<p>Do colleges use weighted GPA or unweighted GPA for admissions?</p>
<p>Usually both are factored. Most have their own secret formula.</p>
<p>The top colleges throw the weighted GPA out, the adcoms basicallly refuse to look at your application transcript till some guy translates all the mumbo jumbo weighted grades into real grades. The top colleges "expect" the highest grades (3.7+) in the hardest possible AP-infested workload, so in that case they do not bother with weighted gpas</p>
<p>So for instance, by comparison, would my 3.5-3.6 unweighted GPA or my 3.6-3.65 weighted GPA be stronger/better for me?</p>
<p>In that case, unweighted would be stronger because your weighted boost isn't much. They would definately consider both though.</p>
<p>They really can't look at weighted unless they re-calculated the same way like the UC's do. For example, our local high school uses the UC system weighting (5.0 for only certain honors and APs.) Another nearby high school gives 5.0 weighting for ALL honors clases.</p>
<p>Most schools do NOT look at weighted GPA. They look at unweighted GPA alongside the courses taken, the rank of the student, and the school profile.</p>
<p>I have a similar question.</p>
<p>My school weights grades (for GPA calculation only - they show up on the transcript differently) by 1.04 for AP classes and 1.02 for Honors Classes.
Is this pretty heavily weighted/lightly weighted/moderate?</p>
<p>Anyone know?</p>