How does your school calculate GPA for colleges?

2bizee
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:07:14 +0000

Thanks for the info. Yes, my daughter’s school includes ONLY junior and senior year grades in the GPA they send to colleges. And since Fall semester ends in January, that means after most application deadlines, so only junior grades will be included. Her grades were actually best in freshman and sophomore years, before all the AP courses kicked in. They only add 0.2 for AP and 0.1 for honors.

I have no clue why they would do this, it seems to put their students in a bad light. Of course, many colleges will recalculate, but it still is an inaccurate first impression for the admissions committee.