My school goes by a numeric scale. I have a 92 unweighted average and a 97.3 weighted average. Is this competitive for top schools and how does my average translate onto a 4.0 scale?
If you’re asking for applications, you report the GPA as listed on your transcript, using the scale your school uses. So at the moment, you have a 92 on a 100 point scale.
On the rare occasions that a college asks you to recalculate, they will tell you how.
If you want to recalculate your GPA on a 4.0 scale just for giggles, here is one:
https://pages.collegeboard.org/how-to-convert-gpa-4.0-scale
Without looking at the greater context, we can’t answer. If your HS is a top HS like Stuyvesant, Exeter, Andover, and that GPA is in the top 10%, then possibly. If it’s a run-of-the-mill HS, it might be low.
For your target colleges, google their Common Data Set and look at section C11 to see how your GPA compares to admitted students. Good luck.
A 92 at my kids high school is a B+ and at other schools it is an A-. Your college(s) will use one or the other I assume.
@skieurope I have looked at colleges that I would like to go to and their GPA is formatted on a 4.0 scale, so I am not sure how they look at my grade when it is not on the same scale.
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I provided a GPA converter to assist you. Simply saying your average is a 92 won’t accurately convert to a 4.0; you need to do the calculations class by class. Roughly, however, it would be around a 3.7.
Since it is on the highest on that 3.7 conversion, would it not be like a 3.9? Because if not would someone get a 3.9?
I don’t really understand the question above, but a 92 would not be a 3.9. Your weighted average might be around a 3.9, but colleges are generally not interested in your weighted GPA, since every HS weights differently. Weighting is more an internal high school tool for ranking purposes. If a college opts to recalculate weighted GPA’s, it will do so according to it’s own parameters.
At our school if you got a 90.0 to 94.0 in all classes with an average of 92 you would have an unweighted 4.0.
@VickiSoCal Is this a High School or is this how your college does things?
If you are just wondering for comparison purposes, use the link suggested above.
If you are wondering how colleges handle it…don’t worry, they will.
My daughter moved schools after her sophomore year. The first school was the US News #1 STEM public magnet school with a 0-100 grading system. We moved internationally for work, so the second was a German International School with an IB program that has a 0-7 grading system. We never knew what her 4.0 scale GPA was. Colleges admitted her anyway and gave her merit scholarships. The only glitch we had was our State Public U that had an automated system for scholarships based on self-reported data. An email to admissions cleared that up and she was also awarded merit.
My point is, don’t worry about it, the colleges figure it out.
@skieurope Not the OP, but I also have a question about that converter. Do you convert each class to a 4.0 scale and then average them all together, or if you know your total GPA on a 100 point scale, do you just convert that directly? For example, in this example, OP has a 92 average. Is that automatically a 3.7? Because if you convert each class separately, it could come out much differently.
i was looking for the same answer, we have a 100 point scale as well, and all college website use 4.0 scale so not sure how I compare to other applicants…
I found it easier to input grades into raise.me
It gave the converted to 4.0 scale GPA that I was curious about, and I could also see some merit possibilities.
That said, as others have mentioned, whether it’s high enough for some colleges that want high stats is hard to say. Some might view it in context of your particular school/course rigor and think it’s high if the majority of students in your class are lower. Or they might view it as low of many have a higher GPA.
Do you have access to Naviance? They might give you a better idea.
Oh, another question is have you looked on the websites for instate public colleges for where you live? I’ve noticed that since my state public high schools primarily grade on a 100% scale, most instate publics show that type of data for accepted freshmen on their websites. You may get an idea of whether your 92 is high or low from that.
@gallentjill pretty sure you convert each class separately
You have to input each course separately.
As an example. Suppose there are 2 students, and each took 6 classes. Student 1 has 3 100’s, 2 96’s and a 60. Student 2 has 6 92’s. Each therefore has a 92 average. But on a 4.0 scale, the first student has a 3.33 GPA and the second has a 3.70 GPA, using the calculator I provided.
But again, how colleges recalculate GPA or if colleges recalculate GPA is up to the individual college. It is what it is.