I got a d+ in precalc

GuitarHusky
Fri, 08 May 2015 17:11:38 +0000

Yeah. 3.7 is around a 92% at the average high school.

A 3.1 is dealbreaking-ly low, so I would try to bring that up if possible. It’s fairly below their average accepted GPA of 3.76 (which is unweighted). Admissions is not an exact science at a school like UW, but they only value your story over numbers to a certain extent.

Like YoonMiRae said, UW won’t even look at your weighted GPA. It’s often inflated and is hard to use to analyze someone’s academic resume. When I visited UW last year, the admissions counselor told me that they re-calculate everything to the regular 4.0 scale and discount what she called “fluff” courses like art, shop, theatre, etc to level the analysis of all of the students. Colleges admire a rigorous schedule, but digging yourself into a hole by taking classes you can’t keep up with is different than that.

Try to pull that 3.1 up, and you should have a good shot.