<p>I already submitted apps...now, I'm just looking back on my app and pondering some tidbits of it...</p>
<p>At my school, unweighted grades/classes goes A: 4.0, B: 3.0, C: 2.0, D: 1.0, F: 0.0 and weighted grades/classes goes A: 5.0, B: 4.0, C: 3.0, D: 1.0, F: 0.0. I had a 3.97 UW GPA/4.65 W GPA when I submitted apps. I listed my weighted GPA, putting it out of 5.0. Is this correct? Because now that I think about it, the 5.0 doesn't really seem accurate because it's nearly impossible to average out with that high of a GPA (past 4.5) with the number of weighted versus non-weighted courses we are required to take/are able to take at my school. My weighted GPA is the highest in school history if that is any indication of this. Should I have put it out of 4.0 instead? Lol.</p>
<p>Well, I guess then that I don’t understand weighting. Why would it be against a score of 5? I understand that the highest possible score on a weighting scale (like this) is 5.0, but isn’t that always as compared to a 4.0? Otherwise, what’s the whole point of weighting? Isn’t it to put everyone, taking into account the rigor of a course, on a relatively even playing field so that an apples-to-apples comparison can be made? The “apple” here being a 4.0? Maybe it’s just semantics, and I admit I’m not an expert on this.</p>
<p>It’s weighted because some classes are on a different scale from the base scale. The base scale is out of 4.0, so the weighted will also be out of 4.0.</p>
<p>I agree that the weighted should be on a scale of 4.0, not 5.0. Unless every class offered by the school is an AP or Honors class, it would be impossible to achieve a 5.0 GPA. How can you have a “scale” that’s unachieveable? The whole point of a “weighted” GPA is to differentiate between students who take a more rigorous schedule from those that take the standard curriculum. Every student at any given school has their GPA based on the “standard” scale but the students who take the more advanced courses have their efforts reflected in the higher GPA on the same scale.</p>
<p>Don’t worry, the schools weight your grades themselves as every HS does it differently. Not to worry. Your transcripts will tell then all the info they need.</p>
<p>redseven- that is what i used to think, but my friend told me that the highest possible gpa that you could get is a 4.8, since gym is not weighted. I’m confused now.</p>
<p>The HS in the district next to ours weights Honors and AP’s and does not count gym and some other courses. So for each 4.0 UW, it counts as 5.0.</p>
<p>Our district only weights AP courses.</p>
<p>I laugh when I read online that someone is applying with a 4.6, etc. This is GPA through Jr year only. </p>
<p>My son, who had UWGPA of 4.0, applied with a 4.32- that’s with 7 AP’s through Jr year (4.0 in every class taken). Upon graduation from HS, his final transcript showed a weighted GPA of 4.44 and that is with 12 total GPAs…4.0 in every class ever taken. (Honors and college classes taken through his HS not weighted at all.)</p>
<p>Hopefully you will see that the grades are important and not WGPA as much as you can’t compare school 1 to school 2.</p>
<p>Weighted GPA is less important, and the colleges know that every high school or district has its own system.</p>
<p>If you want to hear something really bizarre, here’s how my school district does weighted GPA:
All (ALL: regular, honors, AP, etc.) courses have the same core scale: A-4.0, B-3.0, etc… the same one we all know and love.</p>
<p>THEN, you ADD to that GPA (which is essentially your unweighted GPA): </p>
<ul>
<li>.08 if you get an A and it’s an AP course</li>
<li><p>.04 if you get a B and it’s an AP course.</p></li>
<li><p>.04 if you get an A in an honors course </p></li>
<li><p>.02 if you get a B in an honors course.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Example scenario:
A - Phys. Ed
A - AP Chem
A - English 4 Honors</p>
<p>= 4.00 + 4.00 + 4.00 = 12 / 3 = 4.00 (UW and base W). To compute weighted, add: .08 + .04 = weighted GPA of 4.12. Over the course of HS this adds up to some ridiculously high GPAs… I have a weighted GPA of 5.87 and am ranked 40th in my class. I’m fairly certain that our valedictorian has a GPA in the mid-6 range. </p>
<p>Imagine if you took just 4 AP’s per year and got an A in all of them, that’s an additional .32 added to your GPA each year. Which over 4 years is 1.28. If you get an A in everything, you have a 5.28 GPA without even taking any honors courses.</p>
<p>In this system, your weighted GPA is essentially limitless, provided you have infinite AP and honors courses available to take. I had a tough time on my apps indicating what my weighted GPA was out of, so I just put down “4” … what more could I do?</p>
<p>Look at the Threads I’ve made and click the one about a B+. My classes are listed there. Those that are Honors and AP = 5.0 to GPA per semester and those that are regular, including PE/Tennis = 4.0 to GPA per semester).</p>