<p>On GPA, we use a high schools GPA if it is a match to grades earned. In some cases, schools are on different scales, so we need to recalculate. If so, we calculate using academic courses, and we weight for Honors and AP course work. </p>
<p>so will they recalculate my gpa? because when my school which is in Baltimore does unweighted gpa they don't count honors,ap,gt etc.. when they calculate</p>
<p>Step away from the ledge. Was this something said or something written to you in a response to an email? I agree it’s a little confusing but I can’t imagine Temple does it any different than any other school.</p>
<p>Basically they’ll only use your overall GPA if you’re pretty consistent in all your classes (for examply: you can’t use an A in art to make that C in Geometry land your GPA at a 3.0). If you mostly get’s A’s, A-'s and B+'s across the board, then they won’t recalculate. Otherwise, if you have straight A’s in Art, Choir and Yearbook and C’s in History, Math and English - you’ve got a 2.0 GPA as far as the school is concerned. On the other hand, if you don’t weight and you’ve gotten straight A’s in all AP’s and Honors? They might give you a boost (but mostly they just unweight other people’s grades vs weighting yours).</p>
<p>I wonder if perhaps they are also saying that they will recalculate to bring your grades to a 4.0 scale, with additional weight for Honors & AP classes. Some high schools use a 6.0 scale. I can’t accurately describe it, but something to the effect of 4.0 for college bound classes, 5.0 for honors and 6.0 for AP.</p>
<p>I attended an Info session a week ago where the school said they recalculate using a 4.0 scale, adding .5 for honors and 1.0 for AP.</p>
<p>Not taking anything away from Modadunn’s reply above, but adding on to the first reply.</p>
<p>Basically, it is a college bureaucrat’s gobblygook for saying it uses GPA from high school if it is the same that the college is used to seeing, in that it uses a 4.0 scale with weighting added as long as it uses the same weighting system the college would apply. If the high school does not, such as it uses a 6 point system or weights differently, it will recalculate. The author of your email undoubtedly did well on the SAT CR section from which many learn how to write incomprehensible passages.</p>