What is the difference between weighed and unweighed GPA ?

Answer 1

Many high schools give an extra point for Honors and AP classes. For instance, an "A" in regular English nets you 4 points while an "A" in Honors English gets you 5. This is weighted. If the g.p.a. is unweighted, your honors class loses a point, giving you only 4. Weighted g.p.a.s give students an incentive to take harder classes.

GPAs are tabulated by adding up all the points and then adding up the classes. The number of points is divided by the number of classes. For instance:

Class Grade Weighted Unweighted
AP English B 4 3
Honors Math A 5 4
AP History C 3 2
Art B 3 3
Physics B 3 3
Spanish 3 A 4 4

Your weighted GPA is 22 points divided by 6 classes or 3.67; your unweighted gpa is 3.17 (19 points divided by 6 classes).

There is a lot of controversy about weighted classes. Some colleges are dropping weighted gpas and including only unweighted gpas because they assume that students that apply to their college should be taking the hardest courses anyway.

Some high schools are able to offer an array of Honors and AP courses while others cannot support these programs which leaves their students behind in the weighted gpa universe.

At some schools, classes that you get college credit for are also given the extra weight.

Also, it becomes a game. Time was when, if you got straight A's you were valedictorian. But now, students aiming at top honors have to play a strategic game. The valedictorian at my high school actually had to drop an unweighted class in his senior year and take "home" because he would lose his top perch if he didn't.

Answer 2

weighed gpa is a gpa in which extra curricular activities are taken in to account.that is not the case in unweighed

Answer 3

a weighed includes the extra ponits for honors and ap classes. Unweighted do not include those extra points...