99.4 Weighted GPA?

lalaloo6
Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:30:21 +0000

^^ Erm. I’m pretty sure your GPA doesn’t matter that much as a number, per-se. My school, for example, does not understand how to do GPAs: it says it is on a 4.0 scale, as 99s in all standard classes would be a 4.0, but when it calculates the unweighted GPA, it weights ALL the classes, so my unweighted GPA is a 5.048 on a 4.0 scale, which obviously doesn’t make sense. Since schools do such weird things, I think all that matters are your grades, course difficulty, and GPA IN RELATION to the highest GPA in your class. Just GPA alone seems like it’s not a measure of anything, as schools are so varied as to methods of GPA calculation, as well as GPA distributions, etc. So I wouldn’t worry about my GPA at all in your case. Just get the best grades you can, and leave the rest to the colleges, who will probably recalculate your GPA. Other than that, what CAN you do?