<p>Many colleges, especially the top colleges with holistic admissions take the time to examine more closely other aspects of your application besides your gpa & test scores.
Thats where I would focus my attention.</p>
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You don’t understand what a scale is. If the highest grade you can get is a 98, the sale is 1-98.
Why do I get the feeling that a whole bunch of teachers and administrators at OP’s school have been comforting themselves with that very fact for some time?</p>
<p>who is the princple of the school? mayor bloomberg? you live in NYC, you should be used to the silliness. gradudate and move to austin,fort lauderdale or nashville (IMO)</p>
<p>I would totally go crazy on them if I was you. But then again, the people in my school’s consoling office joke that I’m their “neediest” student and I’m pretty sure the old secretary hated me haha. But hey if you’re like me and take that stuff really seriously then do it.</p>
<p>With regard to Binghamton:</p>
<p>Since grades were self-reported, this change can be self-reported as well.</p>
<p>You could send a letter stating something like My school changed the numerical portion grading system, here is my new self-reported transcript. My letter grades are unchanged. If you have any questions, please call [insert name and number of the good GC]. Thank you very much for your interest in me.</p>
<p>First CALM DOWN…seriously calm down. This isn’t a scandal or some plot to undermine your success.</p>
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THIS…</p>
<p>In addition, my son’s grading scale was changed halfway through his high school career. On his transcript it clearly states the two different grading scales for 9-10 and 11-12. It gives context to the grades earned during those time periods.</p>
<p>Simply politely go in and state you have noticed a change. Tell them you are wondering how this is going to be reported and documented to universities on your transcript. Give them a chance to explain the process before you blow a nutty on them. It may be a very simple explanation and you will have expended a lot of energy for nothing.</p>
<p>zobroward - Sorry, I can’t let a slight on my city go without comment. First, you spelled “principal” incorrectly, the head of a school is “al” not “le.” Second, why should this kid move down south? Not to get into an argument or discussion, just couldn’t let it slide.</p>
<p>OP - Relax, as others have said, you are far from the first student to be in this situation. Especially at a SUNY school, they have seen many NYC school mishaps I’m sure.</p>
<p>CSIHSIS – I can tell you feel strongly about this. I think you might get a better response from the administration if you approach it from the mature standpoint of “I’m just looking to make the system more fair for other students”. Would that approach make sense?</p>
<p>Spoke with the college counselor and she said she doesn’t go by ARIS and it’s not updated, which doesn’t really make sense but whatever. And I told one of my teachers who’s pretty much a bro about these matters and he said he would bring it up in the faculty meeting (which was today) so I’ll see how that went tomorrow.</p>
<p>You don’t understand what a scale is. If the highest grade you can get is a 98, the sale is 1-98.</p>
<p>Thank you for insulting me, and no, it’s out of 100 and you don’t know how my school works. My average was 100.47 and it’s now a 99.3. Clearly it is now 98/100 and not 98/98. So thank you.</p>
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??? I’m not insulting you. You aren’t explaining this in a way that can be understood. But good luck in sorting it out. None of this will mean squat in your college applications, by the way.</p>
<p>If this is what you choose to get upset about, I question how well you’ll be able to deal with the real world (and even college), where people often make choices that you aren’t going to able to control. In the grand scheme of your application, this does not matter.</p>
<p>Personally, I struggle to see how that change is going to affect any colleges you apply to-- your grades are still fantastic, and you are not going to be rejected becuase of a 1.17 pt change on a scale of 100. Besides, since most colleges convert GPAs to a standard 4.0 scale, the change in your GPA is .0468. That’s, at most, five hundredths, and there is no school out there that would have accepted you before that will not accept you now, because of a five hundredths change in your GPA.</p>
<p>I care less about the grade than I do the fact that my school is the only place in the world that would do this.</p>
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You need to see more of the world if you think that…</p>
<p>I think getting credit for the economics class might be important, if you need it to graduate, but otherwise, let it go. Colleges don’t care about a one point difference, and neither should you. The guidance counselor can include a note with the transcript to explain.</p>