naviance GPA

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, if I am being a bit dense.

Do you mean that when you do a search for any particular school to see at what GPA students were admitted in that school, you are not seeing the actual GPA (first 3 years of HS) that the college based their decision on? Rather you are seeing the final GPA of admitted students?

At my child's school, yes. We were specifically told to take into account that those are end-of-senior-year GPAs, which are higher at our school because the kids tend to take lots of APs. They tell us this so we won't freak out and think our kids won't get in anywhere. P

At our school, they've told us the Naviance GPAs are for all four years, but they seem to encourage kids to make choices about where to apply based on their GPA after three years. I guess they don't want the kids to be disappointed, but it tends to steer them towards safer choices, since senior-year GPAs tend to be higher.

Our school includes both weighted and unweighted GPAs on Naviance so you can look at both. Because honors and APs are weighted the same (this is MCPS) the weighted grades actually don't change that much from junior to senior year. My DC only had a few unweighted classes in 4 years and that would be true for most kids applying to the schools DC was looking at. We tended to focus on unweighted GPAs on Naviance since that's typically what the colleges are going to look at. We looked at the weighted just to see if there were any anomalies, but for the competitive schools nearly all the kids were primarily on the all honors/AP track.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry, if I am being a bit dense.

Do you mean that when you do a search for any particular school to see at what GPA students were admitted in that school, you are not seeing the actual GPA (first 3 years of HS) that the college based their decision on? Rather you are seeing the final GPA of admitted students?

At my child's school, yes. We were specifically told to take into account that those are end-of-senior-year GPAs, which are higher at our school because the kids tend to take lots of APs. They tell us this so we won't freak out and think our kids won't get in anywhere. P

At our school, they've told us the Naviance GPAs are for all four years, but they seem to encourage kids to make choices about where to apply based on their GPA after three years. I guess they don't want the kids to be disappointed, but it tends to steer them towards safer choices, since senior-year GPAs tend to be higher.

Our school includes both weighted and unweighted GPAs on Naviance so you can look at both. Because honors and APs are weighted the same (this is MCPS) the weighted grades actually don't change that much from junior to senior year. My DC only had a few unweighted classes in 4 years and that would be true for most kids applying to the schools DC was looking at. We tended to focus on unweighted GPAs on Naviance since that's typically what the colleges are going to look at. We looked at the weighted just to see if there were any anomalies, but for the competitive schools nearly all the kids were primarily on the all honors/AP track.

That is not the case in other jurisdictions or for other students, and some schools look at weighted GPAs. So your experience is certainly valid, but not necessarily representative of how others may need to approach the Naviance data.