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I was just curious to know how USNA calculates a candidate's GPA. Do they include community service, ECAs, sports, etc...?
For your GPA, your grades, difficulty of classes, class rank, size of your class (are you ranked 2 out of 10, or 2 out of 400) and school difficulty are all summed together to give you a GPA that can be compared, apples-to-apples, with other candidates. This formula is also not published. This is the question you asked.
Might help explain why a candidate with a gpa of 3.3 wins an appointment while another with a gpa of 3.9 is rejected?The reason this is worth bearing is due to the fact that many of the 'tricks' which high school students use to inflate their GPA may actually prove detrimental to their overall whole person assessment.
Might help explain why a candidate with a gpa of 3.3 wins an appointment while another with a gpa of 3.9 is rejected?
^^^^^^
Exactly. And delving into the arena of possibly TMI, but before someone asks, if a school uses weighted scores for honors and AP courses to determine class standing, the scores are adjusted such that the candidate does not receive credit for both the inflated class standing and the individual inputs for each course. Don't ask me how but it is probably why sometimes individuals have trouble contacting the CGO. Not seriously.
Notice the trend here. Take the difficult courses and do the best you can and you will be rewarded.
what if your school doesn't rank students?
what if your school doesn't rank students?