GPA for Scholarship

goingnutsmom
Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:53:59 +0000

In your school district, a student who got all A’s (90 to 100) in all classes, and all of those classes are AP or equivalent - worth up to 5.0 each - could have a weighted GPA anywhere from 4.0 to 5.0. And an unweighted GPA anywhere from 3.2 to 4.0.
That is crazy, and puts students in your school district at a disadvantage compared to other students throughout the country.
We are in the same boat. The common appl only lets us choose a 5.0 scale, so our counselors send a letter, which we’ve never seen, explaining that our school’s weighted GPA is really out of 4.8, not the 5.0. They apparently also say our school is very competitive, but that doesn’t raise student’s reported GPAs.