<p>I'm not sure if this has already been a thread so here goes.</p>
<p>Does anyone else agree that it is not fair that schools can adopt their own grading scales?</p>
<p>I know of other schools in which a 90 (or 89.5) is an A. Whereas my school requires a 92.5 or 93 for an A. You would think that college admissions staff would factor that in, but I know my school doesn't include percents or scales on our transcripts. </p>
<p>It hasn't effected me yet, but it is still crap that kids at schools like mine have to work 3% harder for the same grade.</p>
<p>Either way that extra 3 or 4 percent is especially important and makes your chances higher. We would normally think that everything is proportionate, but once you hit the 90’s it is FAR from proportionate. You should aim for much higher than a borderline 90, though.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t set the grading scale. My school district (the 11th largest in the US) mandates the grading scale. Our scale is A = 90. That just seems natural. A 92 being a B sounds absurd, IMO.</p>
<p>Achieving specific percents at different schools isn’t the same either. How do you know that getting an 89 (thus a B+ or a B) at school-A is easier than getting a 93 (thus an A) at school-B? Hell, it’s not even the same for different teachers in the same school. Further, it’s not even the same for the same teachers during different times of the day. There’s no point in standardizing grades, which is why standardized tests like the SAT and ACT exist. </p>
<p>BMan22, likely a 92 at his school is an A-.</p>
<p>Yes, but we all know when youre in 4-6 honors/ap classes you don’t always put in enough effort to boost that 94 to a 97 when all you need is a 93.</p>
<p>I’m homeschooled, but the christian school that does my oversight recently changed from 93% for an A to 90%. I do know that most guidance counselor reports ask for the grading scale though.</p>
<p>Don’t even complain. 95% is an A for our social studies classes- including AP courses.
and our AP math classes consider a 94% an A and a 92% for an A-.
No roundings either.</p>
<p>Some teachers are really strict with rounding percentage points up. But I think that in most high schools, teachers are more lenient than in college. I heard that in certain colleges, a 90 can be considered a B+ and not an A-…That sounds unfair to me.</p>
<p>We have +/- in my school, and 90=A-. I am still a bit confused when it comes to calculating our GPA though (quirky system). But if you take a “full junior schedule” at ym school (3 hard APs and 2 hard Honors classes), it is next to impossible to not get a bunch of low 90s if you want to have a normal life. If you studied crazy hard, then maybe you could eke out 95s. It all depends on your school though.</p>