GPA for Scholarship

goingnutsmom
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:22:55 +0000

hope- I can not imagine your counselor is correct.



@vlines: I am sure their counselor is correct. We are in a school district that calculates GPAs exactly that way: 90 in a regular course is 3.0, 90 in an AP course is 4.0. If a student averages 95 while taking the school’s regular mix of AP/non-AP courses, then their unweighted GPA is 3.5 out of 4.0.

Thanks so much for the College Board GPA conversion link. Unfortunately, the school transcripts will report a much lower GPA for @Hope4future and our senior. Why would a scholarship take a self-reported higher GPA over the official transcript GPA? We can only hope they digitize all applicants’ grade data and then recalculate GPAs themselves for some reason.