<p>I know weighted includes AP course and such, but how exactly is the unweighted/weighted GPA calculated? thanks!</p>
<p>In my school we have several levels of say, Sophmore English: Regular, honors, high honors and AP. If you get a “B” in “regular” English, it’s a 3.0, in Honors a 3.5 and High Honors and AP a 4.0.</p>
<p>This way a student does not get penalized for taking challanging classes while a classmate might opt for the easy route. Thus, class rank factors in the rigor of coursework.</p>
<p>At my school, an A in a regular class was a 4.0. In AP classes, we could get H’s (5.0). Therefore, if you took an AP class and got an H, your unweighted GPA would be a 4.0, and your weighted GPA would be a 5.0.</p>
<p>but salem if what you’re saying is true, that students dont get penalized, then why isit that so many colleges take into consideration, this weighting? i regret taking such hard classes and having a 3.8 weighted, and my friend’s taking such easy classes and has 3.7 unweighted…</p>
<p>flyguy: If admissions work the way they are designed to, you are in a better position because of “rigor of curriculum”…In an ideal world, you would have a better chance of admission than your friend…Now, unfortunately, if you are talking about admission to a large state university, the system does not always work…It depends on the schools you (and your friend) would be applying to…</p>
<p>In addition, you are better prepared to handle college level work going forward…</p>
<p>rodney is right flyguy. These adcoms can tell in seconds by scanning your transcript if your rigor of coursework is comparable to other admitted students. In many cases when universities list their criteria for admittance, “rigor of coursework” comes BEFORE gpa. As you can tell on this board, the average NYU applicant has MANY High honors and AP courses (IF THEY’RE OFFERED…that’s another thing) NOT having them would be a HUGE red flag. In the NYU admissions pamphlet under Q & A it actually states something like Q: "Am I better off getting an A in a regular level class or a “B” in an honors class. A: “We’d like to see you get an “A” in an honors class”. NOW I think the real injustice in this whole admission criteria is “class rank” I know it’s a great way to size up a perspective student against his or her high school classmates, but most private and many competitive public schools won’t send it because it put’s their high acheiving students at a disadvantage ( say a B+ or 3.5 might be in the 50th percentile). For those of us who go to competitive schools that DO send it get hosed…Most adcoms do rank class rank as a high factor, but with 50% of applicants NOT sending it, I think it should be taken out of the equation. AN adcom friend of the family says that contrary to adcom lore, most schools do NOT have a magical formula for calculating class rank in the minutes they glance at a transcript for those thousands of schools that don’t send it. I think that’s what S**ks</p>
<p>Having few or no AP courses does not mean you will be rejected. For example, some high schools like mines restrict the number of APs students take (because they were so few AP teachers). You can explain why your coursework was not as rigor in the Additional Information. Maybe the school does not offer APs or there is an obstacle. I have friends who got in with meager GPAs (3.3ish) and very few APs. Notice if you check on other threads, those with high GPAs and all APs also get rejected.</p>
<p>Also remember most high schools do not have a standard method of calculating grades for honors and APs. My former high school does not curve Honors and AP grades. Notice that NYU also recalculate your high school grades so any curve or deflation would not matter.</p>
<p>the boarding school i attended for 9 and 10th grades did not offer any honors or ap classes, and didn’t even have a foreign language department. i took the hardest courses i could, and that’s why my gpa isn’t as high as it could be had i stayed at my public school. i noted it in my app, but i also heard that college have profiles of high schools containing information on any given school. will NYU be more concerned with my course load and constant improvement (1 C/Bs to all As) in grades than my gpa?</p>
<p>Also on the secondary school report, doesn’t the guidance counselor make a note him/herself, commenting on your course load? Even if NYU didn’t have profiles on every high school the guidance counselor could fairly say you took the most rigorous courseloads that your school could offer/in comparison to your peers.</p>
<p>I would not pay any attention to the GPA’s of admitted students published on CC. The GPA is meaningless in isolation. Pretty much every school calculates them their own way. Generally, class rank and where a student falls in the scattergram of a particular school are what colleges look at, not raw GPA. And don’t kid yourself that if your school does not rank they cannot reconstruct an approximate rank for themselves, based on other information the school provides.</p>