I think almost all of the schools we looked at used an unweighted GPA in their decision making. We wish we had known this earlier as I probably would have had D take 1 or 2 fewer AP classes just to ease the stress level senior year (and yes I know that there are students that were able to handle tons of AP classes just fine – but just being honest- for us, it was stressful). It would have been better for her GPA to have an A in an advanced class rather than a B in an AP class.