<p>What’s the lowest GPA you can have from a top private school (to get into UPenn) if you have excellent everything else?</p>
<p>Wrong question. I hear stuff like this all the time at college visits, and the answer's always the same. It's not as if colleges have some kind of cutoff based on GPA. It is, of course, a factor, but so are many other things. Just make sure that it isn't absurdly low - since you're going to a private school, I'm assuming that you don't fall under the "economically disadvantaged" category.</p>
<p>Is a 3.5 (unweighted) absurdly low? I had a really bad second semester last year... This year, I'm doing much better, and with what I'm getting, I'm probably going to end up applying with a 3.6. I'm currently getting like a 3.9 and I'm a Junior. I do a bunch of extra curricular activities, and I'm in some really high level classes for my age. I'm a really good standardized test taker, so I know that the discrepancy between my grades and my scores might look suspicious, but... yeah. </p>
<p>Do you think I might still have a chance at UPenn?</p>
<p>Its too hard to say at this point. Right now, just focus on working hard your junior year whether that be academically or extracurricularly, and study for the sats. Once you finish junior year, then it will be easier to evaluate ur chances.</p>
<p>I think the admissions committee reweight your GPA, b/c each school has a different grading system...</p>
<p>i have a quick question. is a 4.0 a 90 at most schools? or is a 4.0 a 95. thanks</p>
<p>At my school a 4.0 = 98-100</p>
<p>Does anyone have some sort of scale to convert grades out of 100 to grades out of 4.0? All of my HS grades are between 90-100, but I don't think that means I have a 4.0. Any insight is appreciated.</p>
<p>I think that at a school like Penn, you will always have a chance. Really.</p>
<p>That's weird though. Using that scale, a student could get all 95's or 96's and have a 4.0... But another student could get all 99's or 100's, and one 94, and then have a GPA below 4.0, yet his numerical average would be higher than that of the first student.</p>
<p>This is actually true for me -- Sophomore year, my grades were 95, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, which gave me a 97.1 average. With that 4.0 scale, it's a 4.0.
Junior year, my grades were 93, 97, 97, 97, 99, 99, 100, which gave me a 97.4 average, but a 3.97 out of 4.0...</p>
<p>Penn recalculates GPA so that a 95 means the same regradless of you school's system.</p>
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<p>Is that PrincetonReview thing accurate??
I really hope so...!!</p>
<p>what is a 94.98? a 4.0? lol</p>
<p>I think ti's safe to round that to 95 lol...</p>
<p>You would have to use the scale to convert each of your report card grades to a number out of 4.0, you can't just say that because your average is a 95, you'd have a 4.0. For example, I have a 96.5 average, so I wrote down my final grades for each HS class I've taken, converted them to a number out of 4.0, and then averaged those. It gave me 3.84 for freshman year, 4.00 for sophomore year, and 3.97 for junior year.</p>
<p>lol religion 11 brought me from a 95.2 to a 94.4..... do they calculate GPA based only on core subjects or are non-academic courses also accounted for?</p>