<p>northeastmom: numerical grades are put on the transcripts as well. Sorry if that wasn't clear.</p>
<p>Oh, I see.</p>
<p>lelalellen, I sent a pm to you.</p>
<p>At huge state school in my town, with 25,000 applicants, GPAs are recalculated. I believe they are considering discontinuing this practice however -- mostly because it's not clear that it yields any better information.</p>
<p>On my son's transcript, it tells: the Grade (numerical), the Mark (letter) the Grade Points and the Credits... </p>
<p>Sample:
Biology Honors - Grade: 90; Mark: B+; Grade Points: 4.55; Credits: 7.00</p>
<p>Plus, they send the school's profile with all the necessary info to decipher the above... the weighting explaination and all.</p>
<p>I'm glad for the schools that do send all the info. Our's sends nothing.</p>
<p>The transcript shows numerical grade and a weighted GPA. That's it. My D is probably the only unaffected kid as she has all A's above 94 and is ranked #1. (All A's should be a 4.0uw anywhere, one would think, BUT IT'S NOT.) Everybody else who has even one B gets dinged. My daughter's best friend is an excellent softball player but she is also a very good, upward trending student. I recalculated her GPA for her at her parent's urging.</p>
<p>The school says her weighted GPA is 3.35. I recalculated using the handbook numerical/letter grade scale of 90-100 and came to an unweighted GPA of 3.60. That 3.6 gets her $ at a school that may want to give her a half ride for softball but the parents would have never pursued that opportunity had I not explained it to them. They have explained it to the college in question and it looks like she will get the money if she goes there.</p>
<p>You have to do this for the student. In my opinion this can be a parent's job.</p>
<p>curmudgeon, that's awful! I'm glad your D's friend's situation was resolved, but it sounds as if she's not the only one in that predicament.</p>
<p>My school sends 7 straight pages of course offerings, required courses, grade distribution, average IB exam scores as compared to US and world averages, mid 50% SAT/SATII range (taking care to mentioned that "Many students at [my school] speak a language other than English at home"), National Merit stats, list of student organizations/clubs, university destinations 2001-2005, etc, etc ... That's probably overkill, but considering our nonstandard curriculum I'm relieved that they've made an effort to make things as clear as possible.</p>