Yes…everyone’s weights GPA should have been higher if they took honors and AP classes…and no ones was. And no one said anything until I did.
Anyway…back to the OP. Ar you talking about weighted or unweighted GPA? What were your son’s grades?
how did you not catch that the gpa off was earlier if he was barely getting any As but somehow pulled 4.0+? something is definitely not right there.
Another possible variable here is that some schools use “Academic GPA” which is weighted but does not include non-academic classes, so A’s in health, PE, shop, art, and even band don’t count at all.
I also Reccomend that you create a spreadsheet so that you can understand and verify how his GPA was calculated My DD’s School calculates a weighted GPA that shows up on the report card every year. I have a spreadsheet ( started freshman year) verifying the calculation and also calculating the unweighted GPA. Unless your school calculates the unweighted GPA or there is no waiting, I can’t understand not having the spreadsheet so that you know what type of school and you should be looking up for your child.
Although OP appears to be gone, postmodern may have hit on the reason the college GPA is lower. Our HS uses the academic GPA for college, which does not include arts, gym, or certain other courses. It does, however, include independent studies even in things like TV production. That still wouldn’t explain such a large discrepancy, however.
Even if the parent is a hands off parent who doesn’t monitor any grades, period, the kid had to know what his grades were. Applying to service academies isn’t something one does on a whim, right? These are usually planned goals involving families. Getting to the point of the congressman contact without knowing the real GPA seems wholly unlikely. Is this tippy top high school private?
In support of OP - I calculated D’s GPA several times, myself, because HS GPA in transcript is different. On top of it, it is not clear how colleges calculate GPA, apparently this information is not disclosed.
When I learned that every teacher in my D’s school has his/her own way of assigning grade and rounding it up, with zero respect for the rules of math … I gave up. Every teacher, every college has its own rules of “math”.
<So you thought your child was getting 4.5 GPA even though he was mostly getting B’s and C’s, because Naviance or some unofficial grade report said so due to the school’s mistake, And now upset because the school fixed it back to the correct 2.7 too late?
And you had no idea that mostly B’s and C’s translate into 2.7 rather than 4.5 because it is very complicated system and the school did not train parents for that? >
Again, in support of OP - GPA calculation is very, very complicated. Especially, since it is not clear what grades are 1) weighted and which ones are 2)included. In our school, for example, PE is not included into the calculations (school announcement), but if a student made it “extraordinarily good”, then it is included as “A” … which is not helpful at all, because this A is not weighted and lowers the overall GPA. Who knew?! My D should have slacked at PE to improve her overall GPA! Who knew?!
Dual enrollment classes are a pain. There is no way to figure out (ahead of the time) if they would be counted towards GPA or not, and, if yes, how. Apparently, every college includes / excludes them at will.
My D is in 12th grade and I still can’t figure out her GPA. The number that school gives me does not make much sense. Whatever.
I agree that GPA calculations are not always straight forward, but I would think that OP would be aware if her son was getting B’s and C’s vs. A’s and B’s in his classes. It is not rocket science…