<p>Hi guys, I am just wondering what is the average weighted GPA (out of 100 plus weighting) is for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. My school does not use 4.0 we use the 100 then weight courses by levels. My weighted GPA is currently a 106.1, is this high enough to even bother applying to the school when it comes time? (I’m a VERY motivated sophomore in an ag-science high school btw)</p>
<p>It depends on how exactly your weighting system works, but at a first glance, 106.1 seems to be very competitive.</p>
<p>That honestly means nothing, first of all, what are each type of course weighted as? Secondly, my guess would be that Cornell would either convert to unweighted out of 4 or they would just look at each grade and class and not even convert.</p>
<p>In our school, we have 4 levels.
level 1 - (grade) x (1.00)
level 2 - (grade) x (1.05)
level 3 - (grade) x (1.10)
level 4 - (grade) x (1.15)</p>
<p>level 4 obviously is the highest level (honors/AP)</p>
<p>They really don’t care about they weighted GPA, they care more about the unweighted because they already expect that you took the hardest classes possible.</p>
<p>My son applied to Cornell and has a unweighted average(over his H.S. years) of a 98…I am not sure of his unweighted…but it seems that schools eliminate the weighted portion. I guess they look at the rigor of their classes…as a example my son is taking all college level classes in his senior year and has maintained a 98 - 99 average unweighted. He also took the Syracuse Bio Class in his junior year and got a 100…but not sure if that has any bearing on a high level school like Cornell.</p>
<p>My son’s guidance counselor told me that most competitive colleges do not take the HS weighted GPA verbatim, they recalculate a weighted GPA themselves based on the courses and their own weightings. I asked at one school, which confirmed this. In fact, at that school they had their own little wrinkles beyond that; eg they excluded freshman grades.</p>
<p>I’ve no idea what Cornell CALS does.</p>
<p>I believe that CALS recalculates unweighted dropping fluff classes</p>
<p>High schools have very different ways of calculating weighted gpa which means the high school weighted gpa doesn’t mean too much. Same colleges will recalculate based on their own formula (the UCs have well known published formula) and some will look at your classes and grades. Few colleges will just consider the high school weighted gpa.</p>
<p>Thanks so much guys! Also, does anyone know how Vocational Agriculture high schools are perceived by CALS?</p>