Acceptance to Ivy Leagues... GPA??

MangoLover11223
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 06:37:00 +0000

Hey guys,

So I have a question that came up with my counselor when we were talking about colleges, and it’s about GPAs in relation to Ivy Leagues. This is my counselors first year, so she doesn’t know too much, so any feedback would be great.
When we were discussing which colleges I should apply to, the subject of GPA came up, and after some quick research we found the folllowing to be the average GPAs of those accepted to Ivy leagues (we searched up Ivy Leagues because of the extensive amount of students that attended them from my school last year, so we had something to compare to)

After 10 minutes we came up with the following list

Brown… 4.8
Columbia… 4.16
Harvard…4.10
UPenn…3.93

Etc,etc,etc.

This may sound like an obvious question, but is this unweighted or weighted GPA? Our school averages a 4.7 Weighted, which is pretty high in comparison to the gpa of those accepted to the Ivy’s. I mean, I know it’s a holistic process, but having a 4.7 W makes you pretty competitive right? Anyways, that’s my train of thinking, which is why I’m confused about the whole GPA UW and W for Ivy’s.
Thanks!