<p>What does your school consider an 87.8% to be? My school considers anything lower than an 88.0 to be a B. What would your school consider this grade to be?</p>
<p>That would also be just a B at my school. They don’t do all that “+”“-” thing when it comes to end of the quarter grades.</p>
<p>B+. We don’t have minuses, though.</p>
<p>See this is why it’s crap. Schools like whichever one Panic goes to consider it a B+ and they don’t even give out B-'s, while my school (the University of Michigan) considers it a B and DOES give out B-'s. </p>
<p>It’s crap because employers and graduate schools will look more favorably upon those students not subjected to U of M’s stupid grading policy because they will have greatly inflated GPA’s.</p>
<p>My school does not have a standard for converting between percentages and letter grades. It’s up to each professor to decide what grade a particular performance is worth. In a few courses 50% is still an A, while in others 90% is a B already.</p>
<p>At my university, we use the most basic system ever: 90-100 is A, 80-89 is B, and so on. No pluses or minuses. All curves are done beforehand so that there’s no discrepancy between classes.</p>
<p>Charles, I agree: the system is crappy and stupid and totally unfair and I love it.</p>
<p>RUTGERS FCKING OWNS.</p>
<p>charlesveritas, grad schools will look at Michigan more favorably than they look at some stupid college where you can get great grades without trying.</p>
<p>^Most colleges aren’t like that, though 
Maybe a CC or something!</p>
<p>My school doesn’t fix percentages to letter grades. It doesn’t make any sense. All it does is force professors to juggle points and percentages to get the grade distribution they want.</p>
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<p>sounds very similar to applying to colleges from high school. At my high school, a 93 got you a B+, which was a 3.5</p>
<p>deal.</p>
<p>At mine, an 88 could be a B or B+ usually, depending on the professor and class. </p>
<p>I was wondering about this variation earlier… A friend at another school got about an 88 in a class which automatically means an A there, but at my school it could be as low as a B or a B+ for the same course. People in the friend’s class had averages way over 100 too…with exams that could be retaken. I don’t have enough information to say it was too easy for a college course…but it’s scary to think that this is what I’m competing with for a job in the future.</p>