<p>In my school, any score between 94-100 is an A, 84-93 is a B, and so on.
Will boarding schools use my school's grading scale, or just count any score between 90-100 as an A (and so on)? The report cards that my school give out only show a numerical score, and not letter grades.</p>
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<p>I think they will use your school’s grading scale. Don’t they ask for an explanation about the grading system of the applicant’s current school? My report cards also show numerical averages, with 90 as the cut off for honors.</p>
<p>The school my son went to sent sent grade distributions for all their courses. This showed how he did on a relative basis – relative to how other students did. I think this is typical, but I don’t know. I think they ask for an explanation of grades as well because different schools use different scales.</p>
<p>Usually schools send how they assign grades, but I would ask and make sure your school does.<br>
Our school this year changed the way they assign effort/merit scores from 1-4 to a 1-5 making a 1 almost impossible to achieve. So, they are having to send the change along with transcripts so that kids who always got 1’s and 2’s and now are getting 2’s and 3’s and maybe A 1, still look the same.</p>
<p>Here, anything above including and above a 93 is considered an A. 90-93 is an A minus.</p>
<p>They’ll judge your record by your previous schools’ system, I believe. If that’s what goes on your transcript, they’ll look at an A- and think “A-”, not “A” if that’s how they would judge it, I believe.</p>
<p>Don’t take this verbatim, though.</p>
<p>they will just look and see if you have mostly 90’s or really high 80’s and that will be enough for them, probably.</p>