<p>I've been following these forums for quite a while now, and it seemed like every student, wheter they got accpeted or not, had averages over 90%. That really scared me because I get about 85% in Canada. But now I saw several forums discussing the different educations kids seem to get in the states from he canadian point of view. Is it really easier? How different? Because I go to a top private catholic school and my class average is about 74% and it is considered very good. Someone getting over 83-84% is considered for honors.</p>
<p>Yeah it's much harder to get a 90% average in Canada. When I go up there for school breaks to see my dad and I talk to people from there around my age and they seem more advanced than the kids down here.</p>
<p>If you apply to boarding school in the US, your class ranking and the difficulty of the courses you take will be more important than your grade point average.</p>
<p>im from asia and my average is 77? I still got into andover and choate and hotchkiss though. but anything above 75% in my school is considered an A, so just explain to them your situation</p>
<p>Well meleny, my school was already aware of the situation cuz i got accepted. Your school must be ridiculously hard if you got into those schools with an average of 77.</p>
<p>Prepstudent, where are you going next year?</p>
<p>And yes, there was a board here about how Canadian GPAs differ from American. Jonathan is half-Canadian, I believe?</p>
<p>I was born in Canada so I have duel citizenship, but I don't think I really consider myself half Canadian because my dad's parents were both from Greece and my dad was born in Canada so I don't really know what that makes me.</p>
<p>But by citizenship, I'm both Canadian and American.</p>
<p>schools in canada usually will have anything over 80 as an honor roll</p>
<p>That is true. Anything over 80 in a course is considered Honor Roll. But there's no Honors courses or stuff like that if you get 80+. There's not much to get from it but a pat on the back.</p>