<p>Hi!
I’m new to college confidential so I’m kind of finding my way around. I was just wondering, what is a weighted and unweighted GPA? How are they calculated? I appreciate any help given and thank you in advance!</p>
<p>Hi! Welcome to College Confidential! 
Your unweighted GPA is your GPA with no extra weight added on for Honors, AP, IB, or Dual Enrollment courses. So, if you get a C in a class, that C will be factored into your unweighted GPA. Whereas with a weighted GPA, for any higher level course you take, you can either get an extra .5 or even 1.0 factored into your GPA. So, say you took a Dual Enrollment course and got a C; they would bump that C up to a B, being that it is a higher level course, and that B would be factored into your weighted GPA. It sounds complicated, but it really isn’t. Did that make any sense? Haha. Hopefully I helped!</p>