Do Colleges ReCalculate GPA?

ucbalumnus
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:33:18 +0000

It is very unlikely that any college that uses GPA in admissions will use your high school’s notion of weighted GPA. State universities are likely to recalculate by their own method; very selective private schools using holistic admissions processes will likely just eyeball the transcript to see that you took a rigorous selection of courses and got mostly A grades.

Colleges that do use class rank as calculated by your high school do indirectly trust your high school’s notion of GPA, although only in comparison to other students from the same high school.