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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It does not matter.  Schools re-calculate anyway.

Some schools take out all 9th grade courses.
Some take out non academic courses (drivers ed and PE)

Some colleges review kids together for a school as this way they do not need to spend the time familiarizing themselves on the schools profile etc.[/quote]

I often read this. Truly curious, what colleges specifically recalculate GPA by these means or others. It seems to me admissions offices would be way too busy to actually do this for each student as there would need to be some human piece to the recalculation. [/quote].

All selective colleges recalculate the GPAs. They hire people under contract to do this. It varies by college, but they all just start with the letter grade earned for all or some (core) classes and then add back in some form of weighting for some AP and IB classes. For colleges that get a ton of applications from your high school, the colleges often know the top 5 or 10% cut offs better than the high school guidance counselors do.

Weighted means nothing for college admissions process. [/quote]

Of corse it does, they just use their own weighting.[/quote]

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