<p>My school does GPA on a 4 point scale (A-/A/A+=4, B-/B/B+=3, etc.) However, I know that some schools do it with +/- factored in (4, 3.666, 3.333, etc.) I have a relatively high GPA, but I also have some A-.
Which scale do colleges use? Will they just accept my district unweighted (using the first scale)? Or does each college do it differently?</p>
<p>Colleges look at your grade objectively. They don’t account for how your school weighs things. An A- is worse than an A even though it is a 4.0 at your school, because that is the grade that appears on your transcript (unless it converts to a 4.0 automatically or something). They will look at your rank–how you compare to other students in your grade for your school.</p>
<p>Crazybandit: My school doesn’t rank. Will this change anything?</p>
<p>It is not bad or good to have class rank in admissions.</p>
<p>Usually they get rid of it at competitive schools so as to not hurt the students.</p>
<p>My high school used the same system your school does to determine GPA. </p>
<p>Don’t worry about it. One third of my letter grades for all four years were probably A-'s. Colleges didn’t really seem to mind.</p>
<p>@porkperson yeah our teachers said something about not wanting to foster open competition between students</p>
<p>@Gryffon OK thanks. I noticed you are at Yale. Did they say anything about how they calculated high school GPA?</p>
<p>Wow, I was going to post the exact same question.</p>
<p>Anyway, I did some research and found that all UC’s such as Berkeley (one of my dream schools) and so on do not factor in A- or A+, they’re all the same there. I also found that Stanford (another of my dream schools) does… darn.
But I couldn’t figure out about any other schools.</p>
<p>So say you have a couple of A minuses every semester, is that going to completely screw you over as much as having one B every year in the Stanford system?</p>
<p>well if stanford doesnt count +/-, then an A- will still be a 4. A B will still be a 3.</p>
<p>EDIT: Sorry, misread your post. Just ignore that</p>
<p>What if I transferred from a school that does 4.0 3.67 3.33 to a school that doesn’t? would the college recalculate my gpa?</p>