<p>Hi CCers, </p>
<p>My school doesn't let us see our GPA or even our term grades (painful, yes) until the end of our junior year. </p>
<p>For those of you who have 3.7-4.0 unweighted GPAs:<br>
1. Does this mean you have ALL As? Or does it just mean you have an A average? </p>
<p>For example would all As and one B in a final year grade still equal a ~3.7/3.8 or would it be much lower? </p>
<p>Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! :)</p>
<p>It depends what the grades actually are. Five 90s and an 80 don’t average out to a 3.7 (which is a 92), but five 95s and an 80 are around that.</p>
<p>Okay thank you. A 3.7 only a 92? Good to know, I thought it was much higher than that. </p>
<p>Thanks. :)</p>
<p>at most schools, you get a 4 for an A and a 3 for a B, so if you had 3 A’s and a B. you would take the average of them. That would be a 3.75. But if you want a 4.0 unweighted GPA, you can’t make a single B in high school. And at my school 93-100 is an A. 85-92 is a B. I wish a 90 was an A.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks very much Blaken91! This explains a lot. :)</p>
<p>You should be aware however, that different schools do things differently. My high school works exactly the same as Blaken’s, but how your high school calculates GPA doesn’t matter for much besides class rank (and some high schools don’t rank either).</p>
<p>From what I’ve been told colleges tend to have their own way of calculating GPA’s and for that reason you kind of don’t know how your GPA will actually look, but you can get a close estimate from your high school’s calculation of GPA. In any case it’s a pretty well excepted idea that if you get A’s all the way through you’re at a 4.0 but beyond that it varies.</p>
<p>Okay thanks moodragonx. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see how it all works out. :)</p>