it’s hard to compare apples to apples with weighed GPA. Unweighting the GPA and then looking at course rigor makes it easier on the adcoms to assess their applicant pool.
Agree with the above. Note that some high schools do not calculate a weighted GPA at all.
Also Admissions departments may chose to recalculate GPA based on their own criteria (ex. academic subjects only).
I’ve seen 6.0 GPA’s, our school caps out at 4.4. Our school gives equal credit for honors and AP.
Interesting, DD school gives more weight to AP, then DE, then Honors!