I don't understand the math here
by ndzippy (2018-08-15 17:21:43)

In reply to: High School GPA inflation.  posted by sluredandstumbly

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Let's say a high school student got an A in every class he/she took. Let's say 25% of those classes were AP classes, which care scored on a 5-pt scale vs. a 4-pt scale.

That student would have a 4.25 GPA. It's probably not easy to find students like that.

To land at an average of 4.04 across nearly 6000 new freshman, UGA either has to find an awful lot of them, or refuse to accept any students with a GPA of 3.8 or lower. That's hard to believe for the #54 national university (per US News & World Reports).

One other note: According to the linked page, the numbers you cite are for "High School Core Grade Point Average", which I assume is different than overall high school GPA. Is that true?



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