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What does "GPA on a 4.0 scale" mean (weighted or unweighted)?Answered
I've seen the term thrown around a lot on college websites, prep blogs, and common data sets. I'd have a hard time believing it isn't weighted, but particularly on the CDSs they always top out at 4.0 (but have almost everyone achieving it, particularly at more competitive schools). So which is it? It seems like a ridiculously commonly used term for it not to have an established meaning.
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Some additional info while no standerized scale for weighted typically AP and IB are whatever grade let’s say an A so a 4 it would become a 5. Honors varies my school it isn’t weighted but more often than not I’d say it’s +.5 so an A would be 4.5. Also some school notably the UCs (UCLA UC Berkeley UCSC UC Irvine etc) use thier own formula to calculate weighted gpa which is what they use in admissions. If you’d like I can link the webpage that explains it