WSCA High School GPA Calculations
Students earn a grade 5 credits per semester of each HIGH SCHOOL course taken.
Course grades, credits and GPA are listed ont he students high school transcript.
Divide the total grade points earned by the total high school course credits attempted.
WSCA issues both unweighted and weighted GPAs.
Only calculates gpa based on credits taken after middle school completion.
Automatically calculated by PowerSchool and located on the student's transcript
WSCA's gpa calculation is the typical calculation formula used by regional high schools.
WSCA UNWEIGHTED GPA
Cannot be above 4.0
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Calculate UNWEIGHED NUMERATOR:
Add up points for each semester grade:
A = 4 points, B = 3 points, C = 2 points
Note: For any outside college courses on your transcript, give yourself TWO of the same grade. Example if you got a B, add in "3" twice.*
Calculated DENOMINATOR:
Add the total number of high school semester courses completed.
Note: If you have any college courses listed on your WCSA transcript*, add 2 semesters per class taken.
One college semester equals 2 semesters of high school courses.
This will be the denominator you use for BOTH your weighted and unweighted GPAs
NUMERATOR/ DENOMINATOR = UNWEIGHTED WEIGHTED GPA
WSCA WEIGHTED GPA
May be above 4.0. Factors AP & Honors points
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Calulate your WEIGHTED GPA NUMERATOR:
Take the UNWEIGHTED NUMERATOR you calculated previously.
Add to your numerator 1 additional point for each semester of an AP or Honors course taken at WSCA **
Take the same DENOMINATOR from your unweighted gpa.
WEIGHTED GPA NUMERATOR/ DENOMINATOR = WEIGHTED GPA
Only AP and Honors Coursework taken at WSCA are awarded honors grade points. AP and Honors courses are awarded this designation through the high school course submission process, as determined by the University of California high school course approval system.
How Colleges & Universities Calculate Student GPAs
High schools nationwide use a variety of different scales (such as a 10.0 scale) and weighting practices.
Ex, some schools do not issue additional points for weighted grades, or may calculate gpa based on a 10.0 scale.
Due the variation, colleges often recalculate applicants' GPAs using their own formulas to ensure they can evaluate all students fairly.
Colleges will often consider grades earned in high school, taken through both high- school and college courses, and use their own formula to calculate their GPA, based on their priorities.
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CSU/UC Unweighted, Weighted
& Weighted Capped GPAS
CSUs and UCs consider three gpas for each student. All calculations are factored using grades earned in 10th & 11th grades from A-G (college prep) and UC/CSU transferable college coursework.*
Unweighted: without extra points for honors, AP or UC-approved college coursework.
Capped weighted: up to 8 semesters of extra points for AP, Honors and UC-approved college coursework. Maxes out at approximately 4.3 GPA.
Total weighted: extra points for AP, Honors and UC- approved college coursework, without a maximum capped number of extra points.
UC/CSU GPA Context
May post their acceptance data with weighted, capped GPA, which can be misleading. Most also consider your uncapped GPA as well. More competitive UCs and CSUs may consider total weighted more than weighted capped.
Considers your GPA as a percentage related to other applicants.
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Exceptions: Impacted CSUs may factor using additional formulas.