Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 22:22     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Using a weighted GPA doesn’t help across school districts or across schools. A 4.4 weighted GPA is about top 20% FPS but top 5/% Arlington Public Schools. At STA or NCS, a 3.7 is top 5%. It’s rank and rigor that matter. Not weighted GPA.


A 4.4W is NOT about the top 20% at our FCPS -- not sure where you're getting that from.


So what is the top 20%? Top 5%?


What GPA equates to the top X percent will vary by school within FCPS. Some high schools within the district have a high percentage of students taking multiple AP or IB classes, while others will have a much lower percentage of such students. Thus the average GPAs at the former schools will be higher than at the latter.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 22:08     Subject: Re:Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
My kid is full IB, all honors or AP classes. They have gotten one B.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 21:50     Subject: Re:Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
I'm confused - are you demanding that DCUM posters calculate an unweighted GPA that's not on their kids' transcripts and won't be provided to colleges?

Some schools DO take the weighted GPA at face value. This kind of info was provided in Naviance at my kids' FCPS school. (My kids definitely received merit based on their wGPA). There is no class rank in FCPS.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 21:03     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
I tend to agree. MCPS gives a full point for honors and AP classes whereas some local districts do only .5 for honors. Helpful to indicate either district or weighting scale. Otherwise it’s apples to oranges.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:32     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Using a weighted GPA doesn’t help across school districts or across schools. A 4.4 weighted GPA is about top 20% FPS but top 5/% Arlington Public Schools. At STA or NCS, a 3.7 is top 5%. It’s rank and rigor that matter. Not weighted GPA.


A 4.4W is NOT about the top 20% at our FCPS -- not sure where you're getting that from.


Meant "at our FCPS high school."



You’ve just made the point. Saying 4.4 means nothing. Giving class rank (top 5% or not) and rigor is important info.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:29     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Using a weighted GPA doesn’t help across school districts or across schools. A 4.4 weighted GPA is about top 20% FPS but top 5/% Arlington Public Schools. At STA or NCS, a 3.7 is top 5%. It’s rank and rigor that matter. Not weighted GPA.


A 4.4W is NOT about the top 20% at our FCPS -- not sure where you're getting that from.


Meant "at our FCPS high school."
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:28     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Using a weighted GPA doesn’t help across school districts or across schools. A 4.4 weighted GPA is about top 20% FPS but top 5/% Arlington Public Schools. At STA or NCS, a 3.7 is top 5%. It’s rank and rigor that matter. Not weighted GPA.


A 4.4W is NOT about the top 20% at our FCPS -- not sure where you're getting that from.


So what is the top 20%? Top 5%?
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:27     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:Using a weighted GPA doesn’t help across school districts or across schools. A 4.4 weighted GPA is about top 20% FPS but top 5/% Arlington Public Schools. At STA or NCS, a 3.7 is top 5%. It’s rank and rigor that matter. Not weighted GPA.


A 4.4W is NOT about the top 20% at our FCPS -- not sure where you're getting that from.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:26     Subject: Re:Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can you provide examples of what you mean by rank and rigor..Better yet, if you can post a template on what information you'd like to see, that would be helpful.




This report put out by the Virginia Council of Higher Education provides statistics (not rigor) for schools for the entering class of each year. So this addresses GPA/ACT/SAT, etc. It does not address rigor, but you know UVA, etc., wants to see the most rigorous box checked. Here, for example, you can see the entering class of W&M last year at the 75th percentile had a 4.50 and UVA a 4.52. You can see every private and public virginia school here and get a very good sense of where your child might fit. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp


Not helpful data. For APS, every kid w 4.4 and above gets into UVA.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:23     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
I mean all these posts about my kid has a 4.4 GPA. Will they get into UVA? I mean please. It depends on where the 4.4 is in the class rank and whether the courseload is the most rigorous. There are dozens of school districts on DCUM and the W GPAs don’t translate.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:23     Subject: Re:Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Anonymous wrote:Can you provide examples of what you mean by rank and rigor..Better yet, if you can post a template on what information you'd like to see, that would be helpful.




This report put out by the Virginia Council of Higher Education provides statistics (not rigor) for schools for the entering class of each year. So this addresses GPA/ACT/SAT, etc. It does not address rigor, but you know UVA, etc., wants to see the most rigorous box checked. Here, for example, you can see the entering class of W&M last year at the 75th percentile had a 4.50 and UVA a 4.52. You can see every private and public virginia school here and get a very good sense of where your child might fit. https://research.schev.edu//enrollment/B10_FreshmenProfile.asp
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:23     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
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.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:19     Subject: Re:Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Maybe an Excel spreadsheet.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:17     Subject: Re:Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Can you provide examples of what you mean by rank and rigor..Better yet, if you can post a template on what information you'd like to see, that would be helpful.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2022 20:10     Subject: Use UW GPA and indicate rigor and weighted here. Please.
Using a weighted GPA doesn’t help across school districts or across schools. A 4.4 weighted GPA is about top 20% FPS but top 5/% Arlington Public Schools. At STA or NCS, a 3.7 is top 5%. It’s rank and rigor that matter. Not weighted GPA.