<p>I'm only a freshman, but I was curious to what my current GPA would be.
Algebra 95 95 91
English 90 95 96
Spanish II 96 88 90
Biology 91 90 91
Global 96 98 100
I took Spanish I last year, does it count as a high school course?
I got an 86 in it, so
Spanish I 86</p>
<p>So what is it on a /100 scale and /4.0 please? And is this competitive to some colleges.
I'm also in the top 10%</p>
<p>it depends on your school and how they scale it. ask you guidance counselor</p>
<p>oooooooooooo</p>
<p>bump, its an easy question i just need help :(</p>
<p>We can’t answer, every school is different. For example at my school even though we know our percentage for each class each quarter, quarters combine with midterm/final grades and result in letter grades. Colleges never see our percentages. I don’t know of a single school that releases both GPAs (100 scale and 4.0 scale). Also some schools weight, others don’t. Your GPA will also be altered based on how many credits each class is worth. Go speak to a counselor if you want to know your GPA.</p>
<p>A is 4.0
B is 3.0
C is 2.0
D is 1.0
F is 0.0</p>
<p>Add them up and divide by the # of classes
You have 5 4.0s and 1 3.0
23/6=3.83, that is your unweighted GPA</p>
<p>Obviously this isn’t your official GPA, your high school may count it differently, and may not count your Spanish 1 class at all.</p>
<p>From what you have listed it would be a 3.88 but …</p>
<p>There are several things that could change it. First, you only have five classes listed. Is that all you are taking during your freshman year? High school usually counts all your classes whether or not they are core. Colleges may or may not count all of them. Also, if any of your classes, like biology, have multiple periods in one day then they would be weighted higher than those that don’t. In the future, if you take any AP or honors classes they would also be weighted.</p>
<p>Your GC may know or may not know how it is calculated. They probably do not know what it is right now since I doubt keeping a running tally is not their priority. Try talking to your algebra teacher. They should know and be able to explain it to you.</p>
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<p>No, it isn’t, for several reasons.</p>
<p>First, we don’t know how your school calculates GPA. Some schools use a 100-point scale, some use a 4-point scale, and some use something else. Schools that use a 4-point scale have differing cut-offs for A’s, B’s, C’s and so on. Some schools on a 4-point scale use pluses and minuses, while others don’t. Some schools don’t award any quality points at all for honors or AP classes, while others are incredibly generous.</p>
<p>Additionally, some people in this thread have been talking about colleges that will recalculate applicants’ GPA. It should be made clear that many colleges do this, and many do not. Moreover, among the colleges and universities that do recalculate applicants’ GPA, they don’t all do it the same way. There are over 4000 colleges in the U.S., including about 2500 universities and 4-year colleges, and they serve wildly differing populations. It shouldn’t be surprising that they don’t all do things the same way.</p>
<p>Another matter: whether Spanish I taken in middle school counts as a high-school course is a policy that’s set within your school system (or within your school, if you go to private school). My kids’ school shows credit for Algebra I, Geometry or first-year language when kids have taken them in middle school, but doesn’t record grades or include them in students’ GPA, but I have learned on College Confidential that many school districts and private schools operate differently.</p>
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<p>No, this is a significant part of what guidance counselors do. Part of their responsibility is understanding the academic policies of the school with respect to credits transferred in from middle school or elsewhere, and also to GPA and class rank, because these matters affect both college placement and graduation requirements. This is what they do. Your guidance counselor is the person to ask.</p>
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<p>Some colleges? Sure. Which colleges? It’s really too soon to say, when you’re in the ninth grade.</p>
<p>Edited to add: pubic schools where I live explain in detail how they calculate GPA (both unweighted and weighted) on the back of every report card. Have you looked at your report cards, or a student handbook, to see whether your school does the same thing?</p>
<p>Sikorsky - I had asked my GC what exactly was the formula when using the AP weight (ours is 0.10). I had a pretty good idea but wanted to verify it. He told me that he wasn’t sure what the formula is. I even had my dad ask a few months later and he still didn’t know.</p>
<p>Huh…and I just said in another thread that one shouldn’t talk in absolutes on College Confidential!</p>
<p>But, Mibsprincess, your story makes me absolutely sure your GC is a dolt.</p>
<p>lol. Enough said.</p>