<p>The 4.0 scale and the 100 scale are very different and although there are various scales and equations to determine what a 95 GPA is on a 4.0 scale, its very different and less specific.</p>
<p>So what would you say is a good range for average accepted GPA out of 100 at Tufts?</p>
<p>On a seven point scale (A range is a 93-100) I would say the range is a 94/95 to 100. But that’s just a guesstimate…</p>
<p>An A in our school was 90-100. Son had 93 unweighted, 97 weighted. He was also top 6% of his class with those grades which probably mattered as much. I worried about it a lot though because his orchestra courses were part of that GPA (2 every semester of high school - they brought it up a lot!) Any way I assumed his GPA was probably average if calculated the way his school did, but below average if you only counted academic courses.</p>
<p>Here are a couple of interesting threads that touch on the OP’s question.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/607941-weighed-gpa.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/607941-weighed-gpa.html</a>
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/864050-gpa-admissions.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/tufts-university/864050-gpa-admissions.html</a></p>
<p>Does your school use Naviance? Or keep admissions scattergrams in the guidance office? Because a “good” GPA is so dependent on the high school you attend, looking at the past history of other students from your school will be a much better indicator than asking the folks here.</p>
<p>In was told that because there have been an unusually high number of applications to tufts this year that I might not be able to schedule an alumni interview. Is the true about the large number of applications</p>
<p>^I’m sure it is, it’s like that everywhere.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info and thanks for the threads dan! My school does use naviance but so few people have applied I’m not exactly sure what to gather from it.</p>
<p>Susan1993-
Yes, it’s true. Tons of applications and the alumni interviewers are swamped beyond capacity.</p>
<p>Does anyone know about how many applications they received for this year? Just curious</p>
<p>@JustPhys - The best purpose for those scattergrams is to take one look, one brief look, to see if you are in the ballpark. Have students with your academic numbers (or close to your numbers been accepted in the past? Hopefully, there are enough data points for that; if not, try substituting a University with a very similar profile of admitted students that has received more applications from your school: Chicago/Cornell/Northwestern/Hopkins/Others. That’s far from perfect - and every school looks for slightly different qualitative traits - but it will help you get an approximate sense of odds for yourself.</p>
<p>What you definitely shouldn’t do is spend more than 30 seconds looking at those scattergrams. All you can do with them is to acquire a broad look to answer the question, “Is this a target? Is this a reach? Is this a safety?” Try to do more than that and you’ll drive yourself crazy.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, basically what I do. I looked at some similar schools, but so few people applied there too so it was basically the same situation. It did help though because it showed that the few Tufts applications probably weren’t flukes or outliers and the such.</p>
<p>I’m ‘in the ballpark’ but more of a far outfield player, so here’s to hoping i can pull it up for junior year :)</p>
<p>: ) Good luck!</p>
<p>Susan1993 – Don’t worry if you can’t get an interview. My S2 wasn’t able to get one last year and he is now a happy freshman at Tufts. :)</p>