<p>So, I tried looking up the highest ever GPA, and this is what I found. Wow.</p>
<p>[Hillsborough</a> senior earns 9.3079 GPA, shattering record](<a href=“http://tbo.com/news/hillsborough-senior-earns--gpa-shattering-record-409927]Hillsborough”>http://tbo.com/news/hillsborough-senior-earns--gpa-shattering-record-409927)</p>
<p>I now feel extremely inadequete.</p>
<p>But, how, isn’t the highest (at least for me) a 5.0 weighted?</p>
<p>They must have a really exaggerated scale because at my school, the highest one can get is a 4.5 - and that’s assuming that you receive all A+'s in your high school career and you never take a non-AP course, which is impossible.</p>
<p>Maybe I’m simple minded or whatever but that doesn’t make me feel inadequate. I’m still very proud of my 3.75, lol.</p>
<p>Some GPA’s are taken on a scale of 1-10. He may have gotten a 9.3 out of 10, which is still very impressive .</p>
<p>“Highest GPA ever” doesn’t mean anything because the highest possible GPA is limited by whatever the scale is. This is obviously not on a 4.0 scale. On a 4.0 scale, the highest possible GPA is 4.0.
I mean, if I got a 1500 on the SAT and a 36 on the ACT, would you say my SAT score is better because it’s a bigger number?</p>
<p>At my school you can’t get above a 4.00.
Even with APs, Honors, or college classes.</p>
<p>Well, they did mention 4.0s in the article. They didn’t say what system they were on, though.</p>
<p>Also, judging by his GPA and the fact that its a weird decimal, he probably doesn’t have the highest GPA possible. The scale is probably out of 9.5, because I doubt the school’s scale is out of 9.3079 or whatever.</p>
<p>It says he hadn’t received a B since the ninth grade. Which means he got a B in the ninth grade.</p>
<p>What a tragedy. A lone B wouldn’t drop it from a 10 to a 9.3 or even a 9.5 to a 9.3 - he probably got a few A-'s up in there, too.</p>
<p>Probably
Points earned for class (5 + 3 + 4…)/ # of required class. So additional classes he took would be extra.</p>
<p>I agree with Preamble. I’ve seen various people on the forums with varying scales. His scale is obviously on a different level since that’s not even possible. The college doesn’t even seem that prestigious and they really must curve their grades like crazy if that’s even possible. There’s no away in the world someone would have that high of a GPA without a multitude of curves. Considering the fact that they curve do much may just as well say how easy that school is.</p>
<p>An as so, I’m still proud of my 95.4 GPA so I couldn’t care less :)</p>
<p>“The college doesn’t even seem that prestigious”</p>
<p>Rice is not prestigious? Really now?</p>
<p>actually I had a 78 GPA in middle school</p>
<p>that’s the highest GPA ever received at Hillsborough. Not the highest GPA ever.</p>
<p>My bad?
@ Tomatox
What’s that supposed to mean?</p>
<p>my GPA was through the roof man idk what happened now it’s 0.2…</p>
<p>But aren’t you taking AP classes and stuff now and you’ve entered some completions and John Hopkins summer program? Whats going on?</p>
<p>And I thought coming to CC was enough to make me feel inferior…</p>
<p>In any case, I don’t think it’s weighted on a 10.0 scale because of how awed the article makes everyone sound. Besides, who compares a grade on a 4.0 scale to that on a 10.0 scale? The school’s probably just ridiculously liberal with their AP/honors weighting.</p>