AP PreCalculus/Colleges weight when recalculating GPAs?

[Anonymous]

Anyone have insight into whether most colleges weight AP Precalculus when recalculating GPAs for admission purposes?

I have seen mixed things on how seriously colleges take this new AP course.

My DD will be taking AP calculus and beyond, so I am just wondering whether any recalculated GPA will get a boost from this AP?

[Anonymous]

They weight or unweight but don’t do it based on a single class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone have insight into whether most colleges weight AP Precalculus when recalculating GPAs for admission purposes?

I have seen mixed things on how seriously colleges take this new AP course.

My DD will be taking AP calculus and beyond, so I am just wondering whether any recalculated GPA will get a boost from this AP?

I dont think anyone has insight, just speculation. However, most colleges will compare your student to applicants from your HS. Is there an alternative/more difficult class they could be taking instead?

[Anonymous]

This is not a knowable thing. Every college evaluates rigor differently. Some reweight, some don’t. Your kid should take the most rigorous class available. If that’s pre-calc, she’s doing the most she can. Move on.

[Anonymous]

I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I dont think you read the prior two responses. It doesnt matter whether or not a school weighs. Is it the most rigorous math class your student can take at this time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

You are not in fact hearing everyone. Everyone is telling you that the “very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do” is not a thing. Many schools don’t reweight GPAs at all, and the ones that do mostly don’t reveal their methods (there are exceptions, like the UC schools). Many don’t look at weighted GPAs; they look at rigor and how the applicant compares to others from their HS. I’ve never heard of a school singling out an AP class and announcing a different policy.

This is not knowable now. It will not be knowable in the future. The end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I answered you above but you ignored me. No school is unweighting a single class. They:

- ignore freshman grades
- unweight everything
- remove non core classes

Etc. it is some method like the above but whatever it is, it is uniform. Meaning, they are not picking ONE class and saying for just this one we….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I dont think you read the prior two responses. It doesnt matter whether or not a school weighs. Is it the most rigorous math class your student can take at this time?

Yes. I did hear that. Yes she is taking the most rigorous offered. So recalculated GPAs don't matter? Of course they do.

I hear this often. The college will look at the classes offered and compare. I get it for a holistic review (maybe). If it gets to that.

But I have my doubts on whether a college that gets, say 50k plus applications, is able to do this for every single high school in the country. I am sincerely asking how this is done? Is there something flagged in their system? Because no way each of the admissions people can know this and actually do their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I answered you above but you ignored me. No school is unweighting a single class. They:

- ignore freshman grades
- unweight everything
- remove non core classes

Etc. it is some method like the above but whatever it is, it is uniform. Meaning, they are not picking ONE class and saying for just this one we….

You are sure about that? They don't "unweight" Honors classes? better do some research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I answered you above but you ignored me. No school is unweighting a single class. They:

- ignore freshman grades
- unweight everything
- remove non core classes

Etc. it is some method like the above but whatever it is, it is uniform. Meaning, they are not picking ONE class and saying for just this one we….

FYI, there are high schools that don't weight GPAs. My child is at one. So yes, a particular college may add weight to her GPA.

[Anonymous]

Colleges know it's a high school class, a remedial class for college, not a college level class. Whether they consider it honors or not is unknown.

It doesn't really matter. It's like asking whether colleges weight "Honors Health" or "Orchestra 3" higher than PE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I answered you above but you ignored me. No school is unweighting a single class. They:

- ignore freshman grades
- unweight everything
- remove non core classes

Etc. it is some method like the above but whatever it is, it is uniform. Meaning, they are not picking ONE class and saying for just this one we….

FYI, there are high schools that don't weight GPAs. My child is at one. So yes, a particular college may add weight to her GPA.

I didn’t say otherwise. OP asked about ONE class:

OP: “Anyone have insight into whether most colleges weight AP Precalculus when recalculating GPAs for admission purposes?”

OP: So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.”

In your kid’s case, they will either weight your kid’s GPA or unweight another kid’s GPA. Or (un)weight core classes but zero schools are weighting or unweighting or including or excluding AP Precalc.

[Anonymous]

I'm familiar with one university's procedures. They recalculate GPAs based on core subjects, without any weights. Rigor is calculated separately. So AP Precalc wouldn't show up differently than regular or honors in terms of the GPA, but it would get extra consideration in terms of rigor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear everyone. I asking about the very specific mathematical recalculation of GPAs schools do. I understand that most/many add weight for APs classes but not for honors.

So asking about this class. Not overall holistic review of her application.

I am hearing that this may not be knowable at least not yet? I do hear that people do see the GPAs recalculated so wonder if people will be able to figure it out.

I answered you above but you ignored me. No school is unweighting a single class. They:

- ignore freshman grades
- unweight everything
- remove non core classes

Etc. it is some method like the above but whatever it is, it is uniform. Meaning, they are not picking ONE class and saying for just this one we….

You are sure about that? They don't "unweight" Honors classes? better do some research.

That still falls under the PP's statement that they have categorical rules, not class-by-class determinations.

OP, what are you going to do with any answer you get? Your child is taking the class she's taking (which is, in fact, the most rigorous class possible). She'll report the GPA as her school calculates it. College admission offices will do what they do with it and make whatever decision (based, of course, on much more). You can't control any of that and you have no decision to make.