<p>I heard that colleges look at your Junior year much more than your freshmen and sophomore year. Is it true?</p>
<p>One more thing: is GPA calculated by averaging the average GPA from each year?</p>
<p>As I understand it, you are correct on both questions.</p>
<p>Junior year is usually important. Stanford for example doesn't even count freshman year. I suspect that different schools look at GPA differently. I know that many do their own calculations, with their own weighting, and only count courses of interest to them.</p>
<p>Remember that colleges also look at grade and class trends (how well you did and if you continued to challenge yourself, respectively) from freshman to junior year.</p>
<p>Would this look good?
Freshman year GPA: 3.5
Sophomore year GPA: 4.1
Junior year GPA: 5.5 ( if i make A's since i'm taking 7 classes and 4 are AP's and 3 are Honors)</p>
<p>If i average them i get around a 4.6</p>
<p>BB,</p>
<p>YOur trend is based on what grade point scale? Is it weighted? what is your unweighted GPA year over year? Has the same gradepoint scale been used year over year? Keep in mind that many highly selective schools don't weigh grades because there is already an expectation that you are taking or should be taking the most rigerous courses yoru school offers.</p>
<p>what gpa weight does your school use?
damn, I wish GPA's were regulated --- schools say they know individual schools and how difficul classes are, but how can they possibly have that much insight?
Anyway, even without knowing how grades work at your school, your trend looks appropriate for a motivated kid, but what is your final unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>The scale for my school is:
Level class: 4.0 for an A
Honor/preap: 5.0 for an A
Ap class: 6.0 for an A</p>
<p>i don't understand by "weighted or unweighted"</p>
<p>So how do you think according to this?</p>
<p>my school makes honors courses still worth the normal gpa. 4.0. only aps and one honors class give the grade boost. therefore no such thing as over a 5.0</p>
<p>our school...4.0 is a 4.0 regardless of honors, or AP</p>
<p>Can anyone explain what Weighted and unweighted is? Please?</p>
<p>Answer to your second question: No schools do not average your annual GPAs to calculate your cumulative. They average the GPA's you got in each individual class throughout high school. For example, I took an extra class sophomore year, so that year weighs slightly more in my GPA.</p>
<p>do colleges factor grades in courses in religious studies (lets say that a particular university is not a religious university (eg University of Michigan) as opposed to a religious university (Yeshiva University)?</p>
<p>weighted means that extra points are given due to the rigor of the course. for example: Your school uses a basic 4 point scale but gives extra credits "weight" for honors and AP courses.</p>
<p>You stated that your school weighs using the following scale</p>
<p>Level class: 4.0 for an A
Honor/preap: 5.0 for an A
Ap class: 6.0 for an A</p>
<p>this means an extra point is added for an honors course and 2 extra points are added for AP. the gpas for the honors and AP classes are weighted. so depending on the grades in which honprs/ap courses are given they will determine your rigor.</p>
<p>If you were applying to stanford, they would look at your grades(10 through 12) using the following criteria:</p>
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We will look at your choice of coursework and your performance in 10th and 11th grades in the core academic subjects of Math, English, Social Studies, Science, and Foreign Language. We want to see that you have challenged yourself by taking some of the accelerated, honors, Advanced Placement, or International Baccalaureate courses, if they are offered at your school. We will re-calculate your GPA on an unweighted 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>We also take into consideration differences in school environments. Through experience and research, we know that a lower GPA at one school may be stronger than the highest GPA at another school. We look to see how you have done within your unique school environment, how you have taken advantage of what was available to you in your school and community. Typically our admitted students have unweighted GPAs in the range of 3.6-4.0 and are within the top 15% of their high school classes, for those schools that rank.
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<p>Many colleges will have a recommended high school curriculum. Many selective schools look for students to take course work which consists of :</p>
<p>English: four years, with significant emphasis on writing and literature.</p>
<p>Mathematics: four years, with significant emphasis on fundamental mathematical skills (algebra; trigonometry; plane, solid, and analytic geometry).</p>
<p>History/Social Studies: three or more years. Such courses should include the writing of essays.</p>
<p>Science: three or more years of laboratory science.</p>
<p>Foreign Language: three or more years of the same foreign language. Your study of a foreign language ought to include the development of four basic skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening comprehension.</p>
<p>When looking at grades and schools that recalculate GPA these are the scores that are looked at (many will not factor in grades given in religion, band, etc)</p>
<p>I am really confused on how schools figure a class rank. My school gives the same credits for honors and non honors courses but APs are worth 1 extra point. Does class rank purely your weighted highschool gpa? Is it about the number of credits that you take. Say I took an extra course during the summer, would I get more points for taking that? Also, do community college courses taken during highschool count towards your highschool gpa?</p>
<p>Thinkband:</p>
<p>Class rank and the weighted vs. unweighted GPA system are different at every school.</p>
<p>1) I believe class rank is based on weighted GPA. It is supposed to be a better indicator of how students compare, because an honors/AP student deserves a higher class rank than someone with the same letter-grades in 'cake' (easy or blowoff) classes.</p>
<p>2) It is not dependent on the number of classes you take- that is to say, you won't have a higher weighted GPA just because you took more classes than someone else. As I understand it, when calculating GPA the GPA for each class is added together then divided by the number of classes for an average. </p>
<p>3) At my school summer courses and college courses do not count towards cumulative GPA at all.</p>
<p>Hope that isn't too confusing. :)</p>
<p>Class rank is figured differently at different High Schools so it is up to your school as to how they figure it. I have to say, it cracks me up how everyone on these posts talks about their not so great freshman and sophmore years and then figures in what they "project" their junior year will be....anyway, that's another rant, a lot of schools don't look at your freshman grades, but don't forget that those same schools don't look at your elective grades so go ahead and toss out those As in Art History, Driver's ed, etc. before you figure that you might have a 5.5 by junior year....</p>
<p>haha! i didnt know that there were schools where drivers ed was actually considered a class. that's hilarious! </p>
<p>tryin's grade in driver's ed: B+?????</p>
<p>If your school has a class rank and weighted/unweighted grades, colleges claim to look at whichever class rank puts you in a better light. I personally go to a school that has no class rank because it's way too competitive at my school. You have a 3.7 unweighted, and I think it drops to down to 70th percentile. I can't even imagine what a 3.7 weighted is -- 50th?
Community college courses only give you credit, not GPA. Only high school courses count.</p>
<p>I didnt see this answered, but then its really late, so I might have missed it... If that is the case, sorry.</p>
<p>Will a private colleges with no religious affiliation include grades from religion classes in your gpa?</p>
<p>Do public colleges, (like the UC's) include religion grades in your gpa?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>