<p>I have a 90% unweighted average, a 93% weighted and a 4.0 weighted GPA (out of 4.0). My school states that a 92 is a 4.0, but I cannot imagine colleges look at that 4.0 and think that it is the same as a 4.0 on a 100 point numerical scale. My school seems like a joke in that respect. Will colleges really think I am the same quality as a 4.0 applicant in a different school? The whole system seems really sketchy and my school does not rank. I feel like a 90% is really a 3.5 or so is all I am saying :</p>
<p>This is an unusual one…hmmmm. Each college will use their own method of calculating your GPA, so to some extent I would think that your GPA is less meaningful then the actual letter grades you have earned. Does your school use Naviance? You may want to just go through the scattergrams and see where else others from your school have been accepted & their GPA. That’s going to be a better indication of how colleges will view your transcript. It does make it tricky to determine where you fall within targets, and reaches though. That’s tricky, so I can only suggest you talk to your counselor for more feedback on your college list.</p>
<p>I’m confused. A 4.0 means an A, correct? So if a 92 is an A, what’s so unusual? Colleges see the letter grade, not the percent. I thought GPA was based on letter grades.</p>
<p>a 93% = to a 4.0 is usual? that’s new to me.</p>
<p>Rank is what matters. Whether or not your school officially ranks,they give enough grade distribution data to colleges to know where you rank.</p>
<p>Don’t schools use something like this…</p>
<p>A+ (97-100) = 4.0
A (93-96) = 4.0
A- (90-92) = 3.7</p>
<p>B+ (87-89) = 3.3
B (83-86) = 3.0
B- (80-82) = 2.7</p>
<p>C+ (77-79) = 2.3
C (73-76) = 2.0
C- (70-72) = 1.7</p>
<p>D+ (67-69) = 1.3
D (65-66) = 1.0
E/F (below 65) = 0.0</p>
<p>My daughter’s school gave an A for anything 90+.
There are lots of ways to get a 93 average, but if you got it by getting something between 90 and 95 in every one of your classes, in my daughter’s school, those would all be A’s and you’d have a 4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>(More commonly, though, a 93 comes about through earning some grades in the B-range and some grades in the A-range, which wouldn’t work out to a 4.0)</p>
<p>I believe I am just outside the top 10% of my class. Should I avoid putting that down since my school does not rank? If you ask I think they do tell you though. It seems a little hazy to not rank and then expect the college to guess the GPA scale. As I said, I have a 4.0 but I’m not in the top 10%.</p>
<p>A weighted 4.0 GPA is not an UW 4.0. Colleges will look at your UW GPA (or grades if your school does not supply an UW number) and the difficulty of schedule.</p>
<p>yeah yeah but my school doesnt state my unweighted gpa they just give the numerical grade</p>
<p>my schedule is as hard as it can be minus ap calculus which i know is bad but oh well they wouldnt let me take it since i wasnt in honors pre calc</p>
<p>I asked my GC and he told me I was in the top 20%, but my school is private and I would not call it easy to get an A average. I got a 2120 on my SAT but I worked really hard Junior year just to get a 93 unweighted. This may be the reason that we do not rank, but I know that at other local privates, namely Gilman, they send several students to Ivies and other top tier universities each year, while our school does not send anyone. (Kid with 2270 4.0, hardest schedule possible, Varsity athlete got waitlisted from Princeton). He was the only applicant who got into top schools like NW, UVA, Vandy as well. Does this mean I am disillusioned and my school is not very competitive, or that we just don’t have good luck with top schools? We are absolutely not a feeder like Gilman is…</p>