Ok, so I should know this, and I thought I did but then a kid corrected me on one of the threads so now I am confused. I thought that anything 93 (average of your grades) and above was a “4.0”. What the heck, can someone tell me? I need to fill out a couple of recruiting questionnaires for my son’s soccer team. Argh! His school doesn’t report GPA so I thought I had done it correctly myself and I am now worried that I “lied” on the form.
I just averaged all his grades and looked on an online chart I found.to convert the number to a 4.0 scale.
TIA!
I think some schools might do it differently but typically 93+ is a 4.0
You need to convert by course and then average. A 93 average could have a 60 buried in there, and would most assuredly not be a 4.0.
Ok. Thanks. I wasn’t sure if I needed to convert by course first
A 93 is often an A-, which is 3.67. (At some schools, but none I have been involved with, it’s a B+, which is a 3.33.) It depends on where the breaks are.
But if you are calling 93 an A, 90_92 are A-, 98-100 are A+, and 93 to 97 are the A. (3,5,3).
And yes, you should convert by course first. (Many colleges don’t want “non-core” classes, such as art, etc in there either but I doubt you need to worry about that for this purpose.)
In any case, it’s good enough!
FWIW, once you are a student at one of the more rigorous schools often mentioned on here, you can pretty much bank on having more course grades below a 93 than above it. It’s very difficult to get above a 93 - especially if you are taking Honors/Accelerated courses. Also, many (if not most) schools do not weight courses. So that Honors/Accelerated/AP course will not give you a “bump” in GPA at many schools on this thread.