<p>I am an old school parent who came from a 7 pt system (A was 93-100; B was 86-92).</p>
<p>I get that 4.0 is all A, but is that =95%?</p>
<p>How does Honors & AP normally come into weighting?</p>
<p>Is 5.0 the new highest on HS scale?</p>
<p>What would an Honors course letter grade B (85%) equate to?</p>
<p>I'm trying to determin if a B in Honors is just as good as an A in regular.</p>
<p>Notnim, every school district seems to have a different policy. Many, including ours, weight honors more heavily, so B in honors gets the same points as A in regular. Our district uses a 6 point scale. But and A in honors or AP earns 7 points. So a kid who has all A’s in half honors and half regular would have a 6.5. But then many colleges and scholarship apps are asking for you to calculate the non-weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale, meaning that an A gets the same weight regardless of whether it is an honors class. In my example, that student would have a 4.0.</p>
<p>Recently I saw an application that asked for the GPA to be converted to a 70-100 scale. What? I called to ask how to convert it, and was told that every school converts it differently but to be considered for the award a student has to have a 100 GPA. The organization would not offer help and said it is up to the school. They thought a 4.0 would be a 100, but what if the school just averages the grades in each class? Nobody has all 100% in every class throughout high school!</p>
<p>Any ideas how to convert to a 70-100 scale?</p>
<p>It depends on the school. My school weights honors, some dual enrollments, and AP as +1.0. Therefore, an A (a 4.0) in an honors class is eqaul to a 5.0. </p>
<p>At my school a B would be a 3.0, so in an honors class it would be a 4.0, which is equivalent to an A.</p>
<p>It depends on the school, though. Not all school are as generous to give +1.0. Some are more generous. I know people who got +2.0 for APs.</p>
<p>So I’m confussed for a reason – There is no standard :)</p>
<p>From what I’ve heard at info sessions, many well-regarded colleges would likely consider a B in AP to be equal to an A, but Honors is usually not thought of as difficult enough for a B to be equivalent to an A. At the top top colleges though, they’ll say they want to see all of the most challenging courses and A’s in all of them.</p>
<p>Typically, A = 4.0 = 100-90%, B = 2.0 = 89=80%, C = 2.0 = 79-70%, D = 1.0 = 69-60%, F = 0.0 =59-0% for regular courses. Typically, for advanced classes, A = 5.0, and so on with each being 1.2 lower for the GPA and with the same percentages as the regular grades. I’m not entirely familiar with this weighting because my school doesn’t use it, so each school may choose to weight Honors & AP out of 5.0, or perhaps just AP, or AP and dual enrollment, so on and so on. The percentages can differ as well. Some schools may have it weighted entirely differently where A is 100-94% or something like that. Some teachers at a school may choose a different grading scale for their courses. Also, some schools may use pluses and minuses, where an A- might be, perhaps a 3.7 rather than a 4.0.</p>