<p>I was hoping someone might be able to inform me how to go about converting a percentage Undergrad score to a GPA...
For eg. I have done my BBA from Oxford Brookes University and their grading system is different i guess... Above 70% = A, 60-70% = B+, 50-60%= B, and 40-50% = C
Now how would i convert this to a GPA if my percentage is a 70%.</p>
<p>Also do graduate programs look at all semesters for a GPA or only the last year?</p>
<p>Are you sure a lower-second is a B? I would think it would be a C (and an upper-second a B). Anyway, an A is 4 points, a B is 3, C is 2, D is 1, F is 0. Add those up for your modules and divide by the number of modules. So if you took five modules your finalist year, and got 3 A's and 2 B's, then your GPA is (3x4 + 2x3) / 5 = 18/5 = 3.6. It's something like that.</p>
<p>I'm assuming you're applying to schools in the states, so you should ask whichever school you're applying to, as they may have different ways to interpret English grades.</p>
<p>And they will probably look at all of your grades from each year. I know some schools don't count the first year, but American schools might not care about that, so they may count all three--definitely not just the last one.</p>
<p>I don't think there's an easy way to convert and all of the schools I spoke with didn't want my haphazard conversion. I'm from Australia and I never converted my scores since my university didn't give an official GPA conversion. Check if yours does - and it might be worthwhile to see what conversion applies to American exchange students when they study at your university.</p>
<p>I am studying abroad in Australia (University of Melbourne) from the states and on my grade transfer sheet a 70% is a B+, so I could see it being so elsewhere as well. This is their generic guideline, and I have heard some universities in the states make their own conversion guidelines for students studying abroad. That said, what a B+ means also seems to differ. A B+ at my university in the states is a 3.5, but at others I think it might be 3.25 or something like that (at least in undergrad). I would just e-mail a graduate school or two that you are considering and ask them what they use. </p>
<p>At least in the sciences they seem to be much more interested in the major course subjects and the final two years. The first two are filled with general requirements normally, so looking at the 3rd and 4th years are more relevant. In my case, many of my required/unrelated classes are actually in the last two years, so I feel the major GPA will be more helpful. The general GPA is still important though.</p>
<p>Grades in Australia are usually marked as the real % you get in your exams/assignments. In the UK they usually scale it down, so I would say that a better way to approach this is to use 1st class, 2nd class, 3rd class honours etc.. rather than to use the % for conversion.</p>
<p>As are given out in the US about as commonly as a strong upper second class honours in the UK. So roughly 64-65% at undergraduate level would be equivalent to an A in the US.</p>
<p>My university has never given out candy... well... maybe they have.</p>
<p>While I've been lazing about in Australia it seems that people here hold a similar attitude about grades as I have seen in the states. They seem to have the class or two where they expect H1's (=A) while others they hope for an H3 (=B) or Pass (=C/B- range) and trust it will all balance out. At least the smarter ones seem to be getting a fews H1's. Admittedly, it's not England, or probably one of the best uni's (though it seems ranked well enough), I wouldn't say the US hands A's out like candy, I doubt it's much more than other places. I could very well be wrong though... who knows? Hard to really take two degrees in two places and compare.</p>
<p>It seems like it's dependent on the subject. I heard a lot about how it's pretty impossible to get >80 on an English essay, but it's commonplace to get >80 on a maths assignment. A lot of people in the sciences seem to have a better time getting a first than those doing English or History. </p>
<p>And I also disagree about universities giving out A's like candy. It's probably easier to get an A than a first, but this varies from uni to uni and subject to subject.</p>
<p>When I studied abroad (at Durham), the computer science things that I did weren't any harder than they were over here, but I only needed a 70 instead of a 90, so that proved quite easy to get.</p>
<p>It's strange to see all of you making the same obvious mistake. GPAs in the US are not equivalent from school to school, just as a first at Oxford Brookes University and a first at the University of Oxford are not equivalent. You want to know how to convert your GPA, but to what? A Harvard GPA? A community college GPA? A 4.0 from the wrong university would be insufficient for top-tier grad school admissions, but a 3.5 from one of the best universities might suffice. More importantly, why do you want to make this conversion? As drosophila says, US universities want nothing to do with homebrew GPAs. Each school will figure their own conversion based on your school's reputation and their previous experiences with your graduates.</p>
<p>Zules01 actually more people get firsts at top universities in the United Kingdom than at 'lower universities' Oxford and Cambridge give out far more than other universities. Broadly speaking degrees are much more equivalent in the Uk than it appears to be in the US. Ie a first at manchester is broadly equvalent to a first from nottingham.</p>
<p>When I sent my transcript to the universities I added in a sheet explaining what the grades meant and approximately what number of people get firsts and 2is so they could get a rough idea of my scores relatve to my peers</p>
<p>@JohnWilliams: have you ever studied in the United States? Because when I was (granted, at a high school level, but now I see my fellow classmates going to college and things haven't changed much,) that's how it worked.</p>
<p>@Snowpack: I heard that some Ivies made up for that gap by inflating their students' grades (may not be true, but it sounds possible to me.) So there.</p>
<p>zules01: Haha, yes, I am a US citizen, born and raised. I've only been in Australia for the spring quarter of my sophomore year, so that means I have completed high school and 1-2/3 years of undergrad in engineering physics while in the US. Things change from high school to college, but it doesn't have to change much depending on where you go and what you study. Sure they can toss around A's at the local U in History or Business, I doubt many people here would say that they give A's out like candy in undergraduate years for engineering or physics. If they do, then maybe I should consider going there, since I worked really hard to get the B+ I got in my Modern Physics class, whereas I got an A in statistics with ease. </p>
<p>The class matters, the teacher matters, the university matters. I can't even generalize the difficulty of my major, I don't see how you expect to generalize the entirety of US undergrad.</p>