<p>Do colleges differentiate between an A and A-? I've always thought that an anything over 90 is an A and that is all A's during high school would be a 4.0. Specifically do Ivies recalculate GPA, such as UPenn?</p>
<p>Yes, 3.7 is A-</p>
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Yes.
In many cases the percent grade won’t actually show up on your transcript, so they just look at whatever letter grade your school says you got. Some colleges use those to recalculate GPA. Usually A = 4.0 and A minus = 3.7 or 3.67. I’ve seen several grading scales (even at the college level) where you have to have something higher than a 90, maybe a 93 or a 94, to get an A. Other colleges just sort of eyeball your transcript to see what kind of grades you got, without actually recalculating anything. But they won’t take your school’s GPA at face value. </p>
<p>Well then I’m pretty lucky. I asked my guidance counselor this today and he says he gets this question a lot. Our school only puts the letter grade on our transcripts: no percentages or A+ or A-. He said that getting all 90s is essentially the same thing as all 99s.</p>
<p>Hmm. At my school, even if you get an 89.5, it still rounds up to an A on the report card; not even an A-. It should really be standardized, in my opinion, but that’s too much to ask for.</p>
<p>It wouldn’t be fair even if it were standardized, because not all high schools are equally difficult. </p>