Avg. GPA of accepted students - does this include senior transcripts or the GPAs reported on applications?

[Anonymous]

Curious how these numbers are calculated. Are these the average GPA on applications of accepted students or final GPAs of enrolled students?

[Anonymous]

No rhyme or reason. Sometimes they mix weighted and unweighted GPA, whatever students report.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the high school. Also, some senior GPAs go up and some go down!!

(i.e some seniors work hard until the very end, especially if they hope to get off a waitlist or transfer and some slack off and get their first Bs or Cs).

[Anonymous]

On CDS, it's as reported on applications. It's a mix of weighted and unweighted, which makes it pretty meaningless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On CDS, it's as reported on applications. It's a mix of weighted and unweighted, which makes it pretty meaningless.

Really? Do you mean some schools use weighted and some dont or that even within a school it is a mix? I guess I always assumed it was unweighted grades! I wonder how my kid could tell if it might be a good fit in terms of a target school. (Not to mention weighted averages are all calculated differently.... I know that honors gets a bump at the local HS which is not always the case everywhere, but on the other hand, Honors/AP are only a .5 bump, not a 1...and there are no A+ grades period).

I mean I understand that even grades on the same scale can be subjective - even within a school, depending on the teacher...but this whole college application stuff is sort of bananas.

[Anonymous]

Rule of thumb- the college will select whatever metric makes their institution look better.

[Anonymous]

Also, the Common Data Set is reporting data for enrolled students, not admitted students.

[Anonymous]

CDS is whatever they want - but def not end of year. at time of application.

Naviance is end of year at our school.

[Anonymous]

Everything is end of senior year.