UVA GPA - 90% with 4.0 GPA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

That's weighted gpa. Last year's incoming class had a 4.51 at the 75th percentile; 4.38 at the mean and 4.20 at the bottom 25th percentile. SCHEV. Most kids are im the top 5% of their class.

Does that mean they had that WGPA with their senior year final grades counted fully, or are those numbers for what was submitted on the application (presumably the WGPA after junior year, or part of senior year?)

senior year counted fully

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

It is really, really rare to get all As in high school. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

It is really, really rare to get all As in high school. Come on.

It is much less rare than it used to be due to grade inflation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

It is really, really rare to get all As in high school. Come on.

It is not. There are many high schools that have 25% who have unweighted all As. In Virginia. In schools where 90 and above is an “A” (no A-), there are schools with 40% all As. These schools often weight A+ and weight for IB or AP or honors, such that a student at the top getting all A (and indeed and mostly A+) in hardest classes have 5.4 weighted.

That being said, UVA rep came and talked as part of a dean panel at our private school and parents attended: it is weighted gpa on the CDS. They confirmed it. They also said all As is quite common at some high schools and not others; some high schools have 75% with a Weighted GPA above 4.0, others have less than 25% with a weighted over 4.0. They consider students in the context of their highschool and whatever grading system and trends exist there.

UVA is very upfront with this stuff. They have put it on social media and in AMA sessions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

It is really, really rare to get all As in high school. Come on.

It is much less rare than it used to be due to grade inflation.

or Grade Hounding or Subjective to School/Teacher. A 4.0 is not a 4.0 even at the same school and same classroom. Glad standardized tests are making a come back.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if this places students with unweighted GPAs at a disadvantage in the admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same question as OP. The cds does say on scale of 4.0

But obviously, 90% do not have perfect A’s

No, that’s not obvious. They very well may.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

That's weighted gpa. Last year's incoming class had a 4.51 at the 75th percentile; 4.38 at the mean and 4.20 at the bottom 25th percentile. SCHEV. Most kids are im the top 5% of their class.

Does that mean they had that WGPA with their senior year final grades counted fully, or are those numbers for what was submitted on the application (presumably the WGPA after junior year, or part of senior year?)

senior year counted fully

Yes, SCHEV data reflects final HS gpa of incoming students, although the admissions decision is usually based on end of junior year GPA (which is usually lower since a lot of students take more weighted classes senior year).

Also, the Naviance green checks and red x’s show final end of senior year GPA and SAT score (regardless of whether student actually reported that score to the college or university).

[Anonymous]

Naviance and Schev report the full year of senior grades. Correct?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Naviance and Schev report the full year of senior grades. Correct?

yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:90% had a weighted 4.0.

How would you weight this? bumps for AP or Honors?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could be either because not all schools report both weighted and unweighted GPAs on transcripts. Ours only reports weighted....

Adding that we were told by multiple teachers and guidance counselors at the start of middle school (when kids started taking high school credit classes) that UVA expects all As for admission. Never sure how true this was but nearly all the kids repeat this as fact and it seems like most of the admitted kids from our HS all have straight As throughout.

It is really, really rare to get all As in high school. Come on.

Not for final grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The CDS here indicates 90.5% of applicants had a 4.0 GPA

https://ira.virginia.edu/sites/g/files/jsddwu1106/files/2023-2024%20CDS_FINAL_508.pdf

Does that mean 90% of applicants had a perfect A on all their HS courses? Or is this weighted - so anything above a 4.0 is capped at 4.0?

GA with a Trump administration stupidly at its best.

Look at the incoherent dolt that tried to wedge Trump into a thread about UVA GPA's. Are you high PP?

[Anonymous]

Does “straight As” mean no A minuses or are people counting those as As?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does “straight As” mean no A minuses or are people counting those as As?

I think most school distrcits around here don't do plus and minuses, so straight As is exactly as it sounds.