<p>I have 3.67 gpa and around 4.2 cumulative weighted gpa. Will college put more emphasis on the weighted or unweighted or both???</p>
<p>Unweighted. Weighted gpa could have different meanings depending on location and context. For example, the school I go to only gives one extra quality point for APs while others may give two. Some schools use a number scale while others use letters. So colleges really can’t fairly compare two completely unique gpa styles. </p>
<p>However, schools like Georgia Tech and the UCs (and probably a lot more) have their own gpa conversions scale, and they disregard your unweighted gpa so that they can measure both academic performance and course rigor at the same time. </p>
<p>unweighted</p>
<p>UW. They will either ignore the weighted GPA or reweight according to their own standards.</p>
<p>On the other hand…</p>
<p>Colleges put a lot of “weight” behind class rigor. If the delta between your UW GPA and weight GPA is high, colleges are likely to find that your class rigor was also high (though they themselves will likely be looking at the classes, more so than the weighted GPA to determine class rigor, or at least how the GC marked class rigor on your transcripts). It’s for this reason folks on CC want to know your UW and weighted GPA.</p>
<p>I think they’ll look at both. Every college I ever visited has firmly stated that their top criterion is academic rigor, and so they will probably take a student who had a 3.3 unweighted, with all Honors/AP/IB classes over a student who took a less rigorous courseload but earned a 3.8. That being said, they’d all like to see an unweighted 4.0 more than anything else. Many secondary schools, including the most elite private schools, do not weight at all. Some of them do not even identify AP or Honors classes on the principle that they believe all of their courses are highly rigorous and demanding. The college admission officers will apply their own methods to judging rigor. They usually look at a school’s profile to see, for example, if there is a correlation between AP courses and performance. You might get an A in AP history, but if few students from your school ever score over 5 on the actual AP exam, then the college will take that into consideration. Some colleges cap weighted GPAs. That might seem unfair to the exceptionally accomplished student, but it also recognizes that most schools have a limited selection of high-level classes, and usually limit the work-load. </p>