Weighted GPA?

ohiopop
Tue, 05 May 2015 04:26:42 +0000

Agree. I don’t think you need to worry too much. First, the grading system is not really under your control. Only what you take and the grade you get, are within your control (to a certain extent). Every school has a different grading system (for example, in my D’s school they only give +0.33 for AP classes; and they limit the number of AP classes they can take); and, as I mentioned, schools also have different limits on the number of honors and AP classes available, and the number of AP classes they can take; finally, schools have different degrees of difficulty of obtaining a high grade. So, admission officers do not compare GPA’s from one school to the other (rather they see how well you have done and how difficult your courses are), and they also request a prospectus (or some information) on the GPA distribution of the class where you belong. This way, regardless of what your actual GPA is, they will know if you are in the very top, somewhere on top, or somewhere in the middle.