Did my school mess up weighted GPA?

gcards1
Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:36:57 +0000

I recently saw my weighted GPA after first semester (we have a semester system for when grades actually count) and was surprised to see it didn’t go up as much as I thought it would.

I had a 4.25 weighted GPA at the end of last year (I have 4.0 uw). My GPA after first semester junior year was 4.13, then second semester was 4.25. Last year I had 6 classes that received credit. Five of them (IB) earned a weighted GPA of 5.0 for an A. One of them earned just a 4.0. My current weighted GPA is now 4.34, but this year I had 7 IB weighted classes (5.0) and no 4.0 weighted classes. I know that it becomes harder to raise one’s weighted GPA as it gets higher and higher, but it seems to me that something is wrong. The extra IB weighted gpa credits should have nearly made up for the decreasing return, but it didn’t. I figured I’d graduate with around a 4.45 or + with all A’s, but at this rate (one of my ib weighted credits was only for first semster) I will barely break 4.4. Usually, students in full ib with straight a’s have above 4.45’s.

I know it’s not a big deal, but I’m just wondering if my school goofed (I wouldn’t be surprised). This pattern appears to be similar for other high weighted Gpa seniors in my school.

Does this make sense?