On what scale does your school weight your GPA?

halcyonheather
Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:33:33 +0000

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.