<p>different schools have slightly different ways of calculating gpas. at my school its a=4, a-=3.7, b+=3.3, b=3, b-=2.7, c+=2.3, c=2, c-=1.7, d+=1.2, d=1, f=0. but 3.4 seems too high, unless you are on a 5 point rather than a 4 point system.</p>
<p>I show that you got a 1.48 for 9th, 2.86 for 10th, 2.92 for 11th, and a 4.0 for 12th....divide those by 4 and it comes to a little over a 2.81, so yeah that 3.4 was way too generous. But you do show an upward trend which colleges really like to. The C's, D's, and F do look bad no matter how try and explain it.</p>
<p>^You can't necessarily use Tarheel's model, since the op had a different number of classes each year.<br>
You have to add the individual gpa up all together and then divide by the number of classes.
Since there were only 5 freshmen classes and 6 senior, the above method puts more emphasis on fresh. year than sr. which isn't entirely accurate.</p>
<p>If you do it the common way (4.0 = A; 3.0 = B; 2.0 = C; 1.0 = D), add them all up (not individually by year), and then divide by total # of classes, then your GPA comes out to ~2.8 - 2.9, which your A's helped bring up considerably.</p>
<p>And I could have miscalculated, so take it lightly.</p>
<p>^I thought maybe you hacked or something. If you hadn't explained that, I would have thought you were a genius.</p>
<p>I have never before seen someone go from a 1.5 and failing a core science to a 4.0 in the IB program in four years. That's truly amazing. Your overall GPA really means nothing in this case.</p>