<p>i am utterly confused about how to weight gpa's! i've been searching online for instructions on how to do it, but i find them too vague. how do you weight gpa's? how do ap classes and honors classes factor into them? is your freshmen year included in weighing your gpa (since most colleges don't count your freshmen year)?</p>
<p>sorry if i'm posting this in the wrong place! and thanks for helping!</p>
<p>Every school has a different policy on weighted GPAs, so it depends where you go to high school. Lost of schools--probably yours included, else you'd know--don't do it at all. At my school, As in regular and honors classes are 4.0, while an A in an AP class is 5.0.</p>
<p>MorsVenit is right. Apparently there is no definite answer. I had asked this question here earlier and got similar responses.
I found that the colleges recalculate GPAs using A=4, B=3 etc. They drop + or - after the grade. That is A+ = A = A-. Then they look at the course levels (AP, Honor) to get a sense of the rigor. They also look at the school profile to see how many high level courses are offered and how many YOU have taken.
So, the bottom line is that we don't need to worry about the weighted GPA because the ADCOMS have their own methods of calculation. Just make sure you have all A's and have taken the toughest courses right from the freshman year! (Of course, I am kidding.)</p>