What is a good weighted GPA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:depends entirely on your school's weighting policy, which varies district to district and also with privates.

In my kids school, the valedictorian had something like a 4.70. My DS had a 4.6 and was in the top 3% of his class. Honors classes got a .5 bump and AP and DE got a full 1.0 bump.

Our (non-DMV) DC had a 4.0 uw/4.49w and wasn’t even top 10 percent in their class of 400+. But DC got into all schools applied to and had 40+ DE credits that transferred (including their “A” letter grade so will start off with a very nice cumulative GPA!).

So it’s all in what you make of it.

Similar situation here, 4.0uw/4.25-ish w, sufficient rigor (8 AP/DE), admitted to a T10.

OP, grades are not standardized. Nor is GPA. There is no one size fits all answer to your question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:depends entirely on your school's weighting policy, which varies district to district and also with privates.

In my kids school, the valedictorian had something like a 4.70. My DS had a 4.6 and was in the top 3% of his class. Honors classes got a .5 bump and AP and DE got a full 1.0 bump.

Our (non-DMV) DC had a 4.0 uw/4.49w and wasn’t even top 10 percent in their class of 400+. But DC got into all schools applied to and had 40+ DE credits that transferred (including their “A” letter grade so will start off with a very nice cumulative GPA!).

So it’s all in what you make of it.

Similar situation here, 4.0uw/4.25-ish w, sufficient rigor (8 AP/DE), admitted to a T10.

OP, grades are not standardized. Nor is GPA. There is no one size fits all answer to your question.

Congrats!
PP
What did he/she have for extracurriculars? How about SAT scores?

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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What answer are you looking for? Multiple people have posted that it’s entirely context dependent; a 4.5 at one school is top 5%, while at another it’s not even top 10%. You need to understand your school’s weighting system and what level of rigor (generally defined in public school as number of honors/AP classes) top students have.

[Anonymous]

In addition to being dependent on the particular HS, the other kids’ GPA at the same school in the same class, the rigor…we also din’t know what “good” means to you. For some, it means competitive for an ivy league, some it means top 25 school, top 50, top 100, etc.