808charlie

I saw on college ******* it says that It is recommended that you send your GPA but not required. If you have a bad gpa but awsome at everything else, how would not sending it hurt or help you? thanks!

lidusha

How would you not send your GPA? MIT requires your high school transcript. MIT can figure out your GPA from your transcript.

UMTYMP student

My understanding is that you need to send your transcript including whatever grades are on it. It the vast majority of cases that will involve sending your GPA. However, if for some reason you don't have a GPA [home school, school doesn't give grades, etc] MIT will still consider your application.

lidusha

But that's not at all a successful way of hiding your GPA, since MIT still can and probably will calculate your GPA from your transcript.

HPuck35

I could be wrong, but I always thought that colleges will calculate a GPA from your transcript whether you send them your GPA or not. High schools use several different formulas to calculate GPAs, so the only consistant way to compare them is to calculate it based on your own criteria.

808charlie

yeah, Sorry that was a stupid queastion. That's what I thought too that GPA and Transcripts were the same thing. I just saw that they were seperate things on college prolwer so I figured I'd ask