I can't recall, but doesn't the portal only show the uwcgpa?
They do look at it, but if I recall it is from a different perspective. It is from your course curriculum aspect. The GC will submit a school profile and in that report it will say how many AP/IBs are offered. Percentage of students that take APs. The weight that they assign to APs. If class rank is figured into their system using uwcgpa or wcgpa.
~~ Some schools rank using just the uwcgpa, which means the kid that took all the easy classes could rank higher than the kid that took all APs.
So as you can see, they do give a look and weight to the wgpa. It is also why they want the GC to submit the school profile so they can get every candidate on an equal footing.
Again, it comes down to the fact that HS differ not only nationally, but can differ from county to county in the same state. It would not be fair to ding the candidate where the school does not allow anyone to take APs until their junior or senior year, regardless of how academically gifted they are, while at another HS they get to chose as freshmen between standard, honors or AP classes like Bio.
JMPO, but without knowing the weight given, you can't take it with more than a grain of salt. A 4.37 might seem high, but some schools give it on a 5.0 or even 6.0 scale. Would you still be impressed? Or would a 4.17 on a 4.5 scale seem better? The reality is the lower one is better because the weight is less. Which is why again they look at everything on your transcript, including the profile.
~ I believe somewhere in the bowels here they have said that they use a 4.5 for APs, so again, yes somewhere in the PAR it does come into play, but not sure if it is a direct or indirect manner. (Indirect would be profile, rank changing,etc)
I am sure Flieger and Christcorp will respond and correct my post! So hold tight until they do!