<p>how does u mich recalculate ur hs gpa?</p>
<p>They drop your freshman year and calculate solely on the basis of your sophomore and junior years. All grades are unweighted, pluses and minuses are dropped as well.</p>
<p>They only take academic courses as well.</p>
<p>From UoM's website:
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The Office of Undergraduate Admissions for U-M recalculates the grade point averages (GPA) for all applicants. Grades are determined using an unweighted 4.0 scale: A (including plus or minus ) = 4.0, B (including plus or minus) = 3.0, C (including plus or minus) = 2.0, D (including plus or minus) = 1.0, and E or F = 0.0. </p>
<p>Freshmen: No extra (GPA) weight is given to Honors, Accelerated, or Advanced Placement courses; however, the difficulty of a student's curriculum is taken into consideration within the admission's process. Additionally, only academic courses from 10th and 11th grade (Foreign Language, Social Studies, Science, Mathematics, and English) are used to calculate the GPA.</p>
<p>Transfers: The Office of Undergraduate Admissions recalculates the grade point average (GPA) for transfer students based upon the same 4.0 scale (see above). The GPA is calculated using all academic courses; however, students will not receive credit for courses in which they earn less than a "C."
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<p>the only thing I never get is how do they account for different grade scales across the US. Some has 90-100=A; 80-89 B, other schools have 94-100=A; 83-93= B, or 94-100=A; 90-93= B+.</p>
<p>They only look at the numerical grade. So, if you got a 90, then you would be given a 4, no matter what your school's grading system was.</p>
<p>Hmm, ok. It hinted at this on its admissions website for the counselors
<a href="http://www.admissions.umich.edu/counselors/profile.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.umich.edu/counselors/profile.html</a>. </p>
<p>"List an interpretation of your grading scale, (i.e., A = 90 - 100, B = 80 - 89, etc.)"</p>
<p>I think this is a key component they should have elaborated. So I guess that's good news for me. My C+ (80-83) would be counted as a 3.0, I suppose? LOL! Personally, I think GPA is a pretty unreliable admissions factor. There's no need to mention that some hs got grade inflation while others don't. But just in my school, the very same course taught by different teachers got different grading standards. One teacher may give half of the class As (letting them retake quizzes), while another may only give a few As. And those kids who get the harder teacher gets made fun of by their counterparts in the easier teacher's class. lol!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, so I heard that U-M is one of those colleges without grade inflation? What other schools is like this? UChicago?</p>