Any Canadians willing to help a fellow canuck out..

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>Hey,
I have a question for Canadians at UCLA because other people do not seem to be able to answer this question. My question is how do canadian grades on the american grade system of 4.0 GPA... Here, 80 plus is A and i have two 80-85.. 3 85-90 and 1 90+... So basically all As and i am in IB so it is harder than normal Canadian schools. how do i look? .. what kind of grades did you Canadians have when entering UCLA? Does A mean automatically 4.0 GPA?? Thanks for your help!!</p>

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<p>Hmm well I'm a fellow canadian haha, but can't realllyy answer your question. But since noone else has yet, I hope what I cann say will reassure you.</p>

<p>I did the British A-levels which also grade 80+ A etc. And they have a different grading scale where it's A-F and E is considered a Pass. </p>

<p>Basically I got my guidance counsellor to explain the grading system, and add an approximate conversion scale to US grades. </p>

<p>In the end my grades were
ABBBB</p>

<p>So not quite UCLA caliber in the normal US grading system, but accounting for the different grading scales, what the A, B, C grades were 'curved' against etc. it worked out to be acceptable.</p>

<p>So moral of this story is, if your grades would be considered good in your systems standards then just remember to add a note in your application, and the differences should be taken into account.</p>

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<p>Mashrur, definitely see if your school guidance/academic counselor can help you out with this one. I'm sure there are other Canadian applicants, so UCLA will have probably encountered your grading scale before.</p>

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<p>UCLA considers the Canadian 90% as an A, but ask your school's guidance counselor to confirm this. If UCLA considers the Canadian 80% as an A then the vast majority of Canadian applicants to UCLA would have 4.0 unweighted GPAs... :rolleyes:</p>

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<p>yea so it really depends on what that 'A' means, i know in some of the HKA-levels in Hong Kong, A's represent the top 5%. I mean compared with like the top...I think it might be 20% given A's in the US curves, the scale is completely different.</p>