Weighted vs Unweighted GPA

[Anonymous]

I am a little confused. If a kid gets all A’s and 2 B+ ( for 2 honors class in magnet school- only takes maths and science there) for all of 2 quarters as a freshman in HS.
What does a GPA of 4.11 mean after 2 quarters?
I am thinking unweighted would be near 3.8 ish?
So would it not be near a 5 if this is unweighted GPA?
How does the computation this really work ? I have no idea.
Thanks.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a little confused. If a kid gets all A’s and 2 B+ ( for 2 honors class in magnet school- only takes maths and science there) for all of 2 quarters as a freshman in HS.
What does a GPA of 4.11 mean after 2 quarters?
I am thinking unweighted would be near 3.8 ish?
So would it not be near a 5 if this is unweighted GPA?
How does the computation this really work ? I have no idea.
Thanks.

Sorry I meant would the GPA not be near a 5 if weighted?

[Anonymous]

It depends on how it's weighted, and for which classes. Every school is different, which is why colleges look at the unweighted GPA and look at the rigor of courses taken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends on how it's weighted, and for which classes. Every school is different, which is why colleges look at the unweighted GPA and look at the rigor of courses taken.

Ah ok.
He takes maths and english at magnet and everything else in base school so maybe it wont even be out of 5.0?

[Anonymous]

Don’t bother trying to calculate GPA based on mid year grades. You are going to drive yourself crazy. End of year is what matters for transcripts. At my kid’s school, nothing is calculated until after final year report cards and honors, AP, DE and general ed classes are all weighed differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bother trying to calculate GPA based on mid year grades. You are going to drive yourself crazy. End of year is what matters for transcripts. At my kid’s school, nothing is calculated until after final year report cards and honors, AP, DE and general ed classes are all weighed differently.

Thank you. nust curious though , not worrying . its all a maze to me right now.
What is Dual enrollment - when kids are in 2 different schools?

[Anonymous]

You need to know your school's weighting scheme. It's probably in a student handbook.

For example, at APS HS's the weight is +1 for AP, IB, DE classes. No weight for "intensified" (aka honors).
Unweighted A = 4, B+=3.5, B=3 etc. (they don't give minus grades)

So if there are 7 classes with 2 B+ and the rest As, all regular or honors, that would be (4 + 4 + 4+ 4+ 4+ 3.5 + 3.5)/7 = 3.86

If 3 of those As were in AP classes, you'd get:
(5 + 5 + 5+ 4+ 4+ 3.5 + 3.5)/7 = 4.28 weighted (but still 3.86 unweighted)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t bother trying to calculate GPA based on mid year grades. You are going to drive yourself crazy. End of year is what matters for transcripts. At my kid’s school, nothing is calculated until after final year report cards and honors, AP, DE and general ed classes are all weighed differently.

Thank you. nust curious though , not worrying . its all a maze to me right now.
What is Dual enrollment - when kids are in 2 different schools?

Dual Enrollment is a class taken at the HS but in partnership with a college (typically the local community college). The teacher has to be accredited at the community college in addition to the high school. The completed class gets a college credit and would be listed on a transcript from the community college in addition to your high school. If you are going to a public university it's usually a pretty straightforward transfer of that credit to that university. But, those credits often are not accepted at competitive private colleges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You need to know your school's weighting scheme. It's probably in a student handbook.

For example, at APS HS's the weight is +1 for AP, IB, DE classes. No weight for "intensified" (aka honors).
Unweighted A = 4, B+=3.5, B=3 etc. (they don't give minus grades)

So if there are 7 classes with 2 B+ and the rest As, all regular or honors, that would be (4 + 4 + 4+ 4+ 4+ 3.5 + 3.5)/7 = 3.86

If 3 of those As were in AP classes, you'd get:
(5 + 5 + 5+ 4+ 4+ 3.5 + 3.5)/7 = 4.28 weighted (but still 3.86 unweighted)

Thank you
Will have to look that up.
He is in 2 schools so will check out both.

He has one honors class in a base school where he has 3 others regular classes - As in all 4 of these.
and 2 AP classes in AOS, one of the classes he got B+ in quarter one and also in quarter 2.
So was trying to figure out how the grading works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need to know your school's weighting scheme. It's probably in a student handbook.

For example, at APS HS's the weight is +1 for AP, IB, DE classes. No weight for "intensified" (aka honors).
Unweighted A = 4, B+=3.5, B=3 etc. (they don't give minus grades)

So if there are 7 classes with 2 B+ and the rest As, all regular or honors, that would be (4 + 4 + 4+ 4+ 4+ 3.5 + 3.5)/7 = 3.86

If 3 of those As were in AP classes, you'd get:
(5 + 5 + 5+ 4+ 4+ 3.5 + 3.5)/7 = 4.28 weighted (but still 3.86 unweighted)

Thank you
Will have to look that up.
He is in 2 schools so will check out both.

He has one honors class in a base school where he has 3 others regular classes - As in all 4 of these.
and 2 AP classes in AOS, one of the classes he got B+ in quarter one and also in quarter 2.
So was trying to figure out how the grading works.

All year-long Honors (H) courses and all
Academy of Science (AOS) courses
receive a “weight" of 0.5

Does this mean as they take AP classes it has chance to go up towards a 5?