do i have a good chance for tech?

G.P.Burdell
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:44:33 +0000

I think he means both students took AP classes:

Student A: 3.50 GPA, 32 classes, 5 AP, his school does not weight
Student B: 3.65 GPA, 32 classes, 5 AP, his school gives +1 to AP

What Tech does is this:

Student A: 3.50 + 5/32*0.5 = 3.57 GT GPA
Student B: 3.65 - 5/32 * 1 + 5/32 * 0.5 = 3.57 GT GPA



No, GP, I’m pretty sure most Georgia schools inflate grades as their unweighted GPA, even though it is slightly weighted. For instance, if you get an A- in AP Chem, teachers are required to make the final grade an A+.



Schools report when this is done, and the grades are adjusted. GT has been admitting students for 125 years. They know how it works.

If a school tried to sneak something in like that, and Tech didn’t find it, it would either show up in class rank, students would apply with a >4.0 GPA, or (as a last resort), Tech would track students coming from that school with certain GPAs and know that School X’s 3.65 perform about the same as School Y’s 3.50 students in their first year at Tech.

Tech does track performance by school (especially in Georgia where they have plenty of data for each school), state, and city.