Anonymous
Post 11/10/2023 08:58     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:It’s a little crazy but my junior MCPS DC has taken all honors/IB/AP courses other than PE I believe, and currently has a 4.94 WGPA.

Many other high schools do not provide weight for honors. I might suspect that a college doesn't weight honors in a recalculation. My perspective would be that what matters is your DC has all As and has a rigorous transcript.
Anonymous
Post 11/10/2023 08:54     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Question about APs. If you take the AP course, do you have to report the AP score? If you do not report it, do colleges assume it was a bad score? I know kids who are getting As in AP classes and 1s and 2s on the tests.


No, you don't have to report the AP test scores unless you want to receive college credit for them. Colleges will require certain scores to give you credit, but they don't have to see them for admissions.


If I'm an AO at a TO school, isn't it a logical extension to assume an applicant applying TO performed poorly (for T25 schools, maybe less than 1500; for schools in the next bracket, maybe less than 1360)? Likewise, if you don't see the AP test scores (and yes, I understand that some don't take the test for every AP class they take), isn't it a logical extension that the applicant performed poorly (3 or below for some, 2 or below for the most rigorous, I guess)?

NP. If a student applies TO, yes it is logical to assume the applicant performed poorly on SAT or ACT. However, the same is not the case for APs, as there are many reasons students don't take AP exams. Whether the AO takes the time to find out if the high school requires students to take the AP exam is doubtful. Most high schools do not have such a requirement.
Anonymous
Post 11/10/2023 08:44     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Our counselor told us UMD does NOT recalculate GPA. Is that true?
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 15:05     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
^^hasn’t taken SAT yet but PSAT was 1500 (which would convert to 1560).
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 15:02     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
It’s a little crazy but my junior MCPS DC has taken all honors/IB/AP courses other than PE I believe, and currently has a 4.94 WGPA.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 14:57     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you think large public colleges are recalculating gpas for each applicant, you are wrong. Some of the temp reviewers they higher probably couldn’t even do this. Only highly selective schools do this. Schools most likely look at unweighted gpa for mcps and fcpd and give preference to AP/IB/DE credits.


Sure, sure, they're "highering" dumb temps.



Schools have an automated algorithm that recalculates GPA according to the school's formula--with whatever other weightings they want in place. I've been a reader for 2 schools--the applicants are already sorted by these academic numbers into categories.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 14:54     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Question about APs. If you take the AP course, do you have to report the AP score? If you do not report it, do colleges assume it was a bad score? I know kids who are getting As in AP classes and 1s and 2s on the tests.


No, you don't have to report the AP test scores unless you want to receive college credit for them. Colleges will require certain scores to give you credit, but they don't have to see them for admissions.


If I'm an AO at a TO school, isn't it a logical extension to assume an applicant applying TO performed poorly (for T25 schools, maybe less than 1500; for schools in the next bracket, maybe less than 1360)? Likewise, if you don't see the AP test scores (and yes, I understand that some don't take the test for every AP class they take), isn't it a logical extension that the applicant performed poorly (3 or below for some, 2 or below for the most rigorous, I guess)?
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 14:39     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:Question about APs. If you take the AP course, do you have to report the AP score? If you do not report it, do colleges assume it was a bad score? I know kids who are getting As in AP classes and 1s and 2s on the tests.


No, you don't have to report the AP test scores unless you want to receive college credit for them. Colleges will require certain scores to give you credit, but they don't have to see them for admissions.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 13:44     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
And what AP score should you report? 3 or higher?
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 13:40     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Question about APs. If you take the AP course, do you have to report the AP score? If you do not report it, do colleges assume it was a bad score? I know kids who are getting As in AP classes and 1s and 2s on the tests.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 13:08     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you think large public colleges are recalculating gpas for each applicant, you are wrong. Some of the temp reviewers they higher probably couldn’t even do this. Only highly selective schools do this. Schools most likely look at unweighted gpa for mcps and fcpd and give preference to AP/IB/DE credits.


For schools that require the SRAR, the student has basically plugged everything in for them, so they can just run their program and recalculate instantly. Yes, large schools do that.

For Pitt the student needs to enter everything from the transcript into a template. My assumption is that this is how the school easily recalculates.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 13:06     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:If you think large public colleges are recalculating gpas for each applicant, you are wrong. Some of the temp reviewers they higher probably couldn’t even do this. Only highly selective schools do this. Schools most likely look at unweighted gpa for mcps and fcpd and give preference to AP/IB/DE credits.


For schools that require the SRAR, the student has basically plugged everything in for them, so they can just run their program and recalculate instantly. Yes, large schools do that.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 12:54     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:If you think large public colleges are recalculating gpas for each applicant, you are wrong. Some of the temp reviewers they higher probably couldn’t even do this. Only highly selective schools do this. Schools most likely look at unweighted gpa for mcps and fcpd and give preference to AP/IB/DE credits.


Sure, sure, they're "highering" dumb temps.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 12:32     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:When the college sees that a student took 15 APs and shared that they were AP Scholars for 3 years and report out that they have 12 5's and 3 4's - they see a student who mastered the AP content and it matches the "A" on the transcript.
When the college sees 15 APs and no mention of AP scholar - they know that there was massive grade inflation. This is not rocket science.



You don't need to "share" AP Scholar. You send the scores directly.

It's basic geology.

Fixed the rock -
but you can call out AP Scholar as an award on the common AP. My assumption is that students who want to drive home that they had strong performance on AP exams are doing that.
Anonymous
Post 11/09/2023 11:32     Subject: Question about GPAs over 4.0
Anonymous wrote:15 AP can not be common nationwide. Most schools limit enrollment to 11th and 12th graders.


It'a not common, but the most selective schools aren't common either.