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Originally Posted by DubaiSis
Catch me up here... what is a weighted GPA?
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Some high schools will grade honors, AP or IB classes on a 5.0 scale instead of a 4.0 scale to reward students who challenge themselves. The resulting GPA is "weighted" for difficulty. It prevents someone who takes all super easy classes from becoming valedictorian, for example, when someone else took a lot of very challenging courses and perhaps received an A- somewhere along the way. Colleges generally look only at unweighted GPAs though.