UVA is NOT a safety. Oregon- maybe. Have you researched this?
It is out of 4.5 - ( my son has a 4.0 UW)
most weighted gpas at school are around 3.9 or 4.0 for kids who go to competitive schools
Um… where would that be true? You are saying those are weighted GPAs for competitive colleges? Not sure thats accurate.
My son goes to a highly highly competitive private jesuit school, give out very few As
What state?
@jym626 Competitive means University of Michigan/ USC/ BU/ LMU level
California
Check those schools’ common data sets.
So the way my gpa is calculated is:
A, B, C, D
AP - 6,5,4,3
Honors - 5,4,3,2
Regular - 4,3,2,1
My freshman year, I made two B’s (apwh and Latin reg) (1 AP, 4 Reg, 4 Honors)
Sophomore year, I made 2 B’s Physics Honors and Chem Honors (6 Honors, 2 AP)
Junior Year, 6 AP’s all A’s (only took 6 classes)
So at the end of junior year, my gpa would be 111 weighted points / 22 classes, this would mean :
My weighted gpa is 5.045454545
And my uw gpa is 3.83333
How would your gpa be calculated?
How would my school’s weighted gpa system be converted to yours??
Not trying to steal the thread, just clearing my confusions
A-s, B+ count first of all
A in AP- 4.5
A in Honors - 4.25
A in Regular - 4.0
My son never got lower than that ever.
Since it is a Catholic school, they have several mandatory classes a year that are counted as regular (2 per/year) which lower their weighted GPA
How many AP’s regular and honors did your son take. 3 of my friends got a full ride to Tulane (one is an athlete). After I know his course rigor, it’s easier to judge
Unless they got the Stamps scholarship, they probably got a full tuition scholarship, not a full ride… They are not the same, but people often confuse the two.
AP’s are 5 points at my daughter’s school, so a 6 point scale isn’t something I’ve ever heard of. Kids with 4.0 plus can generally go to competitive schools with decent test scores. Ivies are going to be 4.4 and up with very high test scores. To the original poster does your school have naviance? A good way to compare apples to apples and see where kids at your school are getting in with your stats. U of O would definitely be a safety to me, kids with much lower stats getting in there.
I’m surprised how harsh people are being about a 4.2. That’s a strong gpa, and of course at some high schools its very difficult to go above that. I’ve taken the toughest course load at my school with only a couple Bs, and my weighted gpa is about the same as OPs son. OP, I think your son will get into at least one of those schools, but I would throw a safety on his list just to be safe.
The GPA is not the issue. The 30 ACT should be a bit higher to be competitive. And we don’t know what else is in this students’ application and resume. Grades are only a piece of the application puzzle.
This is what I keep talking about: http://www.wsfcs.k12.nc.us/cms/lib/NC01001395/Centricity/Domain/37/1516%20Page%202-9.pdf
Does that 30 ACT put him above the mid 50 at any of those schools? Don’t think it does for Tulane, GW or BU. So unless naviance shows kids from your schools getting into those schools at very high rates, those are not safeties. He still has a chance there, but certainly not a sure thing
If he likes Tulane, apply to SMU. January 15 deadline. Hurry