Weighted or Unweighted GPA
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Anonymous
| Do top 10 or 15 schools look at Weighted or Unweighted GPA for admission. I have heard varying answers and some saying they convert weighted to unweighted. What is the correct answer |
Anonymous
| Top schools typically recalculate the GPA in their own way. There is no single answer. |
Anonymous
| It depends. UCLA, for example, takes out any plusses or minuses and then adds for IB or AP. They do own calculations. |
Anonymous
| Schools look at both. They look at your unweighted GPA, and at your rigor, and one way they look at rigor is by looking at the difference between weighted and unweighted. They don't have a formula like "we need the weighted to be above 4.4" or something, but they definitely use the information they get from it in their decision making. But weighted GPA's are impossible to interpret without information from the specific school. |
Anonymous
And I should add, only considers sophomore and junior year grades |
Anonymous
| They look at it all the in the context of your school and your class. Then they score it based on their own formula. |
Anonymous
| Colleges do their own unique weighting formula so I'd focus on unweighted gpa as that is what colleges will work off of. Your school's weighting criteria and weighted gpa is irrelevant. |
Anonymous
| The Common App recommends weighted but I’m not sure why. DD’s UW is 3.91/4 and her W is 4.67/5. Wouldn’t the UW be stronger in her case? I’d think one should submit the stronger ratio, but I’m not sure. |
Anonymous
With a transcript, they’ll have all the information, regardless of which you list. That said, since at many schools it would be impossible get a weighted 5.0, due to required classes that aren’t weighted, that 4.67 is great. Stronger than the 3.91, as I see it. |