<p>I'm an IB Diploma candidate, my weighted GPA is a 3.8, but I don't know if Universities will look at that, or if they will just look at it unweighted. Come to think of it, I'm applying to University of Toronto and some other Canadian ones. Do they even look at GPA's?</p>
<p>I have no idea about the Canadian schools. In the US, many (possibly most) schools will ignore your weighted GPA, take your unweighted GPA, and run it through their own weighting formula to produce the number that they actually care about. For instance (I am not thinking of a specific school here; I just made this example up), a tech school might give disproportionate weight to math and science grades. Or a school might give each AP or IB class an extra grade point, but not each honors class.</p>
<p>They can't just look at the weighted GPAs that schools provide (though those are useful for determining class rank, if a school ranks)...they wouldn't be able to fairly compare applicants' GPAs. And unweighted GPAs don't take stuff like course rigor into account. This is why they use their own formulas.</p>
<p>They basically just look at your rank.</p>
<p>if a 2.9 makes you a valedictorian (which it never will lol), then a 2.9 will be = to a 4.0.</p>
<p>do you get it?</p>