How GPA works?

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Hi everyone! I’m an Italian High School student, and next year I’ll study abroad in US (12 grade).
Since I want to study physics at university in America, I would like to understand how GPA works.
Here in Italy we do not have GPA, so my principal questions are:

  1. Does GPA depends only on last year grades?
  2. If not, how is calculated an international student’s GPA ?
  3. What’s the difference between Unweighted and Weighted?
  4. You have to get all As to get a perfect GPA?
  5. How APs influence GPA score?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Colleges take your cumalitive GPA, which is all of high school.
  2. That's really up to the school you are going to. I can't give you much information on this.
  3. Unweighted is the grades straight, regardless of level. A=4, B=3, etc... Weighted is affected whether the class is academic/honors/AP.
  4. Yes.
  5. It only affects your weighted GPA.
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That’s perfect! Thanks :slight_smile: