<p>After hanging around CC for three years or so, I've come to the conclusion that the GPAs tossed around by prospective college students on this forum don't amount to much so far as "chancing" goes. Of course, my conclusions have been known to be wrong before. I've decided to put my conclusion to the test by asking posters to convert a hypothetical NYS public school high school transcript to the 4.0 system. NYS uses the 100-point scale and most, but not all, public school transcripts reflect the UNweighted grade. So here is the transcript minus courses outside the academic core:</p>
<p>8th Grade: Spanish I (Honors) 88; Algebra (Regents) 96.</p>
<p>9th Grade: Spanish II (Honors) 93; Geometry (Honors) 94; Earth Science (Honors) 97; English 9 (Regents) 88; Global History (AP) 92.</p>
<p>10th Grade: Spanish III (Honors) 95; Trigonometry (Honors) 91; Biology (AP) 90; English 10 (Regents) 96; Global History (AP) 91.</p>
<p>11th Grade: Spanish IV (Honors) 94; Pre-Calculus (Honors) 93; Chemistry (Honors) 94; English 11 (Honors) 92; United States History (AP) 92. </p>
<p>So, what do think is the UNweighted and weighted GPAs should be for this hypothetical high school senior and WHY? </p>
<p>Note: In many NYS public schools AP Global History is a two-year course. The AP exam and the NYS Regents exams are given at the end of the SECOND year.</p>
<p>I think that is a 3.83 unweighted. 8th grade classes might appear on the transcript but aren't calculated in a high school GPA. My sons' school only weights AP classes, not honors, classes, but that's going to vary a lot school to school.</p>
<p>At my D's high school that would translate into a 3.82 unweighted and a 4.25 weighted. That doesn't include the 8th grade classes, which wouldn't count. At her school, honors classes and AP classes get an extra 0.5, and those number grades equated to 8 A's, 6 A-'s and 1 B+.</p>
<p>I am actually asking you top calculate hpow a COLLEGE would calculate these grades on a 4.0 scale. But that's OK as we are already seeing the discrepancies I expected.</p>
<p>Colleges that include Freshman grades, btw, are likely to include the grades from these two high school level classes. </p>
<p>At most NYS high schools -- not all! -- we use +/- in addition to letter grades to correspond with the numerical grade. For example, 97-100=A-, 93-96=A, 90-92=A-.</p>
<p>I think most colleges will calculate the GPA the same way both mdoc and I did. I don't think any college will include a grade from 8th grade, although I understand that these classes do appear on the high school transcript.</p>
<p>hudson: when I was a LI high school student in the dark ages, the numbers you list above were already weighted onto my transcript....I don't remember what the actually point additions were but I'm 100% sure that is how they were posted. I now live in NJ and using the A-F system my kids transcripts only reflect each course grade as an unweighted letter grade. The GPA is weighted (as mentioned above), but we cannot give you a good estimate of how these #'s would be converted on a 4.0 scale unless these are raw, unweighted averages in each class. My bad if they are; then the above analysis is very accurate.</p>