Why am I hearing colleges care more about unweighted GPA?

Applying to College
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<p>Seriously I could have taken regular classes and slept all year through high school and likely have ended with a 4.0 GPA. Regular classes are joke, the difficulty of them is basically none if you just do your homework.</p>

<p>I barely have around a 3.6GPA unweighted. So I am hearing basically that this is low now. So my above GPA of 4+ weighted means nothing and the effort to take classes that teach you more and are more challenging are looked down upon? Are we in "bizarro world" like Jerry from Seinfeld puts it?</p>

<p>I am a minority but I doubt that would help me ever get into the uni. I want to attend if my grades aren't up there. I can easily score a 34+ in an ACT and I still have to speak to my counselor about SATs since last time I checked my school only focused on the ACT. My weakness overall would likely be writing so I definitely should start checking out some classes to improve my punctuation and grammar usage apparently since I was just blessed with this fact from someone that I messed up my life by taking AP classes.</p>

<p>I am really hoping this was a joke but of course what better place to ask then a good reputable source like this site. So are they right about unweighted being actually looked at more closely when applying to a college/university?</p>

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<p>Um, they DO get to see your schedule. A 3.8 GPA with several AP classes is definitely more impressive than a 4.0 with no AP classes.</p>

<p>They just have their own methods of weighting stuff because schools have many different methods of weighting GPAs.</p>

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<p>They look at your unweighted GPA but also how many AP classes you took.</p>

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<p>Sure, that's what everyone says, but looking at how things turned out acceptance wise this year at my high school, I'd say the weighted GPA strength belief is a crock of bull.</p>

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<p>Because weighted GPAs are all different from school to school. Every college has their own system.</p>

<p>For example, most schools have Ds. Mine doesn't, so you fail at 69 and a C is a 2.0. Also, anything from 90 or above is 4.0 unlike many schools.</p>

<p>Weighted I have a 4.2 but at many other schools I'd have much higher because my school doesn't weight honors classes. So really, its a good thing.</p>

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<p>What is a weighted GPA? how does the school figure this out as opposed to your actual GPA? Do the colleges usually get to see both?</p>