<p>A B+ student would be someone with an unweighted GPA of 3.4-3.49. At least, that is my school's definition of a B+</p>
<p>admissions to any of these schools is basically a crap shoot- just do your best- keep your grades up, get involved in ECs, get good recomendations, and make sure brown knows your level of interest- that's really all you can do</p>
<p>best of luck!</p>
<p>oh, that's a relief. </p>
<p>i know my 3.7 unweighted isn't stellar, but at least i have a ~4.5 weighted..i was kinda worried i would be in the "B+ student" range.</p>
<p>weighted grades are not what determines your overall "letter grade," since that is just grade inflation (and it varies from school to school depending on Honors and APs offered, school competitiveness, etc., so you can't set a scale on weighted GPA).</p>
<p>"i know my 3.7 unweighted isn't stellar, but at least i have a ~4.5 weighted..i was kinda worried i would be in the "B+ student" range."</p>
<p>I think it really depends how your school calculates it and what the college in question does with that information. </p>
<p>For example, at our high school a B+ goes up to 92. Since they don't use a 4-point scale, you have to feed the number into a converter. The converters seem to say that a 95 average, for example, is a 4.0, even though there is a lot of room between 95 and 100.</p>
<p>Anyway, what will probably count more for most colleges is where you fall in the deciles at your school. Even if your high school doesn't officially rank (and ours neither weights nor ranks), they often give out information in their profile that enables colleges to more or less figure out where your average falls. Chances are that if your school weights grades, they rank by the weighted average.</p>
<p>Of course, using the profile to estimate rank can be awfully inaccurate, since the range of averages is often shown using last year's graduating class, and your class might be quite different in size and performance. It's probably worst for kids whose averages hover around the top tenth line. Who knows which side of it some colleges might decide to put them on? Maybe some colleges just accept that a rank isn't available and move on.</p>
<p>For that matter, some schools recalculate averages based on their own criteria (Stanford, I think), and some accept the methodology of the high school (Yale, for example). Which means that at Stanford, daveb is correct, but at Yale he isn't.</p>
<p>I wasn't talking about how colleges assess ranked GPAs... Just what indicates your overall "letter grade."</p>
<p>Given how differently high schools grade and weight (weights are all over the map, from 4 to 6 for Hon/AP courses) I would say that GPA per se is the least important item on the transcript - many colleges will ignore it. Course rigor, how you did on the courses the colleges care about (ie: the solids, not the electives or the lighter-weight courses), and how you did in the context of your school IF you took the most rigorous courses (it really doesn't matter what your rank or GPA is if you didn't - you are not a contender at a top college) are what matter.</p>
<p>Interesting</p>
<p>If You Want Good High School Grades, Move to Texas</p>
<p>By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 30, 2007; 9:35 AM</p>
<p>Ten years ago, I had the good fortune to win the confidence of two energetic teachers, Cliff Gill and Don Phillips at Mamaroneck High School in Westchester County, N.Y. They told me exactly how they assessed their students.</p>
<p>Gill, a math teacher, was tough. If a student missed two homework assignments, five points were subtracted from the student's 100-point report card grade. A third missed assignment meant another five points off. Everyone at that school knew how hard it was to get an A in Mr. Gill's class.</p>
<p>Phillips, a social studies teacher, was easy. He called himself the Great Grade Inflator. If a student with poor writing skills did his best on a paper, Phillips was inclined to give the student just as high a grade as a top student who turned in college-quality work. About 90 percent of the grades in Phillips's history courses were 90 or above on that 100-point scale.</p>
<p>If</a> You Want Good High School Grades, Move to Texas</p>
<p>which is why colleges want SAT IIs and APs and other external indicators to rationalize a transcript against....</p>