calculating GPA

Applying to College
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<p>Sorry if this isn't the right place for this...
My school gives an NGA instead of a GPA on report cards, so I have to calculate it myself. I'm using this <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com/html/academicTracker-howtoconvert.html"&gt;http://www.collegeboard.com/html/academicTracker-howtoconvert.html&lt;/a>
Do you just use final grades for each year and average the GPAs for each class and then average those final GPAs together? Or can I average the final grades of each class and use that to find the GPA?</p>

<p>Ex: If I take the GPA of each class for semester 1 and average them together, I have a GPA of 3.87. However, my average grade was 94.57 which would make the GPA 4.0. What will be on my transcript/what will colleges consider it?</p>

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<p>Actually, 94.57 is 3.75, I think. It’s basically an A, just a smidge under.</p>

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<p>Collegeboard says 93-100 is 4.0. Where does what you say come from? Which should I use?
And should classes like band or electives be counted?</p>

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<p>The first two questions you just asked are the same thing mathematically</p>

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<p>I don’t remember it exactly now, but wouldn’t you put down, 94.57 out of 100, or 3.87 out of 4.0?<br>
My kid’s school used each semester’s grades to calculate GPA and they used letter grades.</p>

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<p>I guess it doesn’t really matter since schools will figure it out how they want it, but I was curious.
Example grades: 94 90 100 91 97 90 100
avg = 94.57
convert to GPA as per collegeboard’s thing: 4.0 3.7 4.0 3.7 4.0 3.7 4.0
avg = 3.87
Maybe I’m doing this incorrectly? </p>

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<p>Use 94.57</p>

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<p>You don’t convert individual grades. Take your GPA and convert it to the 4.0 scale.</p>

<p>You have a 4.0.</p>

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<p>You don’t convert, you use what’s on your transcript. On the common app, it asks for your GPA. You put down 94.57 out of 100, then your GC will send in your official transcript which would confirm the GPA you put on the application.</p>

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<p>Plus most top schools will recompute your GPA anyway, basically a custom weighted GPA.</p>

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<p>Thanks ormdad and oldfort. </p>