GPA Question

Jersrydad,
Some questionaires ask for weighted and unweighted.

Use what's best!

The college admissions' offices will use their own method to calculate GPA. The NCAA Clearinghouse will use yet another method. Don't worry about any of that.

Use the weighted one for now.

I'm surprised you can send them in yourself. Most colleges want them sent directly from the HS.

If the "weighted" is the GPA that takes into account the weighting for advanced course, by all means list the weighted GPA. That is both the correct and appropriate thing to do.

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Originally posted by Catch15:
I'm surprised you can send them in yourself. Most colleges want them sent directly from the HS.

Catch15 - The only reason we are sending the transcript is because the schools requested us to do so. Sounds like both ways are appropriate.

So it sounds like the consensus is to use the weighted GPA. If we put do use the weighted GPA on the questionnaires should we identify the GPA as weighted? I would hate for anyone to think we were doing any false advertising.

jerseydad - In the end, it won't matter. They'll calculate it themselves from the transcript...and they may calculate it differently than your son's HS or even you would.

Catch15 - Many schools asked us to send our son's transcript ourselves. As long as its an authorized (signed) copy from the HS it serves their purposes fine for now. I had our son's HS Vice-Principal sign a dozen or so for just this purpose. Never a problem with any of it.

There is nothing dishonest anout using a weighted GPA. It is calculation based on the degree of difficulty of the course work.

GPA #1 - 3.5 - includes PreCal, AP chemistry and biology, Honors English and History

GPA #2 - 3.5 - Includes Basket weaving, book binding, and hog tying.

When they look at the transcript they will see what the course work is. Use the weighted GPA - that's why it is there.

Watch it Redhead, hog tying is in fact considered an honors course in some parts of the country

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Originally posted by jerseydad:
Watch it Redhead, hog tying is in fact considered an honors course in some parts of the country.

Yeah, but not in Jersey!

Hey - I grew up in East Texas - I could also add :
1. Hauling hay
2. Cutting pulp wood
3. Killing/field dressing and cooking a "variety" of wildlife

Please - no harm intended - I come from a long line of proud peasants.

quote:

Originally posted by Redhead:
Hey - I grew up in East Texas - I could also add :
1. Hauling hay
2. Cutting pulp wood
3. Killing/field dressing and cooking a "variety" of wildlife

Please - no harm intended - I come from a long line of proud peasants.

Sorry Redhead, you hit kind of close to home on that one. (you do know I was kidding right?)

While I currently live in Jersey, I too am from that humble peasant stock you mentioned; I am actually a native of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. (Kentucky Colonel wannabe) I happen to be a former member of the Future Farmers of America and 4H Club (can’t remember what the 4 H’s stand for, a little help Lafmom?), so I was rather skilled in some of the things you listed. And proud of it I might add!

Don't forget:
1. Cow tipping
2. Mucking stalls
3. Hunting for Snip (you can hold the bag)

I guess you can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy!

Add to the list:

1.Stealing water melons
2.Frog gigging
3.Driving around the courthouse all night on the weekends (honestly that is what everyone did for entertainment. The closest movie theatre was 40 miles away)
4.Wrapping houses (toilet paper)
5. Riding horses all day

Necessity is the mother of invention

quote:

Originally posted by Redhead:
Hey - I grew up in East Texas - I could also add :
1. Hauling hay
2. Cutting pulp wood
3. Killing/field dressing and cooking a "variety" of wildlife

Please - no harm intended - I come from a long line of proud peasants.

and advanced degrees at Son04's school are available in mudbug peeling, sausage making and catfish frying........ahhhYEEEEEE!!!!

If your from my part of Texas it's pronounced:

Thee-A-ter

We also used a the two pronged frog gig and not the 22 rifle.

Yes - Except where I was from we went to "the show". That slips out now and then - I was thrilled to hear my next door neighbor (who grew up in Wichita Falls) say the same thing. Also, we "fix supper" as opposed to "cooking dinner". If I am planning to purchase food, it would translate to "fixin' to go to the store." Simple!

........movie picture show?

The tank with the bullfrogs is over yonder!

Y'ALL!!!!!!!!!!

And to think, this used to be an interesting and informative thread.

Isn't it ironic that a question about GPA scores of all things has transformed into a bad knock off of Hee Haw (70's TV show of all those kids out there) Salute!

Jerseydad - I was planning to give them (teasingly) a hard time for hijacking your thread.....then realized you were one of the culprits.