<p>Hi, so have any of you ever requested/will request for your grades to be converted to U.S. Standards? If so, who did/would you ask, guidance counselor, dean of studies, principal? Was anything requested if agreed? Such as WES tables or some other organization? Or is it just best to send the raw scores to the school? Thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>For the purpose of college applications, your grades should be reported on their original scale. </p>
<p>If you need US equivalent grades for another purpose, you can get unofficial guidelines from WES or the US embassy in your home country, or submit your transcript to a credential evaluation company for an official conversion.</p>
<p>Thank You 
I know that for say…Indian applicants and so forth the colleges would already know about their system but seeing as though my country is underrepresented (I think so atleast, but I don’t know really), I wasn’t too sure.</p>
<p>^ they wuld probably know about your system. the admissions officers are familiar with basically nearly every system. So dont worry. If you want you could include an attachment describing grading in your school. Also the most important thing for you would be class rank- if you are one of the best in your school- this should be high lighted by your guidance counselor.</p>
<p>Hypothetical question: How do you go about converting grades on a 100-point scale to the standard US 4.0 scale? For example, a 95/100 would translate to what on a 4.0 scale?</p>
<p>^ you don’t. seriously, leave that for the admissions officer. they’ll have a better idea based on your curriculum etc.</p>
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depr91 is right that those sorts of conversations are rarely accurate. If you still want to do it (for reasons other than college admissions), the following scale seems to be common for American-style grading:</p>
<p>100-93 - 4.0
93 - 90 - 3.7
87 - 83 - 3.3
83 - 80 - 3.0
etc</p>
<p>To convert your GPA this way, you have to convert each grade individually and then average them. There is no accurate way to convert a GPA on a scale of 100 to a GPA on a 4.0 scale without knowing what the individual grades are.</p>
<p>I wish my school’s grading system was more like the American school’s system, where you have a set number for the +s and -s. At my school it’s:</p>
<p>A: 100-90
B: 89-80
C: 79-70
P: 69-60
Fail: 59 and under</p>
<p>+s are awarded for showing effort in the subject and -s for a lack of effort. The things is, teachers NEVER give pluses from what I’ve seen. And I’ve only seen a an A- once on a classmates report. Which doesn’t make sense since it certainly is not easy to get an A is a subject at my school and theres no way you can get an A without effort. To give a little more insight, my school is comparable to a Thomas Jefferson or Stuyvesant in my country. My school gets the best students in the country. We have a national exam graded on a 0-100 scale and last time I heard you needed atleast a 96 to get placed here. Even though my school is in the Caribbean tons of students get placed in the the top U.S. universities and LACs. So, now that you know a little bit more about my school, would the whole straight A thing still be needed to get into the top schools? Also, what if a student were to get a C in lets say physics, but the overwhelming majority of students get those grades or lower in the subject, would the universities take that into context when reviewing an app? Or would they still expect you to get the A? </p>
<p>Sorry for asking so many questions but I’m just really unsure about this whole thing.</p>
<p>Anyone knows how to convert grades to GPA for Singaporeans?</p>
<p>^ once again, you don’t. let the admissions officers do that.</p>