<p>(based on a 100 point scale.)</p>
<p>Here’s the standard scale: </p>
<p>A: 90-100 (4.0)
B: 80-89 (3.0)
C: 70-79 (2.0)
D: 60-69 (1.0)
F: 0-59 (0.0)</p>
<p>Add one point for honors/AP courses:</p>
<p>A: 90-100 (5.0)
B: 80-89 (4.0)
C: 70-79 (3.0)
D: 60-69 (1.0) <— no weight added to D’s or F’s
F: 0-59 (0.0)</p>
<p>So with the addition of honors/AP courses, does that make it a weighted average or not?</p>
<p>^ Yes… if you add 1 point for honors/AP courses, your result is your weighted average. But if you just disregard the honors/AP designations and use the A=4, B=3, C=2 scale, that result is your unweighted average.</p>
<p>All high schools vary the “weighting”</p>
<p>Some schools only provide a .5 bump for honors. Some schools do not weight at all.</p>
<p>Some schools consider an A+ (98-100) to be 4.33.</p>
<p>The UC system recalculates high school grades using a UC method which trows out 9th grade, all PE, all health. </p>
<p>There really is no one correct method.</p>
<p>What if your school already puts a weight on the AP class? Every grade in AP is multiplied by 1.1 for our final grade…so for example an 88 would be a 96.8. Should I average a 4 or a 5 for that value? =/</p>
<p>I would avg a 4 to equate to 96.8AP</p>
<p>89.5-100-A
79.5-89.4-B
69.5-79.4-c
59.5-69.4-D
59.4-0-F
My school gives an extra .2 for each honors course with an a or b but c’s don’t get an extra .2
and my school gives aps an extra .25 with an a or b, but nothing extra for cs</p>
<p>My school does the following:</p>
<p>This is the standard course scale:
A: 93-100 (4.0)
B: 86-92 (3.0)
C: 78-85 (2.0)
D: 70-77 (1.0)
F: 0-59 (0.0)</p>
<p>Add one point for honors courses:
A: 93-100 (5.0)
B: 86-92 (4.0)
C: 78-85 (3.0)
D: 70-77 (2.0)
F: 0-59 (0.0)</p>
<p>Add two points for AP courses:
A: 93-100 (6.0)
B: 86-92 (5.0)
C: 78-85 (4.0)
D: 70-77 (3.0)
F: 0-59 (0.0)</p>
<p>And they take the average of all your classes (so 3 A’s in APs, 2 A’s in Honors, and 3 B’s in APs is 6x3 + 5x2 + 5x3 = 43 and 43/8 = 5.375).</p>
<p>But, yeah, it’s evident that everyone does something different.</p>
<p>If each school calculates gpa in a different way, there’s no possible method for colleges to compare gpa…</p>
<p>so do colleges recalculate it based on their own methods then?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>That’s why class rank is so important</p>
<p>If you have a compiler for VB, I can send you a program that I wrote that will calculate your unweighted GPA, which is really the most important. It was meant for college courses, but it will work just fine for high school courses, too.</p>
<p>The replies so far have been very good … one comment … ask you HS what they consider the converation from a 100 point scale to an A/B/C scale … schools teach to their scale so your HS’s answer to this question is the one you should use if they can answer it.</p>
<p>jgraider got it right on there. Class rank is really what’s most important if your school provides it</p>