When does weighted GPA get used?

Shaun1234567
Sun, 24 Dec 2017 06:08:20 +0000

So I’m looking around prepscholar for average GPAs and I come across certain top schools that have GPAs above a 4.0 . My school reports both unweighted and weighted GPA, however, everyone tells me that it’s my unweighted GPA that matters. I guess that I’m trying to ask is how come there are average GPAs above a 4.0 if the maximum unweighted is a 4.0? Do these schools use only weighted GPAs in their evaluation or do some highschools only report a weighted GPA?