Did my school mess up weighted GPA?

DianeR
Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:15:50 +0000

Why don’t you just calculate what your weighted GPA should be and see if it agrees with the school’s figure? We can’t do the calculation because you don’t give us information on every course you’ve taken. I.e, you had a 4.25 average at the end of last year – this was the average calculated from how many courses in your first three years?

It doesn’t surprise me that one semester’s grades don’t raise an average much when added into six other semesters. If the pattern is the same for everyone, it doesn’t seem like a mistake. It is probably done automatically by computer once they input the grades.

It isn’t going to hurt you anyway if the calculation method is the same for everyone at your school. The weighted GPA is more relevant to class rank than to colleges. I believe they recalculate GPAs, if necessary, so that everyone is compared on the same basis. Not every school weights and not all who weight do so the same way.