<p>Do any schools recalculate the GPA this way? so like 4.0=a, 3.0=b...no 3.3s and stuff</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>You mean, A-'s and A's would be treated equally, as well as B+'s, B's, and B-'s?</p>
<p>That'd be odd, considering the difference between a B+ and a B- is HUGE.</p>
<p>yeah, but the difference between an A and and A- can be a 92.4 and a 92.5 (which rounds to a 93)-- so sometimes the differences are in fact negligible</p>
<p>my school doesn't use +s/-s, we do it how u said in ur original post. I've heard that alot of schools use whatever scale u give them, and add or subtract weight.</p>
<p>At my school, an A+ is treated the same as an A-</p>
<p>well i just want to know what colleges do...</p>
<p>because in that "what colleges do not count freshman gpa", someone posted that university of micigan disregrads +s/-s...also search on here, people have said stanford also disregards it but i went to the stanford website and there was no official mention of it.</p>
<p>yeah my transcript won't show A- or B+'s, they only show the solid grade (A or B), which sucks because a few of my classes that I got B's in were B+'s and now I'll be receiving the same credit as someone else who got a B-.</p>
<p>^mines opposite, ive had like 4 A-s that should be As if it was the no +s/-s, only gotten 1 B+, so clearly it would be at a advantage to me...</p>
<p>so anyone know any colleges? i mean it probalby wont make a difference (it will be like only .07 difference), but i just want to make sure.</p>
<p>The only college i know is that MIT doesnt (i asked an admissions guy), but MIT factors in freshman grades so it actually doesnt matter</p>
<p>just worried about the people that do not factor freshman grades/count +s/-s because i did pretty bad 1st semester sophomore year (0.2 lower than any other semester)</p>
<p>Well this doesn't really answer your quesion, but I read an article by a former Oberlin ad com that electives (PE, Art - unless you've devoted a lot of time to it) are usually taken out of your GPA when they recalculate it.</p>
<p>This way of calculating gpa SCREWS me. My grading scale:
A 94-100
B+ 90-93
B 84-89
C+ 80-83
C 74-79
etc.
maybe a reason i got deferred from mich?</p>
<p>whoa, that kind of grading would definitely screw up my gpa, too. But all schools send a profile that describes the way grades are done at that particular school.</p>
<p>@ jcrew - holy crap, your school must be pretty hardcore!</p>
<p>IDK - I find it unfair that an 89 (which I had in a lot of classes) and a 79.5 would be treated the same way. On the other hand, I have a LOT of 93's (which were A-'s at my school for my freshman-sophomore years), that would now count as A's lol.</p>
<p>This is currently an issue in our county. A group is trying to get the 6 pt grading scale changed because many colleges have admitted that they do NOT recompute gpa's for admission and merit scholarships. </p>
<p>"""FAIRGRADE's extensive research shows that many out-of-state colleges and universities do not know FCPS' grading policy nuances, nor do they necessarily make adjustments to FCPS student's GPAs for admissions' decisions. """</p>
<p>fairgrade.org</p>