<p>I’m just curious, do all top notch colleges ignore plusses and minuses. i.e. All A’s are 4.0 and all B’s are 3.0</p>
<p>That would be true for calculating your UC GPA.</p>
<p>I understand that the UC’s have this policy, but what about these:
- All of the Ivy League Schools
- Stanford
- Duke
- Georgetown
- Northwestern
- Vanderbilt
- UVA
- Mich
- Emory
- Rice
- NYU
- USC
- Williams
- Amherst
- Claremont McK
- Middlebury
- Colgate
- Indiana</p>
<p>I doubt it.</p>
<p>There’s a lot of variation in how they do it. You can look all those schools up, if you want. Their websites will usually give you the info you want.</p>
<p>Every school has its own crazy policy, and the best suggestion anyone can possibly give you is just to IGNORE them. Your GPA is what it is. Get it as high as you can reasonably and healthily do, and let them whip out their own formulae. I drove myself crazy calculating weighted GPA, unweighted GPA, UC GPA, this-school GPA, that-school GPA, 10-11 GPA, GPA minus first semester of freshman year, 10-12 GPA…good Lord, and it was useless.</p>
<p>Some schools will weight by a full point. Some will weight honors and AP differently. Some won’t weight at all. Some will cap the weight. One school weighted honors by .1 and AP by .25. Some will count plusses and minuses. Some will ignore freshman year. It’s nuts. One note relevant to your post is that no, I do not specifically recall many schools that weighted plusses and minuses.</p>
<p>So really…I’m sure this isn’t what you’re looking for, but my advice is not to worry about it. There’s just too much variance to make calculation worth your while.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks student615. You bring up a good point. I just need to relax and do everything in my power to do my best academically, without compromising my well being.</p>