Weighted GPA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ignore weighted GPA. People around here cite it all the time, but it's meaningless. Take very rigorous courses. Do the best you can. These are important. But WGPA isn't a good measure of that.

Colleges and universities will re-weigh those weighted GPAs typically.

[Anonymous]

They do a real calculation twice a year, IIRC in fall and in spring.

My kid is a sophomore and it does reflect middle school grades that count.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They do a real calculation twice a year, IIRC in fall and in spring.

My kid is a sophomore and it does reflect middle school grades that count.

The just re-did the calculations, posted in ParentVue documents.

[Anonymous]

Ignore weighted GPA. People reference them a lot and they are irrelevant. Anyone who wants to consider the combination of grades and course rigor will look at the actual courses taken and make their own assessment (and any reasonable person would weight APs more than Honors courses, which is not how this number is calculated on transcripts).

[Anonymous]

Do a lot of colleges remove health from the GPA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do a lot of colleges remove health from the GPA?

Schools do it differently and no one knows their formulas. Admissions officers regularly say that they do their own re-weighting, so that part is correct. But they never give details. It will remain a mystery (even if DCUM-ers speak confidently that they know!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do a lot of colleges remove health from the GPA?

It doesn’t matter whether or not they do. The point is that they will have a process for examining transcripts and accounting for rigor+grades that make sense to that university or program in the university so that they can compare across schools and school systems.

The actual GPA number itself doesn’t matter, except as a quick idea of grades.