<p>Do top 10 schools care about how many A- someone gets vs As? I have a disproportionate number of A minuses (70% A-, 30% As) through the first sem of my jr year although my cgpa is 4 UW.</p>
<p>It depends on what your true UW GPA is. I believe that’s usually calculated with 4.0 = A, 3.8 = A-, 3.3 = B+, etc. For top 10 colleges, you’re pretty much good if you’re over 3.9.</p>
<p>A- and A both are 4.0 in my school. My transcript shows a 4.0 UW cgpa.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t differentiate between As or A-s. It’s just A, B, C, D, etc.</p>
<p>Top schools would care for the differences, but top schools also heavily emphasize quality of applicant (rather than just the numbers) such as ECs, essays, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t think top schools can differentiate between As and A-s. My high school transcript only shows the letter grade, not the percentage or the minuses or the pluses.</p>
<p>Your response makes sense. I also know of schools that just assign a letter grade ( no minus or plus). Unfortunately my school transcript shows a minus and a. That’s why i was wondering how Stanford reconciles school to school, or if they don’t care. Also my school only indicates unweighted gpa and that minimizes all the honors courses ive taken thus far. Any admits want to please chime in? TIA</p>
<p>I’m not intimately familiar with how Stanford handles GPA, but I know that some colleges of similar caliber (Princeton, for example, does this with some applicants) recalculate your GPA, and they often do so with the system I mentioned in my earlier post, where an A- counts as less than an A, regardless of how your school treats UW GPA. So your “true” UW GPA is actually lower than a 4.0. You could try recalculating your GPA on your own, or try to think how you compare to other top students in your grade when it comes to proportions of A-/A.</p>
<p>Sure but wouldn’t that cause a disparity when comparing with schools which state only letter grades without minus or plus(dchau’s earlier post). At any rate, it is what it is…thx</p>
<p>Yes, it would, but that’s what they do. In most systems an A- counts as less than an A, and a lot of colleges take that into consideration. Still, I wouldn’t stress over it too much.</p>