I live in NC and my school uses the 7 point grading system where A is 100-93 B is 92-85 C is 84-77 D is 76-70 F is 69-0. The unweighted GPA here is A-4 B-3 C-2 D-1 F-0. I see a lot of posts about calculating your “real” GPA and those scales are 10 point with plus/minus etc. I was wondering if there is a “real” GPA and if colleges here really use a 10 point scale for GPA. Cutting out my electives, my unweighted GPA at my school is 3.15, but using the 10 point scale my GPA would be 3.48. If any of this info helps, the transcripts from my school only show the percentages and not the letter grades. I’m also wanting to apply to Western Carolina, App. State, and UNC Asheville.
Colleges are used to recalculating GPAs all the time so you don’t have to worry. If you’re filling out a form/scholarship app which asks for a conversion to a 4.0 scale, your GC should be able to help you.
Colleges will figure out your GPA on a consistent scale…
My daughter did 2 years at a 0-100 scale high school and 2 years at an IB school with a 1-7 point scale. Still have no idea what it is on a 4 point scale, but she got scholarship offers (except at our state flagship, so I emailed them more info to ask if perhaps she got overlooked for scholarships because her GPA was not entered. She did end up getting a scholarship offer.)
OP, your transcripts really won’t show your letter grades? That’s hard to believe when the system already has the percentages mapped to letter grades.
Most high school transcripts in my part of NYS don’t show letter grades either, but the High School Profiles I have seen all include a key showing the point spread for an A, A-, B+, B, B-, etc. The college will be able to convert scales if they wish to do so.
Yes they don’t! I was actually surprised to that most transcripts only show letter grades. I suppose no matter what it would be better to assume that my GPA is 3.15 and try to raise it up.