How does your HS report GPA?

ucbalumnus
Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:23:51 +0000

Some colleges take high school GPAs at face value, so having an exaggerated weighting system may be helpful at those colleges (e.g. University of Alabama for the 3.5 GPA frosh scholarship threshold).

Some colleges use class rank, so your high school GPA calculation matters, but only in comparison to other students in your high school.

But some other colleges recalculate their own way, or holistically look at the courses and grades in your record, so that the high school’s GPA calculation is not relevant.