Weighted GPAs and Admissions

ucbalumnus
Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:45:08 +0000

sablue:

I just attended a virtual information session for Miami University. When the conversation turned to merit scholarships, the Miami admissions rep stated that they will use whatever weighted GPA your high school has on the transcript.

Seems like if there are many colleges that take high school weighted GPA at face value, that gives incentive for high schools to use very heavy weighting (e.g. +2 weighting for many classes). Students from South Carolina (where heavy weighting is the standard may find their GPAs to be advantageous at those colleges that take weighted GPA at face value.

However, many colleges recalculate unweighted, or weighted using their own system, GPAs, so the high school weighted GPA is irrelevant to them. Some others with holistic admission reading just look at the high school record holistically without recalculating.