<p>Indiana University also gives A+ grades, but, as at some other schools mentioned, they are not worth any more than a regular A. I had no idea that weighted grades continued beyond high school.</p>
<p>I give up, Rabo. What is S/NC?</p>
<p>parabella, at college or high school?</p>
<p>curmudgeon:
college, of course, UWash.</p>
<p>parabella , I have never heard of that :eek:. That well and truly "sucks".</p>
<p>(That's why I asked. I HAD heard of it at the high school level.)</p>
<p>It sucks A LOT, i know. :-)</p>
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WHOA!!!! That is really defeating.... :(</p>
<p>I guess we will have to get used to it(sigh).</p>
<p>Sax: Satisfactory/No Credit. Brownspeak for pass/fail.</p>
<p>At My S's large state u, they grading system includes both +'s and -'s.
An A+ =4.33 points
A=4.0
A-=3.67
and so on with B's,C's and D's. A student cannot however have a gpa that exceeds 4.0. So an A+ at his school just serves to help pull up the gpa of lower grades.</p>
<p>MIT grades on a 5.0 scale. ;) I got to report to graduate schools that I obtained a 4.4 as an undergraduate, which sounds far more impressive than it actually was.</p>
<p>Graduate and professional schools will generally ask for the scale on which the applicant's GPA is based -- I had to fess up that my 4.4 was out of 5.0. In the specific case of medical school, they will re-compute the GPA entirely to a standardized scale.</p>
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<p>mollie, do you know how they do that? And is the scale with + and - or without?</p>
<p>Well, as you know the problem is that the 4.33 is based on a 4.0 scale and by the end of four years can add quite a bit of breathing room for those lousy B's. </p>
<p>It would be my hope that all medical schools re-compute GPA's to try and add a bit of additional fairness. Do you absolutely know this to be the case for all or a specific few? I know nothing about med school admissions except that GPA and MCAT's are the primary indicators of students ability.</p>
<p>Well I can proudly report that my daughter's FIRST reported grade at Barnard was an A+, giving her a 4.3 GPA until the other grades came in. I have to acknowledged that it was a 1 unit ballet technique class -- and since I've been paying dance studio fees for the kid since age 4, I guess she ought to be able to get a decent grade in dance. (Though she also confirmed my suspicion that the class was graded primarily on attendance). </p>
<p>Anyway, as her mom I basked in the glory and bragging rights of that 4.3 GPA for a week or so, well aware that the only direction to go mathematically from there was down. She's still waiting on grades to be reported for at least one of her classes, so it will be a while yet until we know the final fall GPA.</p>
<p>At Stanford A+=4.3. (Very few students get those.) But in a class with easy tests (and thus high scores for everybody) 96% may end up being A-=3.7...</p>
<p>I currently go to ASU and have received an A+ in macroeconomics and almost one in chemistry.. The thing is, though, that some professors at my college don't use a +/- grading system and some don't give out the score of A+. Unfortunately, I think medical schools redo transcripts and just count the A+ as a 4.0 as opposed to a 4.33. I'm hoping when I apply for transfer to a different school, however, that they won't go through the process of turning A+'s to A's.</p>
<p>Dartmouth does NOT give A+ grades, but they do something else neat- A professor has the option of giving a "citation" which is a narrative (a sentence or a paragraph) of something outstanding about the student's work in the course. Citations are rare and usually are only given to a student who earned an A and went above and beyond. But sometimes professors give them to other students- Maybe someone who earned a B in a science course but excelled in the lab part of the course etc. The citation is marked by an * next to the grade and the professor's comments are sent with every transcript.</p>
<p>Yes, at Rice an A+ is 4.33.</p>
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mollie, do you know how they do that? And is the scale with + and - or without?
<a href="This%20is%20based%20on%20my%20limited%20information%20regarding%20medical%20school%20applications,%20but%20--">/quote</a> as I understand it, students have to submit their transcripts in a "translated" form based on standards established by an organization called [url=<a href="http://www.aamc.org/audienceamcas.htm%5DAMCAS%5B/url">http://www.aamc.org/audienceamcas.htm]AMCAS[/url</a>]. Students submit their initial applications directly to AMCAS, which then submits them to the medical schools.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what the actual algorithm is -- the AMCAS website confuses me.</p>
<p>AMCAS is the application service for almost all the medical schools (except for Texas schools). Part of the verification process is to prevent fraud, and part to standardize the various grading systems that exist across the country (like the one in question on this thread). I don't recall how they adjust - if either to a regular A=4.0, B=3.0....etc or to a +/- system (only without the A+ bonus)</p>