<p>If my school does not show unweighted GPA, will schools (specifically Brown) calculate it?</p>
<p>On my transcript, all the grades are there with weighted GPA, which is like 4.5. My unweighted would be like 3.75…So, do they look at both (even if only 1 is on your transcript)?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Brown would look at your transcript as a whole, not just whatever number your school calculates. My GPA was calculated out of 6; if Brown tried to directly compare my GPA to other students’ GPAs, it wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>So essentially, the weighted GPA doesn’t tell too much; although they might not explicitly calculate an unweighted GPA, they won’t ignore the concept of it.</p>
<p>I agree with Uroogla. Brown does not recalculate GPA, as far as I know. They will look at your entire transcript along with the school profile – I think they are interested in what grades you earned, not what your GPA is. If your school ranks, they will use that information, too.</p>
<p>GPA is really useless (other than to rank). Students can inflate their weighted GPA by taking AP/Honors while other students at other schools can’t. It’s just a couple number with a period. You don’t need a GPA to tell who took the toughest classes and who did well in it. The transcript is what colleges look at. They look at the individual courses and the individual grade.</p>