<p>I guess the grading scales are just different but it seems like most people around the country have very high weighted gpas. No junior has a 4.5 at my school. Maybe a 4.1 or 4.2 at most, and that is really the maximum possible. My weighted gpa is 3.71 and that is considered pretty good but not great considering my courseload. I take Ap lang, Us hist, and chem while most of my friends with slightly higher gpas take ap psych instead of chem which I've heard is much easier. I also had a horrible ap chem teacher. My gpa always seems really bad on this site but not as bad at my school. I just want assurance that colleges will take that into account. I also have a high sat score considering my gpa but my #1 college, UVa, seems to prefer high gpas to standardized tests but i always thought that was to assure people that they dont weight one day over the entire school year. My Sat score was 2100 and i think i could raise it next year before applications. Can high standardized tests and hard classes redeem a relatively low gpa?</p>
<p>sorry for the long post but that's everything that has been on my mind recently.</p>
<p>my school is pretty similiar, I think because a lot of schools give 1.0 for honors as well as ap's, In addition many schools have stupid honors classes like honors relgion and honors greek which boosts their gpas. Others take gym all four years where at my school it's only in freshman year</p>
<p>Which colleges are these? If they're in-state schools, I can understand this to some extent. Otherwise, I doubt that this is actually a common occurrence. </p>
<p>And at any rate, when most colleges are evaluating your GPA, they will look at the unweighted GPA. Weighted GPA is most often useful for giving you a class rank.</p>
<p>Most colleges indeed will know by your class rank when your high school has less grade inflation than others. Unfortunately, those that don't tend to be state Us that use a quantative approach (pure numbers) rather than loooking at the whole picture. I nknow this is the case with California state schools, but I don't know about UVA.</p>
<p>the gpas of the people in my class are ridiculous.
there are currently 3 people that have 4.0 unweighted gpas (weighted i would think they'd be about 4.7-4.8)
mine is like a 3.9/4.6, but i'm pretty sure the top 20 (people not percent) are close to this range as well.</p>
<p>but i would think that colleges would look at the gpa, class rank, and test scores together since gpas and how they're determined differ from school to school so i wouldn't worry too much.</p>
<p>my school definately has not grade inflation. damn tough to get an A in lit, but almost 10% manage straight As since around 80% of thes chool actually tries to get good grades. my talking and mind is fried right now. Just came back from pulling "weeds" (4-5ft) in the stupid estuary for community service under the hot sun.</p>