<p>After reading some of the messages regarding HS grading scales and the tendency of colleges to recalcuate GPA, I have a small concern.</p>
<p>My school uses a scae of 90-100 A, 89-80 B, 79-75 C, 74-70 D, and below 70 F. However, I know at many schools the A cut-off has been changed to 92 or 93. If colleges are recalcuating GPA, would they calcuate a 92 (an A on the student's HS scale) down to a B?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>they do this differently at each school... and colleges know that, for instance, some kid at youre school with all 90's could say they have a 4.0 gpa, where as in another school that becomes a 3.6... colleges will figure it out</p>
<p>The real answer is that none of us knows. </p>
<p>Since the high schools that use A,B,C etc actually use a 4.0 numerical scale, I would guess that no college translates the 100 point scale into a letter grade first , and then back into a 4.0 numerical scale. A 90 will simply become a 3.6, I would surmise.</p>
<p>dadx, I do know how at least a couple of schools do it. D's high school is numerical. Everything is a number. Same 90-100=A scale. The question occurred to me a couple of years ago, so I asked the local research university. They said they consider an A whatever the high school considered an A. So at D's school 93 is an A (as is a 90 or a 99), A is 4.0. Straight A's is a 4.0. 3 A's and a B is a 3.75.</p>
<p>This is the only thing that makes any sense, to me, as the school scale is supposed to provide the markers for excellent, good, acceptable, unacceptable, and failing for the teacher and the student. The teacher felt the student's performance was an A, she or he gave the student an A, why would a college change that determination without any facts to the contrary? At the low end, would a college consider a 64 an F ,if the high school considered it a passing grade? That would be pandemonium.</p>
<p>The colleges I have spoken to, do not use the + or - in re-tabulating GPA. Now, I am positive that not all schools do it this way as some schools, like UVA and WM list average GPA as 4.0 or over and I know the UC's have some voodoo going on,too. But this is what I keep hearing.</p>
<p>the same thing occurs at the graduate school level when you apply to medical, law and graduate schools. You could get a '89'(B+) in every course at Davidson(and many other colleges) and end up with a GPA of 3.3(B+) and the kid at the local university could get a '90' in every course and have a 4.0. The Davidson kid with a straight 90(A-) in every course would have a GPA of 3.7-but the medical and law schools know that and take the rigor and selectivity of the undergraduate college into consideration. College adcoms do the same thing at the high school level.</p>
<p>Hubbellgardner, do you have any links that support that? Others on these boards seem to say that students from schools with grade inflation are in a better position vis a vis law and med school. Many of these inflated schools are not the local state u., but some of our most prestigious universities.</p>
<p>I just wanted to clear up what I thouht might be a misconception in the orginal post: when I say 92, I mean a 92 as a grade for an individual CLASS, not as an average. My school uses the point GPA system, which is included on the transcript as well.</p>
<p>Anyone?...</p>