I have read on several sites that each college has a diferent way they calculate a student’s GPA. My daughter just graduated and we picked up a copy of her transcript out of curiosity. Her school’s grading system was as follows: 94-100=A, 88-93=B, 80-87=C. Is that standard now? It shows her overall high school average to be 93.85% and a GPA of 3.61. All the sites I have looked at, including the College Board, differ from this.
It would be so nice if there was one uniform system for high school GPA’s. The way it’s all over the map right now is confusing. No, your daughter’s school isn’t standard, but then again, I haven’t seen a “standard” yet. I have no idea how colleges manage to figure out how to calculate HS GPA’s. My sons’ school uses a 4 point scale, I know that 93-100 equals an A at this particular school. Not sure about B and C etc. My youngest son has a 3.9 GPA right now. He’s had all A’s for years, but had a B in Algebra I in middle school, it brings down his GPA.
That scale seems pretty tough. Our school uses A- for 90-93. I think it’s odd there is no A+ in our system but there is a C+ and B+.
What’s going matter is what your GC will check off on her recommendation letter. The GC will indicate if your kid is top 1%, 5%, 10%…She could have 95, but if she is top 25% of her class then the chance of her getting into top tier schools would be very low. On the other hand if the GC should check off top 10% with 93.85% then she could still be competitive for top tier schools.
It is a tough one. She was a solid straight “A” student until her Junior year…she was upset because she made an 85.5 in trig, which I thought that was pretty good (especially considering I never even made it as far as trig!) and an 87.5 in chemistry (which I also, thankfully, never had to take), but now I see that those were considered a “C”!
I would also look into the school’s profile report to see how to report their grading system.
We always joke that there was something in the water the year my youngest was born, there are some incredibly high performing students in his class. So, he’ll be lucky if he makes it into the top 10%, even with a 3.9 GPA and a 34 on the ACT.
That is one of the standard grading scales I’ve seen. Our D’s HS used it.
I checked, this is what ours looks like: 93-100 A | 85-92 B | 75-84 C | 70-74 D | 69 and below F , not a whole lot different, but I wonder why we can’t just use a universal system ?
I thought ours was the norm - guess you learn something new each day:
90-100 A | 80-89 B | 70-79 C | 60-69 D | 60 and below F
@undeuxtroiscat - yours is the one we all grew up on- schools began creating tighter grading scales a few years ago. Of course, grade inflation is more common now as well. I have been teaching 20 years- and if I go back a decade or two and look at grades (I have kept a copy of every grade book - photocopies of the actual “books” of years ago- and printouts from the last 10) roughly the same % get As, Bs etc.
Oh, interesting! I never knew anything different than 90s=As, 80s=Bs, and so on, but I see with GPA scales why ‘tightening up’ would occur. Although, I am glad my school didn’t 
ETA - unfortunately, I’m going to a college with very little grade inflation and known for being one of the harshest grades. 
I don’t even know what our school considered an A anymore, since they only reported the number grades anyway.
Your daughter just graduated from High School? Did she get accepted to a college she likes? If so, don’t fret about her HS GPA…or how it is calculated.
What bothers me here is that you only saw your daughter’s transcript after she graduated.
It’s a good idea for both the student and the parent to look at the transcript several times during high school and especially before transcripts are sent to colleges. Transcripts sometimes have mistakes in them, and those mistakes can be corrected. Also, transcripts sometimes include information that you don’t want to submit to colleges (for example, SAT scores, which you might not want colleges to see if your student did much better on the ACT). You may be able to get that information removed.
What bothers me is that the OP is asking this question after his daughter graduated. Why?
Our school district still uses the 90= As, 80s = Bs, etc.