Common app GPA question
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Anonymous
| If you report a weighted GPA on the common app, do you put that it's on a scale of 4 or 5? For example, my kid has a 4.4 weighted, where the max weighted GPA is 5 and the max unweighted is 4. So does she put that the 4.4 is weighted on a scale of 4 or 5? |
Anonymous
| 4 |
Anonymous
| If it’s weighted it’s a 4.4 on a scale of 4.0. |
Anonymous
| Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling. |
Anonymous
That’s bad advice. A 4.4 on a scale of 5 looks like a B. |
Anonymous
| It doesn't matter. The colleges are going to recalculate with their own scale regardless of what is reported. |
Anonymous
Your counselor is correct. https://www.collegevine.com/faq/8527/what-s-the-deal-with-gpa-scale-on-the-common-app-and-how-should-i-report-mine https://empowerly.com/applications/gpa-scale-reporting-common-app/ Our counselor suggested uw GPA is better. |
Anonymous
And ours says 4. Which I can understand as 5 would be misleading since only AP classes have that ceiling. The majority of classes a student takes are 4 or 4.5. In any case, most colleges recalculate anyway so it doesn’t matter that much. |
Anonymous
Maybe because it's a magnet school with a large number of kids having 4.7+ weighted. My 4.97w kid didn't care and a quick glance at grades, which students have to manually input, showed all As. |
Anonymous
I suspect many kids don't follow this guidance though. But since kids in a given HS are compared to each other, doubt it matters at all either way. |
Anonymous
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4.0 is correct. Our private high school counselors have been saying this for several years.
5.0 is impossible to achieve unless every required course has a weighted option, which is not the case at most high schools. |
Anonymous
Some schools have higher than 5.0. Colleges recalculate. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, agree it doesn't really matter. But I would do whatever the counselor says, following the norm at your school. |
Anonymous
Actually they don't recalculate. Came directly from the AO's mouth at a T20 we visited this summer. |
Anonymous
+1 |