What's more important? Weighted vs. Unweighted GPA

schoolismylife
Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:44:32 +0000

I’ve been looking over my school transcript for a while and the number of B’s i’ve collected over the past few years makes me nervous. Do I even have a chance because unlike most people in my school who have selected their courses carefully to ensure a 4.0, I’ve been recklessly taking hard classes and I’m pretty sure I have had the most rigorous class load in my school.

Freshman:

H. English A/A
H. Social Science A/A
Geometry A/A
Spanish 2 A/A
Spanish 3 A/A
Conceptual Physics A/A

Sophomore:

Biology: B/A
Algebra II: A/A
Pre-Cal: A/A
H. English: A/A
H. World History: A/A
AP Spanish 4: A/A
Environment Science (Cal State Hayward): A

Junior:

College Calculus I(Community College): A
College Calculus II (CC): A
College Multivariable Caclulus (UC Berkeley): B (i know, i was like a point off from getting an A)
College Finite Mathematics (CC): A
AP Stats: A/A
AP U.S. History:A/A
AP English Language: B/B
AP Spanish 5: A/A
Physics: A/A
Honors Chemistry: A/B
College Computer Information Systems (CC): A

Senior (First Term Grades are out and 2nd Term is almost finished. note: my school is under block system):

AP Psychology: B/A
AP Gov’t/ Econ
AP Literature: A/A
AP Biology: B/A
College Differential Equations (CC)
College Computer Science (CC)
Art 1-2

So basically i’ve taken a quite a few weighted classes, yet unfortunately earned many B’s.

My Unweighted Sophomore/Junior GPA is around a 3.84 and my school ranking is most likely in the top decile.

My Weighted GPA is a 4.5.

So I was wondering how the MIT adcoms would like at my transcript. Is this acceptable?