Weighted GPA?

Kelvas
Tue, 05 May 2015 02:41:05 +0000

Hello,

I just have a few questions regarding weighted averages. My high school only submits weighted averages and we use a 100 point system. My HS puts very little weight on honors (+2) and APs (+5) compare to that of other schools that use 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0.

As far as I can tell, different HS use their own system that they see fit, but doesn’t that create a unfair scale? Some schools will have really inflated averages and some will not. Since my HS only submits weighted, wouldn’t it look pretty awful when my classes are honors and AP with a weighted of only 98 (weight is only ~3 points more than my unweighted when averaged out)? It’s difficult to compare that to 4.0 averaged with 5.0 from APs , and people who have 4.9s?

My question is, can colleges request unweighted even when it’s not listed on my transcript? If not, how would they handle with HS’s that have different weights? Thanks in advance!