How do "HONOR" classes help for admissions?

halcyonheather
Thu, 10 Apr 2014 23:19:04 +0000

Honors classes raise your weighted GPA, but some look at the unweighted.

Weighted and unweighted GPA are not on the same scale and shouldn’t be compared (i.e., a weighted GPA above 4.0 is not “better than perfect”). Selective colleges will either recalculate your GPA on their own scale or sort of eyeball your transcript to see what kind of grades you got overall…they don’t take any GPA at face value, especially a weighted one.