<p>What is a typical GPA for Ivies... OTHER than 4.0?</p>
<p>I mean... the cutoff...</p>
<p>There is no cutoff per se, but I would advise a kid at a standard issue high school to have around a 3.7+ Unweighted. However, I’m not so certain about Canadian high schools.</p>
<p>Top 10 percent of your class is usually, NOT ALWAYS, the benchmark.</p>
<p>umm… I have a GPA of 3.5 IF A: 94-100, etc
and 3.9 IF A: 90-100, B: 80-99, etc</p>
<p>Is it good enough for Ivies (for Brown, UPenn, Dartmouth)?</p>
<p>An “A” is usually from 90-100 in America. A 3.9 is obviously good enough for ivies, a 3.5 is on the fence.</p>
<p>really?
is there a specific format the colleges use?</p>
<p>i have a 3.72 weighted
ivy?</p>
<p>unholy_ender, which “format” does your school use?
90-100: A?</p>
<p>94 -100 is A 93-90 A-</p>
<p>There’s no cutoff, and it totally depends on your school. For big, less difficult schools, you’ll want to be one of the top five or ten kids (not percent), and those schools are usually more inflated with grades. Then, you’ll need a 3.9-4.0 ish. For more rigorous high schools, you’ll be compared within the context of your school. Probably 3.6 ish for the most rigorous hs.</p>
<p>It’s more about rank. They want to evaluate you in comparison to others, in progressively greater circles. So, schools, state, and on some national level.</p>
<p>does it say on your transcript that they do grading like that?</p>
<p>is there anyway for the colleges to know that on a normal system it’d be a 3.9?</p>
<p>are you counting A-'s in this system where you calculated a 3.9? generally an A- is an 89.5 or so to a 92.5 or so, or a 90-93.. that would be a 3.6 and 94+ would be a 4.0.</p>
<p>does your transcript give actual percentages so the colleges can figure it out themselves?</p>
<p>does your school do class rank?</p>
<p>all these things should be taken into consideration..</p>
<p>3.9 is really a good GPA for ivies…</p>
<p>i’d say it really depended on the school you went to and the difficulty of your courseload.</p>
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<p>What is your unweighted GPA? This is what they are going to look at because there is already an assumption that you are taking the most rigerous courses that your school offers.</p>
<p>The thing is I go to a Canadian school and we DON’T rank…
Also, we do percentages, not GPAs… SO I just calculated my own GPA based on 90-100: A, etc. system…</p>
<p>Is it bad that our school doesn’t rank? :/</p>
<p>kbs200491! I go to a Canadian school too.. we also do averages, and we don’t rank either. I guess it’s good that they dont rank if you aren’t at the top.</p>
<p>Canadian here, too. I’m pretty sure admission officers are familiar with the notion that Canada has a different grading scale than the US.</p>
<p>Wow, I don’t think that question is easily answered.</p>
<p>I think more in terms of class rank. Does your school not send a fact sheet to the college explaining the approximate distribution of scores in your school? e.g. 94+ = 1%, 90-94% = 4%, etc.?</p>
<p>At a rigorous private high school, top 10% -15% of class is probably acceptable to an Ivy on the gpa side.</p>
<p>At an underperforming public school where only one third of the students go on to four year college, I would think top 1% or top 0.5% would be the level below which something extraordinary would need to be demonstrated.</p>
<p>Part of the issue is innate capability, and part is the risk that a student poorly prepared by his/her high school will arrive and not have enough time to come up to speed before failing out.</p>
<p>lol if you aim to get into Ivy, just take over the valedictorian and you will be called :)</p>