Anonymous wrote:Yeah, agree it doesn't really matter. But I would do whatever the counselor says, following the norm at your school.

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter. The colleges are going to recalculate with their own scale regardless of what is reported.

Some schools have higher than 5.0.
Colleges recalculate.

Actually they don't recalculate. Came directly from the AO's mouth at a T20 we visited this summer.

Yeah, agree it doesn't really matter. But I would do whatever the counselor says, following the norm at your school.

Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter. The colleges are going to recalculate with their own scale regardless of what is reported.

Some schools have higher than 5.0.
Colleges recalculate.

4.0 is correct. Our private high school counselors have been saying this for several years.

5.0 is impossible to achieve unless every required course has a weighted option, which is not the case at most high schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling.

Your counselor is correct.
https://www.collegevine.com/faq/8527/what-s-the-deal-with-gpa-scale-on-the-common-app-and-how-should-i-report-mine
https://empowerly.com/applications/gpa-scale-reporting-common-app/

Our counselor suggested uw GPA is better.

I suspect many kids don't follow this guidance though. But since kids in a given HS are compared to each other, doubt it matters at all either way.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling.

That’s bad advice. A 4.4 on a scale of 5 looks like a B.

Maybe because it's a magnet school with a large number of kids having 4.7+ weighted. My 4.97w kid didn't care and a quick glance at grades, which students have to manually input, showed all As.

Anonymous wrote:Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling.

And ours says 4. Which I can understand as 5 would be misleading since only AP classes have that ceiling. The majority of classes a student takes are 4 or 4.5. In any case, most colleges recalculate anyway so it doesn’t matter that much.

Anonymous wrote:Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling.

Your counselor is correct.
https://www.collegevine.com/faq/8527/what-s-the-deal-with-gpa-scale-on-the-common-app-and-how-should-i-report-mine
https://empowerly.com/applications/gpa-scale-reporting-common-app/

Our counselor suggested uw GPA is better.

It doesn't matter. The colleges are going to recalculate with their own scale regardless of what is reported.

Anonymous wrote:Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling.

That’s bad advice. A 4.4 on a scale of 5 looks like a B.

Our counselor said 5, since that establishes the real ceiling.

If it’s weighted it’s a 4.4 on a scale of 4.0.

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If you report a weighted GPA on the common app, do you put that it's on a scale of 4 or 5? For example, my kid has a 4.4 weighted, where the max weighted GPA is 5 and the max unweighted is 4. So does she put that the 4.4 is weighted on a scale of 4 or 5?