AS others stated you place the uw. Also as others have stated the wgpa varies not only state by state, but school district to school district.
I wouldn't sweat over it because as jcleppe stated the boards are known to re-weight to their formula.
Not only in the transcript will it show your curriculum, but also the school gives a profile. This is why they may re-weight your gpa, yes, even your uwgpa.
More specifically what they are looking at in the profile is how competitive the school is compared to other schools. That profile will give insider info:
1. How many go Ivy, 4 private, 4 yr public, 2 yr, trade or nothing.
~~~25% going Ivy, 50 % 4 yr, 10% 2 yr, 10% trade, 5% nothing. Will state to them that the school is more competitive than the one who has 0% Ivy.
Think about it, if you rank top 20% and 25% are Ivy, your school is very competitive. If you rank 10% and nobody goes Ivy, it isn't as competitive.
2. Profile also will tell them if you took the most rigorous curriculum offered If they state they have 16 AP/IB courses and you took 2.
You can have that 4.0 uwgpa, but the candidate with a 3.5 uwgpa will look better since they pushed it to the limit regarding difficult curriculum.
Anyone else think schools should simplify and coordinate GPA systems? Using similar systems would be more conducive to allowing a more equal representation and streamline admission decisions..... Just my opinion.
I agree, but there is a problem with this idea, certain states would game the system (grading up), they would do this because they don't want to be #50 out of 50 states for the lowest gpa ranking. Imagine the outcry from parents if we changed to that system and yr one out of the gate your state is # 50? People buy homes due to location. Number 1 location issue? School system. People will buy smaller homes, or commute long times, payer higher RE taxes, etc. to send their kids to the best school system. It will tick them off to no end to find out nationally they are in the bottom.
What I believe we should do is get rid of the EOG/EOC/SOL, whatever your state calls the pathway tests (3,5,8, 10) and make it like an SAT. Or what I had as a child (Ohio and California). Make it like the SAT/ACT or AP tests. Every kid takes the same test on the same day across the nation. It would be better than every state making their own test. It would be another tool for colleges to use for selection.
I am also against our current SAT/ACT system. Go back to the 80's where superscoring did not occur to this level. You were allowed to take it 2x, best score wins. If you took it a 3rd time you risked the fact that they would now avg all 3 scores.
Let's be real, how many kids walk around and say they have 1500 out of 1600? Tons, now ask them how many times they took it to get that score? Some of these kids have 5, or 6 exams. In other words they learned how to take the test. Teaching to test. Parents are culpable because they allow it, but if we stopped it, we would do more assistance to our children. I am also against the writing portion. Colleges obviously still have not accepted this for the most part, because if they did, they wouldn't ask for essays. They would also be showing from statistical POV scores out of the 2400 range, whereas, many to this day still show just 1600. The writing portion IMPO is a waste of time and pure BS because it is subjective. Even a 17 yr old did a study and showed the kids who wrote the most in this portion got the highest score and that grammatical errors were not an issue. He had a high score, took 3 SATs, and knew he could through a way the lowest score. On one he wrote more, but used incorrect language(run ons, definitions, etc) and mis-spelled on purpose, but he filled the entire section. That was his highest score. The next time he wrote with no grammatical errors, but did not fill the page to the end. That was his lowest score.
This made the news a few months ago. Of course college board stated this was a fluke, but if you know how they grade the written you can understand why it needs to go. OBTW, I have no issue with it if you think mpo is sour grapes. Both of my kids were in the high 600/low 700s.