<p>Oh my god! It must be really hard. It's already hard to get a 95% here so... I wouldn't imagine straight 100%'s. A's are 92% here but we have a strange grading scale. If you get a B in PE or Arts (are they counted toward GPA?), no one cares usually. We start being competitive when we have 85% here!</p>
<p>CC makes me feel so... blah! All the ECs, the grades, research and APs, it makes me wonder if I have a shot at an US college :)</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 uw (90+ is a 4.0)
Our school doesn't weight at all, though, so an 89.9 in chem 2 or something will lower it...and our valedictorians are anyone who maintains a 4.0 throughout hs (usually around 5 people, hopefully I can keep A's one more year)</p>
<p>I have a 4.0, and I could be considered a rising senior. It is not that hard at my school, but I know it is much harder at other schools.
A=92-100
So, we get a break. Some school near us have a scale that is like:
A=94-100</p>
<p>How does anyone get anything but an A in PE?</p>
<p>I have a 3.97 UW unfortunately.</p>
<p>PE here is part effort, part ability. So if you're not able to climb a wall, or you have terrible foot-eye coordination, you get a B. And we experiment about 7 or 8 sports in the year, so you're bound to find one where you're more or less good.</p>
<p>^ At my school, all you have to do is dress out and walk a mile on the track each class, and you get an A+. But I am actually kinda athletic, so I sometimes wish it would be more of a challenge.</p>
<p>pe in my school is if the teacher likes you, you get an A if not then a B. It doesnt matter how athletic you are, or how well you do in the class. ***** GYM. I got a B+ this year. I hate gym. THANK GOD COLLEGES DONT COUNT GYM IN THE GPA.</p>
<p>Oh... maintaining a 4.0 average is easy in Canada then... Although I think 80% for honour roll and an A grade is too high. I mean, you should work /somewhat/ to get a 4.0... As I think... I don't think you can even get into university with the very low 4.0s anyway (school grades are all they look at in Canadian universities).</p>
<p>Oh and the universities only care about the best 6 grade 12 courses, too, so there's very little stress about university in Canada.</p>
<p>Well, they look primarily at your grades, but they also take in account your ECS, just not as much as in the US. I saw on the internet that an A requires the same amount of work in the US or in Canada, but that it was much more difficult to get an A, as it's more essay questions and one-answer questions than multiple-choices tests. But my school doesn't give out averages and class rank, just your class grades. There's also grade inflation in some schools in US, so we can't really compare.</p>
<p>There are not many students that get A's, because in Quebec, it's a 92% and more. We all have the same grading scale so... We don't have honour roll though, they give out course awards, in maths, history and other classes, each quarter and at the end of the year, there are awards for the best grade in those classes.</p>
<p>But my non-academic grades dropped my GPA only 3,3% so it's okay with me...</p>
<p>@ cherie 136, Well where I live, there's no room on the application to put ECs. They are only considered if you want scholarships. You sort of put your name and school, and that's about it... So you're in Quebec?</p>
<p>When you say 4.0 GPA, do your schools add up all your grades from all four years of high school? Mine just adds up graduating year GPA. But then again, the system is different so.... </p>
<p>@ <em>poof</em>: Yes, I'm in Quebec. Are you in Canada? My guidance counselor told me that for certain programs, they look at ECs when everyone is the same, to decide.</p>
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<p>I can relate a bit on that. We never do worksheets or multiple choice questions at my school. We have mostly labs, projects, and essays. Then there are students who make a 97+ in every class across the street. Many of our teacher simply refuse to give a 96, much less a 100.</p>
<p>I'm the only one in my whole class (about 360 students) to have a 100% in more than two classes. The teachers don't really give 5's (92%) in the final grade, so having more than about 92% is a big goal here. Our class averages turn around 67%-70%.</p>
<p>Do they give out class average on the report card at your schools?</p>
<p>No, we don't get class averages on report cards. I get class averages on online classes and I ask my F2F teachers. No one in my school made a 100 in any class.. not even for a 9 weeks grade. They just aren't given.</p>
<p>Yes, I'm in Ontario, and I have one of the highest grades in my school, too, and I've never had higher than a 97 in a class, so I understand.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure no one at my school has a 4.0 unweighted GPA. my one friend has all As and one A-, but he hasn't taken all rigorous courses. my school goes by weighted GPA anyway, because the classes are so tough.</p>
<p>From what I saw, it's easier to get a 95%+ more in the US than in Canada. Do you have multiple-choice tests and all? We have "competencies",kind of subscores, about 3 by class. Like reading, being able to give answers to scientific problems and such.</p>
<p>I think 100%'s are not very common because it's perfection. You must actually be ahead of your classes to get a 100% here.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 unweighted. My school doesn't use weighting because it has no AP, honors, or IB. But that could also be why I have a 4.0. I've found it ridiculously easy (with the exception of Physics) to get A's in all my classes.</p>