<p>Okay, so I've seen different GPA scales on this site and I'm...so confused. So how do we calculate our GPA? I'm a sophomore and I want to know...our school has 4 for an A in an academic class, and 5 for an A in a preAP class. But do we find the average of our seperate semester averages every year? Or do we just add all of our grades ever together and divide it by the classes we took? Gosh, I'm confused...</p>
<p>I'll explain it to you. You have two gpa's. You have the Weighted GPA and the Unweighted GPA. The Unweighted GPA is blind to what classes you take, so therefore an A in an academic class is equal to an A in a honors class. The weighted GPA (which usually determines your class rank) gives an academic A 4 points while a Honors A 5 points. got it?</p>
<p>yes, for your semester average, you just add your grades (for unweighted, 4.0 is an A, 3.0 is a B, etc; for weighted add 1.0 to each weighted grade) and then divide by the number of classes that term.</p>
<p>at your guys' schools, are honors and APs weighted differently?</p>
<p>nopes. We don't have honors classes that AP classes cover. For example there are no Honors US History, Government, Eco...etcetc. There is however honors precal, honors english 1 and 2, etc etc</p>
<p>So in terms of weighted GPA, honors and AP are the same?</p>
<p>^ That depends on the school. APs are weighted, but not all schools choose to weight honors classes.</p>
<p>Okay, well after you find the averages of your semester grades that term...do you average it with the other semester averages?</p>
<p>It's different for different schools. In mine, we add up all the points we've recieve throughout high school (4.0 for an A in normal courses, 5.0 for an A in AP classes) and divide it by the number of classes and voila! our high school GPA.<br>
However, for each report card our semester GPA is given.</p>
<p>This is why schools include information about their grading scales with applications and also why class rank (if your school ranks) is more important than simply GPA. Not all schools weight or do so in the same manner, and of course AP classes are not the same difficulty from school to school. Standardized tests also reflect your abilities on a meaningful scale, especially SAT 2s if you take them. You can and should study for those!!</p>