<p>Strictly speaking, if you judged people by only their unweighted GPA, what would be the lowest you could have and still have a great GPA? Just looking for a simple answer. I don’t need explanations or arguments against the importance of this. </p>
<p>That would depend on what you considered great – and of course, everyone has a different opinion of what a great GPA is. Personally, I think 3.8+ is a great UW GPA.</p>
<p>Depends on what scale it’s on and how much grade inflation the school has. 3.8 on a 4.0 scale would be good almost anywhere. </p>
<p>3.75+</p>
<p>3.9+ out of 4.0. But I’m pretty sure our school has grade inflation, basically top 50% of sophomore class has this.</p>
<p>3.8 I’d say…depending on what classes they are taking of course.</p>
<p>3.7+, but i’m guessing it depends on the school you attend and courses.</p>
<p>3.9+ because of the rampant grade inflation and bump ups by teachers.</p>
<p>4.0 </p>
<p>I hate 4.0 scales. There are too many to judge from. On a 100% scale, id say that 90 is the cutoff for UW when taking the most demanding schedule. If you are taking the most easy schedule available, 95 is probably the cutoff</p>
<p>@AnnieBeats </p>
<p>I’m talking about unweighted. Nothing can get over 4.0. Basically you said UW cutoff is 3.6 while for easier classes it’s 3.8.</p>
<p>I know that. But advanced courses are factored into unweighted GPAs. They just aren’t given any extra weight. I didn’t basically say that. On the College Board GPA scale, 3.6 is less than 90 on a 100% scale. So I prefer the 100% scale because they are rather self explanatory </p>
<p>3.8 is typically considered the cutoff for a good UW GPA where I’m from. </p>
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A GPA on a 4.0 scale cannot be directly converted to a GPA on a 100-point scale (or any other scale), and vice versa. You get different results depending on what the individual letter grades were. [url=<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1658192-great-uw-gpa-cutoff.html]This[/url”>"Great" UW GPA cutoff? - High School Life - College Confidential Forums]This[/url</a>] refers to grades in individual classes.
Unweighted GPA doesn’t have to be on a 4.0 scale. Unweighted just means advanced classes aren’t given extra weight. </p>
<p>@halcyonheather </p>
<p>I understand your first point, but for the second I was trying to clarify that it doesn’t matter that people have different 4.0 scales because it’s unweighted.</p>
<p>3.8+/3.9+</p>
<p>3.8, but honestly, I think it matters a lot which classes you’re taking. It wouldn’t be very great with standard classes, but with honors and AP it’s pretty good.</p>
<p>I hate the 4.0 scale too… At my school a 4.0= 100 so whenever I see CCers with 4.0s I always forget that their gpa just means straight A’s. As for the cutoff, I’d say a 94 but it really depends on the classes one takes. </p>
<p>The gpa scale where I live is not that generous. You need a 96 or above for a 4.0. So I’d have to go with 3.75 but considering your gpa is cumulative, that might be pushing it. </p>
<p>Depends on the school lol.
e.g. for mine a good gpa would be a 4.0 with APs–
around 25% of the school has straight a’s, and many of them are taking 1~4 aps, I kid you not.</p>