<p>Hi, everyone. My school's GPA weighting system uses a +/- system in which an A+ in an AP class is a 6.67. However, I was told that many schols do not consider the plus/minus aspect of a grade in admissions. Will selective colleges such as Columbia and Brown take these into consideration when evaluating transcripts? Thanks :)</p>
<p>6.67 ?! Woah, you’re lucky. The highest grade point we can get is 4.5 for honors/AP classes at my school. Sorry, back to your question…I’m not exactly sure what Brown and Columbia’s system is, but I know that colleges have a certain way of calculating your GPA based on their standards, which is what they do for every applicant. I don’t know if that helped much, but you shouldn’t be too worried.</p>
<p>Ask THEM, not us.</p>
<p>mmm321, it doesn’t really matter that an A+ is a 6.67 vs. a 4.5 at your school because all of the grades would just be scaled to higher numbers. Schools generally recalculate to their own scales anyway from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>And OP, you should ask them. From what I’ve heard, many schools ignore pluses and minuses altogether, but I don’t know about Brown/Columbia.</p>
<p>They’ll normalize it. Frankly, they’ll look for good grades, and then look at other things. If you have a huge list of A+'s, though, that will be impressive, as long as your schedule is actually rigorous, and as long as your school doesn’t have a reputation for being easy or something.</p>
<p>Colleges have a way of rescaling every grade you have.</p>
<p>I doubt it, because your schools +/- system is very unique, delicate, and uncommon.</p>