At my high school, UW GPAs are on a 4 point scale but weighted GPAs can only go to 4.6 max… an A in an AP class is a 4.6 weighted at my school…I’ve seen people with higher GPAs than 4.6 on threads around here…I’m curious on how this works at other schools
Well, UW it is on a 4 point scale. Weighted it is on a 5.5 scale w/o A+s (AP = 5.5 for an A, Honors = 5.0 for an A, CP = 4.0 for an A). All required classes are factored into weighted gpa and you can exempt one non required class from your GPA each semester
mine is a 5.0 scale, with 5.0 being an A in AP, 4.5 being an A in Hn, and 4.0 being an A in regular. But no one can get close to 5.0 because you can’t take more than 4 APs a year.
4 for normal. 5 for honor and pre-ib. 6 for AP and IB.
Same as @iamnotironman
Our state has a uniform weighted policy where a 100 in an AP/IB class is a 5.875
4 0 UW
Weighted:
Academic : x1
Honors : x1.1
AP or ECE x1.2
My high school didn’t weight grades. They used the following scale:
A = 4.0 = 94-100
B = 3.0 = 85-93
C = 2.0 = 74-84
D = 1.0 = 65-73
F = 0.0 = 0-64
Normal classes out of 4. Honors on 4.5. AP out of 5. No IB classes offered.
An A is a 90-100. Some teachers will round up say 89.5 up to 90, some will even round 89.0 to 90. Some won’t round at all. Some don’t specify and just do it at their discretion if you’ve been a good student and might even try to look back on past assignments to see if they can recover a few points for you.
A B in an Honors class is a 4.0
A C in an AP class is a 4.0.
And I’m talking about all weighted scores.
I took 7 classes this year as freshmen. 3 regular, 3 honors, 1 AP and have a weighted GPA of 4.57.
Different schools use different scales. Colleges do their own calculations.
RP/Conceptual/Academic is a 4.0
Honors is 4.5 (5 points added to marking period/semester/final grade automatically)
AP is 5.0 (10 points added to marking period/semester/final grade automatically)
Rounding: >.45 is rounded to the nearest 1 (88.45~ 89)
A: 90-100 (A 4.0 UW GPA is 95<, a 3.9 is approx.94, 3.8 ~ 93, etc)
B: 80-89
C: 70-79
D: 65-69
F: <65
kind of hate my school because for GPA, we use the actual percentage of the grade. So for rank purposes and all that, every percentage point counts.
For a Pre-AP class, 7 points are added to your grade. So if you have a 95, it’s calculated as a 102. If it’s an AP class, 10 points are added to your grade. So if you have a 95 in an AP class, it’s calculated as a 105.
Yeah, not happy about it. at all.
@Almondjoy7 Weird scale. Might as well take AP since there’s only a 3 point difference.
@halcyonheather
that’s awful
I liked it because it was simple. The purpose of weighted GPA is to rank students fairly within a single school, but people discuss it outside this context and it often creates more confusion than it’s worth. For example, people on here will report their weighted GPAs without giving any context, as if these numbers mean anything without knowing how they’re calculated. Other people see weighted grades as a kind of extra credit—they think their 4.5 weighted GPA is “better than perfect” because they’ve taken 4.0 to mean “perfect” regardless of the scale, but obviously colleges won’t see it that way.
They dont
Weighted GPAs are always on a scale of 5 for my school. Nobody can obtain a W 5.0 tho.