<p>@Apollo11 then how did you get above a 5?</p>
<p>@Woandering </p>
<p>My school would do this:</p>
<p>Freshman year:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.96</p>
<p>If I took 5 honors classes out of 8 total, that would make a weighted GPA of 4.27 [3.96+[[5*0.5]/8]]. </p>
<p>Then I started taking classes outside of school that my school weighted, but didn’t add to the divisor.</p>
<p>I think I messed up the calculation though.</p>
<p>Anyway, <a href=“Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E. ft. Snoop Dogg - YouTube”>Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E. ft. Snoop Dogg - YouTube, is pretty fun</p>
<p>@Apollo11
So you could add 5s and 4s, without counting the class in the divisor? Wow, really really wish we could do that. </p>
<p>Anyway it makes sense now.</p>
<p>Our school only adds 0.1 for Honors and 0.2 for AP. It barely makes a difference.</p>
<p>@Woandering </p>
<p>My school technically adds +0.4 per Honors, +0.56 for AP, and the total sum of weighting [i.e your weighted GPA - your unweighted GPA, then the sum of that difference for each of your 4 years] is added to your final UW GPA.</p>
<p>TL;DR I have ridiculous GPA.</p>
<p>BTW, I’m starting my first graduate level economics courses around the spring of 2015, so I’m excited.</p>
<p>@Apollo11 Well speaking in that way, our school would be be around 0.01 for Honors and 0.02 for AP. </p>
<p>@awakeningvenus Oops, that competition is for east coast only. I’m on the West. If you know any others, I’d love to hear it.</p>
<p>I wrote a really cool essay today about how historical revisionism mitigated the LGBT community’'s historical impact in Pre-Antebellum America. I liked it a lot.</p>
<p>Also, in other news, I signed up for more college classes at UConn, so that should be fun.</p>
<p>@Apollo11
Well, I wrote a similar essay (Effects of Historical Revisionism on the Team Rocket Grunt Community in Post-Pokemon America) while saving twenty people from a burning building while winning a Nobel Prize in College Confidential (I’m so amazing they made a new category just for me). Needless to say, I liked my essay a lot too. </p>
<p>I’d take more college courses too, but my professors have already conceded that I’m way more intelligent and accomplished than they can ever hope to be, so they kicked me out of class in their insecurity. </p>
<p>Did I mention my 7.0 GPA? Yeah, I have a 7.0 GPA. Unweighted. </p>
<p>Let that sink in. </p>
<p>@Woandering a little bit of grade inflation, but I worked my ass off for that 4.0. I barely scraped by with my APUSH class. And I got the job because my dad works at the company. It pays to know low people in high places haha xD. But I’m just glad that I don’t work in the same department because that would be weird. Met my coworkers today, they are some pretty awesome people it seems.</p>
<p>@autoexec Congratulations! As long as your school isn’t famous, among colleges, for its grade inflation, you’re fine. That job sounds exciting, and you are super lucky to have it. Good luck!</p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt sadly insecure teachers don’t make for great recommendations.</p>
<p>@Woandering </p>
<p>When I show adcoms my 7.0 GPA, they won’t care about the fact that I have no recommendations. </p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt <a href=“Ambitious Teen Earns Unbelievable 10.03 GPA”>Ambitious Teen Earns Unbelievable 10.03 GPA;
You got nothing on her </p>
<p>@SwaggyC </p>
<p>After sing her school’s calculation, since she went above the maximum of 5, I realized that I’d actually have about a 7.0 GPA [Paging @TeamRocketGrunt]</p>
<p>Also, based TRG, if you are trying to allude to me having some sort of CC ■■■■■ qualities, I have no idea what you’re talking about…</p>
<p>* Looks off to two state championships in two forms of debate, charity that removes landmines in Mozambique and the people at the CF center I helped start up.*</p>
<p>@Apollo11 </p>
<p>Well, after I turned in my essay to the insecure professors who let me back into class just so they could bask in my amazingness, my GPA shot up to a 10.8. I also broke the world record in writing the longest essay overnight. </p>
<p><em>Looks off to ninety state championships in debate and mock trial, ninety-one national championships in mathematics, charity that removes Mozambique’s people from Mozambique, and the starving children in Latvia who push through each day only because they want to be as awesome as I am.</em></p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt </p>
<p>BRB, got to go save starving Latvians from going to schools not even ranked by USNWR</p>
<p>When do you guys get out of school? I get out June 6th. Finals start on Friday and it’s periods 8 and 4 first. I don’t think I can handle an eighth period final on a Friday. Finals=death</p>
<p>@Apollo11 </p>
<p>Already got it covered. My awesomeness and high GPA act as a natural shield against unranked schools. </p>
<p>@TeamRocketGrunt </p>
<p>So basically, I just have to drop grade inflation and ISEF projects over Latvia, and I’ll win a Nobel Prize in CC? </p>
<p>@55al00m
School for me gets out the 20th…</p>
<p>No me gusta</p>
<p>Sigh, these New York snow days. We get out June 27th…</p>