<p>I am having a tough time understanding how GPA is calculated or recalculated for that matter in college application.</p>
<p>I have all As on my transcript, but it says 4.5 for my GPA. However, we have this really odd scaling system, so I scaled it to a normal weighted grades one of 4.0 for regular and 5.0 for nonregular (AP, honors). </p>
<p>Is this how colleges do it? Or do they totally unweight it?</p>
<p>I have a lot of AP classes adn I don't want them to be wasted.</p>
<p>For unweighted GPA, an A is worth 4 pts, a B worth 3. Weighting varies by school (our HS gives an additional 0.2 weight for AP and 0.1 for Honors). That is one reason many colleges do their own weighting or use unweighted.</p>
<p>i’m guessing assuming this is any given semester with 3 aps, and its based on a 4.0 scale. for aps generally speaking you add 1 extra point. if you took 6 courses your gpa for that semester should look like
class 1 4
class 2 4
class 3 4
class 4(ap) 4+1=5
class 5(ap) 4+1=5
class 6(ap) 4+1=5
that would add up to 27. 27 divided by 6 classes your gpa is 4.5</p>
<p>Wait, so for colleges, they just look at A’s and B’s regardless of what type of class you take? (Honors, CP, AP, IB, etc.)</p>
<p>Do colleges have a different A/B/C system? Like 91-100 for A’s?</p>
<p>Schools look at all grades. I used A and B as examples (C is worth 2, D is worth 1 and F=0). For %, once again it depends on the school. Our school cutoff for an A is 93. As far as the classes, it depends on the school. Some look at academic core only (no PE or Band/Chorus).</p>