<p>4.0 (10 characters)</p>
<p>Wow, I never heard of a class weighted as a 6. Learn something new here everyday. So do adcoms know what the HS's max is or is that where rank/percentile comes in? My DS has a pretty high weighted GPA (okay maybe not for CC, but should put him in the top 10% of his class at a competitive public school) but not so much his unweighted (a few Bs in APs) ... then you have the UC scale which only weights 8 semesters of honors/AP.</p>
<p>4.5 (uw)
But some teachers don't even give out top grades.</p>
<p>4.0 unweighted
5.0 weighted, but you could only actually get like a 4.7 because you can't really take AP classes 'til junior year.
And yeah, we don't have A+ grades either. A is the highest you can go.</p>
<p>4.33 unweighted, that being a 100% avg in all classes, which is impossible, given that PE gives a max of 95% and one must take 1.5 yrs of it. No weighing of APs or honors, btw.</p>
<p>Oh, well.</p>
<p>4.0 due to lack of weighted grades</p>
<p>4.0, school doesn't weight</p>
<p>I’m wondering about this as there are only so many AP and honors courses in my son’s school. Freshman year, they have only Honors Math and Honors Science. Every year a student must take PE (can’t be honors). Every student must take electives (can’t be honors except for band, and you can’t use band for all elective types).</p>
<p>There would both be the maximum GPA possible by a single student who got straight As and took every Honors and AP class possible (they are weighted the same at my son’s school). But it is a lot below 5.0, and can never be 5.0 in any particular year because PE is required.</p>
<p>Academic is a different story, academic weighted could have a maximum of 4.5 freshman year (Honors in only two academics available), and then be 5.0 weighted each year after that. But still no one could possibly have a 5.0 overall because of PE and electives. 4.6 is a reasonable guess for my son’s school as the highest weighted GPA.</p>
<p>If I had the time, I’d calculate it like this:
Find total maximum credits (assume no study halls)
Put in 4.0 for all PE classes, multiplied by the credit hours.
Put in 4.0 for all electives, multiplied by the credit hours.
Put in 5.0 for all AP or Honors possible.</p>
<p>4.875 would be the maximum every year if PE is required in your state.</p>
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