I am an international student and this is the first time I have ever been on this site.
Everyone is posting their GPA’s…but how do you calculate them. I tried to look it up on the internet but every school seems different. Is there an official site in the U.S that could tell me.
Also, we are marked out of 100, not letter grades…is their a site you could recommend with this conversion?
Please help!
<p>It really depends. Like you said, schools calculate GPA in a number of ways. </p>
<p>The most common way to convert a percentage out of 100 into a letter grade is this scale:</p>
<p>90-100 = A
80-89 = B
70-79 = C
60-69 = D
59 or lower = F</p>
<p>I don't know if that's what you're asking for though, hope it helps</p>
<p>how can everywhere brag about their GPA on here then?</p>
<p>how does all this convert into a numerical number out of four</p>
<p>eg. 4.0= 100% only?</p>
<p>My school's policy:</p>
<p>for individual classes:
90-100 = A = 4.0
87-89.9 = B+ = 3.5
80-86.9 = B = 3.0
77-79.9 = C+ = 2.5
70-76.9= C = 2.0
65-69.9= D = 1.0
<65 = F = 0</p>
<p>when looking at final GPA:</p>
<p>3.60-4.00 = A
3.40-3.59 = B+
2.60-3.39 = B
2.40-2.59 = C+
1.60-2.39 = C
.60-1.59 = D
.00-.59 = F</p>
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<p>Note, the only way to have a final [unweighted] GPA of 4.0 is to have obtained an A in every single class taken.</p>
<p>There's also a +0.5 for AP class grades (some school's are +1.0 I think)</p>
<p>Btw, if anyone knows..
On your transcript/counselor form or whatever you fill out, is there a place that says which type of classes are weighted (for example, honors classes) and how much the weight is? My school only adds +0.5 and doesn't weight honors, so it's amazing if you have a 4.2.</p>
<p>Wow, some schools have rather lenient GPA scales.</p>
<p>Here, an A=93-100, B=92-85, etc.. A 4.0 is anything above a 96, and you subtract .125 points for each number below a 96.</p>
<p>my school is on a 4.0 scale but tons of people have more than a 4.0 because AP and Honors classes are weighted also at my school for the GPA there is no such thing as A- or B+ therefore an 89% in a single class is only a 3.0....its really hard to figure out a national standard because every high school is different...if you want one thats pretty accurate to all the ones on here just do the A=4 b=3 etc.</p>
<p>Wow, these others seem quite simple:</p>
<p>In our district (very competitive, high-scores, etc) we run on a 7-point scale, (ie, 85-92B, 93-100A, etc.). A=4.0, B=3.0, C=2.0 (I am not sure how it goes down to F, I think in smaller increments)...there are no intermediate values for +- grades.</p>
<p>Each course has 4 levels, Basic (4.0), Academic (4.0), Honors (4.5), Seminar (an Honors course on sterioids--intense, college prep...any AP courses are Seminar, worth 5.0). Needless to say this makes it impossible to calulate, but seems to offer a great way to rank students. </p>
<p>Lesson: all schools are different. Our district does provide an explanation of this with every transcript in a cover-letter of sorts, but if I were an admissions officer I would not want to read a cover letter with an explanation of all this stuff if I had a thousand apps. to read this year. </p>
<p>Regardless, our all-or-none A, B, C GPA scale bodes well for me in unweighted GPA's. Despite my one low A, a 93 in Algebra II, I still have an unweighted GPA of 4.0...this is nice for the application process, but not necessarily fair to those who have the +- scale. </p>
<p>Do any of you have this many levels (4) for every course? Are they weighted differently? Most of the time I just hear of two levels, regular and Honors.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Matt</p>
<p>at my school we have AP-5.0, Honors-5.0, College Prep (90% of the students in here)-4.0, Standard-4.0, Core-4.0...also there are some courses only offered for AP like euro history...if you were in CP you would take world history</p>
<p>Wow I want to go to where ever school ya'll go to! Here if it's below a 70 then that's considered an F.</p>
<p>Below 69= F
70-74=D
75-79=C
80-89=B
90-100=A</p>
<p>For the OP: I don't think you need to worry about how smart anyone else is. No matter the grading scheme, there are schools that grade harder and schools that grade easier. (And smart is not measured in grades anyway.)</p>
<p>When your school sends your transcripts, they will also sent a grading guide so colleges will know your system. They will also likely know the reputation of your school a bit, to know how difficult the grading is.</p>
<p>At dd's school they do not weight for Hon. or AP. But they just started to use + and -
So,
A+ is 98-100,
A is 93 - 97
A- is 90 - 92
and they are calculated accordingly.</p>
<p>For difficulty (or smartness, if you must), only 4 boys in the history of the school ever got 4.0 for all 4 years, since 1923. The most recent was a couple years ago, and he was admitted to Columbia in that dual med program iirc.</p>
<p>here it is:</p>
<p>A = 100-93
B = 92-85
C = 84-77
D = 76-70
F = -infinity - 69</p>