<p>the weighted gpa doesn’t go up to 5.0, it goes up to a 7.0 atleast at my school, the val, this year has a 6.8 wieghted gpa.</p>
<p>^That’s also interesting–if colleges looked at weighted GPAs they’d have to compare 5.0 to 7.0 to 4.5 scales, it would be too much standardization.</p>
<p>Murasaki, you sound very confident about your information. Are you an admissions officer with inside knowledge? I’ve perused a number of websites and found quite a bit of variation in published policies. In the UCalifornia system, for instance (with which I’m more than passing familiar), weighted GPA is very specifically determined; i.e., California high schools report weighted GPAs according to UC-determined rules. Berkeley uses a little more discretion, but the other UCs use a set formula. This extends to automatically admitting the top 4% of each high school’s graduates according to that stated weighted GPA formula.</p>
<p>Colleges that use class rank as an admissions factor are also, by definition, using the high school’s weighting policy. Fortunately that’s fairly rare, because as I think we can all agree, class rank is a poor indicator of a student’s merit. Still, there are colleges that like to brag about how many valedictorians matriculated, without much concern for the overall quality of the high school.</p>
<p>Does Stanford recalculate BOTH unweighted and weighted GPA?</p>