<p>Does Cornell recalculate the GPA or do they just say your UW GPA is whatever the school reports.</p>
<p>-nudges- Anyone have an answer?</p>
<p>Recalculates with no A+ or weighting on a 4.0 scale to my knowledge. Either way, it gets recalculated, so you're on an even playing field regardless of how they do it. You get credit for your difficult courseload seperately. Counting weighting would be like double counting a hard courseload. So yeah, even playing field, and you're not getting cheated by students who took easy classes to get a 4.0.</p>
<p>Just wondering... a friend of mine told me that APs are rated on an equal level as IB HLs. If that's true, it sucks. I've seen AP papers and they way easier than IBs. Besides, they're all MCQs! Apparently, the UK considers APs equal to or less than the AS level, which is less than IB SLs.
Any comments?</p>
<p>In terms of what cornell looks at, even if IB is haarder than AP, it's still a student taking advantage of the hardest course offered in that field. That's what cornell wants to see. That's why they like students with no APs at their HS to take community college courses. In terms of GPA in cornell's eyes, your AP, IB, Honors, Regular, and Remedial courses all get the same weight.</p>
<p>how bout accounting for differences between systems.. like i heard A's are 90% in some states, whereas at my school its 94%</p>
<p>Also I have dual enrollment with a university, but my school only counts those classes as either 3 units or 4 units, while regular easy classes no matter what it is at the high school counts as 5. So all the good grades I get at the university dont count for much at my school I heard some colleges, like the UC's will even count a semester class twice as if it was year long since one semester of College Calc is equalivalent to a year of AP Calc. Does anyone have any idea of what cornell might do with college classes?</p>
<p>I have a college Class, but it is not counted in my GPA. I think that you should send a copy of a transcript from that school with your mid-year report, so that Cornell can compare your grade to your HS grades. I still think that it shows how you take advantage of opportunities, even if a grade report isn't sent from that particular school.</p>
<p>so every grade of a 93 or above is counted as an A, which is a 4.0?</p>
<p>Yes ckmets, supposedly, but none of this really matters or changes anything. If you "benefit" from their system, so does everyone else.</p>
<p>I understand that </p>
<p>I really dont get the 4.0 system. 100 is much better than a 93, why are they worth the same in the 4.0 system?</p>
<p>93 and 100 are not the same in the 4 point system. A 3.72 is like a 93...it is a precentage, like 93 is 93%. 3.72 is 93% of 4.0. It's on a scale like that.</p>
<p>i'm not sure how that works... an a i.e a 93-100 is a 4.0, it works by ranges</p>
<p>it's more general than that emilyanne28, but what we can see is that there's not THAT much difference between a .3 difference in GPA ona 4.0 scale. If an 83-86 is a B, or a range of 0.3 on a 4.0 scale, having a 3.4 when others have a 3.6 shouldn't be THAT big of a deal.</p>
<p>transfer your number grade into a letter grade on a 10 point scale (80-82 B-, 83-86, 87-89 B+) to a decimal grade on a 4.0 scale (3.0=B, +/- = +/-0.3).</p>
<p>At my high school in Canada</p>
<p>86-100 is an A.</p>
<p>So, if I have an 88 in say.. tenth grade english, I wonder how it will get calculated.</p>
<p>I take a class that is graded on a four point scale. It does deal with perentages, but generally the break down is as follows...</p>
<p>4.0-3.667 A</p>
<p>3.667-3.333 A-</p>
<p>3.333-3.0 B+</p>
<p>3.0-2.667 B</p>
<p>2.667-2.333 B-</p>
<p>2.333-2.0 C+</p>
<p>2.0-1.667 C etc.</p>
<p>So, a .4 difference is huge. It is like the difference from a C+ to a B.</p>
<p>for us each class gives us a percentage.. if our percentage is 94-100.. it converts to A (4.0).. if it is 90-93 it converts to B+(3.5) and so forth.</p>
<p>Damn those 92s that I have gotten.</p>
<p>nowhere was i talking about a .4 difference. i was saying .2 or .3</p>
<p>but yes you are correct to a certain extent. I was actually kind of trying to say something kind of different from what i said AND the topic of the thread haha. basically i was trying to say that it's interesting that with all the conversion that the difference between a C+ and a B as you put it, is suprisingly small. not that I said that at all in my previous post haha.</p>
<p>At my school it is just works like..</p>
<p>A -> 4.0
B -> 3.0
....</p>
<p>So while my unweighted GPA is like a 3.79, all my As are probably like 92s. If I get away with that, then I am really lucky.</p>