[Dim Sum]

The topic said it all. My School will send my unweighted GPA to my college instead of my weighted GPA. They said that the will only use my weighted GPA for my ranking, but as for colleges, they send the college my unweighted GPA instead. Is this bad? Will this effect the college I want to get into? Since I transfered from a private school to a public school, they said that that I will never make the top 5% because my grades were graded with the private school's grading system. So they now they need to change my grading and stuff. So does that means that if I take AP classes, it won't help me much?

[joogrlpekaun]

The AP classes won't help your unweighted GPA, but they'll help by boosting your course rigor, hence still making you a more attractive applicant if you do well. Many schools unweight everyone's GPA anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much; schools will know it's unweighted. Plus it stills counts for ranking, which is helpful. And at some schools you can get college credit if you do well on the AP tests.

[Soy]

well you see the thing is that the priority list for colleges, go in order when they are looking at the transcripts are , from 1) the diffcultity level of your schedule (ie ap would help you there) 2) Sat and Act Scores 3)GPA 4)Extra Actvities.

i guess if you do well on your Ap exam and stuff, that could also boost your chances.

i hope that kinda helps ><

[josebiwasabi]

weighted gpa doesn't matter. some entire states don't even weight gpas. do you really think colleges are going to keep the same grades if you send in your transcript with a 4.5 and someone else from a different state that got the same letter grades as you in the same classes got a 4.0 (due to living in a state w/o weighted grades)?

[carol]

All colleges "reweigh" GPAs according to their own scale so don't worry about how it'll look for college.

[chinese tears <3]

i don't think it really matters, most schools don't use the weighted system. instead, the universities do it themselves or they don't even use the weighted system. and like mentioned, the admission people consider the level of your classes so even if your gpa isn't the best but you took APs then you're okayy.

[Freshh]

most colleges only take unweighted gpas :/ that just means they won't count your PE, TA, & IWE, etc grades

[sgwannabe]

doesn't matter. no problems. in fact, my school does that too...we don't weight our GPA's at all...