<p>Just noticed there are quite a number of A minus in the transcript. The high school does assign point differently, i.e from 90-93 is A-, but it will give the same GPA point of 4 or 5(Honor and AP). But the A- does show up on the transcript. So Would the adcom recalculate the GPA based on a different GPA point for A-? How in general A-s are viewed in admission. I forgot to ask during the open house. Thanks.</p>
<p>They have tens of thousands of applicants, they aren’t going to recalculate gpa for everybody. They’ll just use the gpa your school uses. A minuses will not be the thing that keeps you out of washu.</p>
<p>RyanMK, Thanks for all the responses. There are very helpful. I deeply appreciate the information you provide. As for the grading, I was under the assumption that all college admissions have to somehow normalize the GPAs from transcripts by doing some kind of conversion, given that high schools grading systems can be so different from scale, weighting. Otherwise it is almost impossible to look at the GPA objectively especially with more and more school are moving away from ranking.<br>
I agree plus or minus on grade is relatively a minor thing in the big picture. However considering large number of applicant pool, the bound to be the cases where most of the important areas of the application are very similar if not identical. The make or break decision likely would be made based on those small and seemly inconsequential areas. </p>
<p>I am maybe a bit over concerned.</p>
<p>At an info session the guy stressed that they look at every applicant in the context of his or her specific high school background and also said that they will see how students do in the context of their peers. Basically it was implied that they look at class rank. They also stressed that they will look at whatever GPA your high school sends.</p>
<p>^ Exactly. Even if your school doesn’t give an official rank, your regional adcom will still know roughly where you fall in the pack.</p>
<p>It all comes down to how you stack up against your immediate peers. Not whether you have a 3.96 vs a 3.92.</p>
<p>Johnson181: That makes sense.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. They use GPA to say “this student excelled in challenging courses” rather than, “Oh, this student had one more A-, and a .01 lower GPA. He’s obviously worse.” You shouldn’t have anything to worry about.</p>