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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone from Fairfax county explain what a 4.4 weighted translates too?  Is it a 4.0 unweighted and how many APs to get to a 4.4? [/quote]
NP. Through 11th grade DS has a 3.975/4.496.  Two A-  6 APs, 1 post-AP[/quote]

I don’t understand this.  My DS took 6 APs through 11th grade and has never gotten below an A in any class.  And yet, his weighted GPA is a 4.22.  What is a post AP?[/quote]

I wonder if the difference is in how many honors or regular courses a high school offers outside of AP. My DS had 8 APs and 1 DE by 11th.  1 B+ (AP Physics), 2 A- (regular Latin) and the rest were As. He took 8 classes/year and honors wherever possible. But foreign language didn’t offer honors before AP, and accelerated math kids were in non-honors courses before AP Calc in 11th.  Electives (2-3/year) were also unweighted. His GPA was a 4.24 at the end of junior year. [/quote]

The colleges understand how GPA is calculated at different schools and they recalculate them so they are comparable.....[/quote]

That impacts the bump for honors and AP, but in doesn’t impact what types of classes a school offers. So in my example, I suspect a lot less honors classes are offered at the lower level compared to (for example) FCPS, which leads to a lower GPA. [/quote]

They don’t recalculate.  They judge the GPA within the context of the particular high school.  This is why the stats being thrown around here are so useless.  They only apply to your high school. [/quote]

Dean J says this what feels like once a day on her social media posts and no one ever seems to listen. [/quote]

She also posted this about TO in a recent CC thread and after she posted other continued to argue about TO at UVA. It was pretty incredible and made clearly that many people have their own opinions and think they know more the colleges who actually make statements on this stuff:

“ If you listen to anyone who works in my office (or follow me on social media), you know that sustained classroom performance (four years of courses and grades) are the most important part of the application review. No one gets in because of their test score here. Consider that for most of our students, the math on the SAT is material they had 1-3 years ago (probably 2-3 for the engineers). The scores don’t tell us what we need to know…the transcripts do.

When in doubt, just go TO and move on. Remember that the people encouraging you to fixate on testing aren’t admission officers.”[/quote]

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