Faithful101

Hey guys,
This is kind of a stupid question, but how do you figure out you're unweighted GPA? Like what grades=4.0 etc etc.

Faithful101

anyone.. pleaseeee..?

sar

http://em.tsu.edu/admissions/gpac.asp

If you're on a 100-point system, divide your score by 10 and use "10" for "select current scale." It will show you your score on a 4.0 scale.

suman

hey unweighted to make it easier is basically this scale:
A - 4.0
B - 3.0
C - 2.0
D - 1.0
F - 0

do that for all ur classes, add em all up, divide by number of classes...that's it

shermie331

this is much more lenient then the princeton review scale. Which one is right?

Ayesha

Okay first of all...

UW GPA, faithful. Are you asking for calculating the UW high school GPA or the UW college GPA?

Calculating either lead to different results.

cooljoe

By the way, when you're applying to colleges (especially the Ivies), how do they recalculate your GPA? Do they give you one point extra for every Honors/Pre-AP/AP course?

Faithful101

UW high school GPA

wkdkor.9

bumppp. can someone explain this please?

is unweighted without the extra points for ap classes and stuff?

you'llsee...

^ Yes, unweighted gpa is without the extra points for AP classes.

bluedevilmike

Okay.

With respect to this question, two things matter in college admissions.

1.) What grades did you get? How many of them are A's, B's, etc. This is your unweighted GPA.
2.) How hard were your classes? How many of them were AP's, Honors, etc.

Weighted GPA is a frankly lazy and inaccurate way to combine the two factors together into one number. It is a very poor measure, because not all AP's are equally difficult, not all schools offer the same number of courses, some schools are just harder, etc.

From what I have seen, top-tier schools consider the two factors separately, which is the proper thing to do. Duke ranks students on a 1-5 scale in each of those two categories (that does not mean that they are given the same importance). "Hardest course load available" gets a 5 for difficulty; 4.0 gets a 5 for grades; there is no need to "weight" the GPA based on number of AP's, etc.

Collegeconfidential students tend to focus much more on weighted GPA. In the context of an Internet bulletin board, this is probably correct, since most students will assess their own courseload as "very difficult" even if this is not the case. Since universities have access to much better information -- including details provided by college guidance counselors as well as a historical context of that high school -- there is no need for them to do the same thing.

hmmmmmmm

Do most colleges take freshman GPA into account when calculating UW and W?

bluedevilmike

... yes.

blupowerade

Do colleges look at UNWEIGHTED or WEIGHTED GPA more when looking at your application?

ajibike

I believe they look at the unweighted.