<p>Aside from weighting honors and APs, is there a small bump for a (+) or a deduction for a (-)? And if your kid has a 2.9999999999999999 -- does it get rounded to a 3.0?</p>
<p>Just wondering -- our school doesn't publish the methodology .....</p>
<p>on transcripts, it is shown as four decimals. Can't say if 2.999999 rounds to 3.0 or stays at 2.9999. The district follows the UC gpa model but is uncapped, i.e., one bonus point for every UC-approved honors/AP/IB course. Plusses and minuses show on transcript but are not bumped or decremented, i.e., a non honors A- is a 4.0 and a B+ is a 3.0. If an AP course, an A-/A/A+ would be a 5.0 and a B-/B/B+ would be a 4.0.</p>
<p>I feel like I've answered this a zillion times.
Scale is 1-100.
Classes are three levels.
Sheltered - not weighted
Regents and regular college prep - weighted x1.05 except for 9th grade level courses which don't offer honors (i.e. 100->105, but unweighted grades are on transcript only GPA is weighted)
Honors and AP's are weighted the same x1.1</p>
<p>Only "academic" courses are used in weighting - not sure what that means gets left out - I believe orchestra counts, but PE doesn't.</p>
<p>Highest GPA ever was 106.something. (Nothing gets translated to 4.0 scale so I don't know what colleges do with our grades.)</p>
<p>On my oldest son's transcript there were four numbers after the decimal point for the unweighted GPA and three for the weighted GPA!</p>
<p>The school refuses to give anyone their rank until it's too late to do anything about it - end of first quarter senior year. I asked where my younger son stood and they refused to tell me more than "at least top 25% if not better" :rolleyes:</p>
<p>High Honors (HH) 4.0
Honors (H) 3.8
Merit (M) 3.5
Satisfactory (S) 3.2
Unsatisfactory (U) 2.8
Failure (F) 2.0</p>
<p>There is no weighting. All courses are honors and accelerated. There are no "AP" courses.
For the first three years, all students take the same courses. The fourth year students have complete freedom to pursue an unlimited number of electives.
We do not take the Regents exams. We do not rank.</p>
<p>School district uses A, B, C... (4.0, 3.0...) with no +/- for each class, semester grade is given (progress report grades per 1/3 of semester so students/parents know how they're doing, only final one on transcript). All classes count, no weighting for honors or AP. Final exam grade also on report card. Maybe 3 or 4 decimal places for gpa, it's been a while since son was in HS. At least students don't have to unweight grades for UW system schools, although the schools use academic classes only.</p>
<p>100 point scale.
No weighting of any kind.
Number of credits is the only variant. (So that a year-long lab science counts as 1.3 credits rather than 1, and a semester course is .5.)</p>
<p>District does not weight grades, uses A, B, C... (4.0, 3.0...), no + or -. All classes count in gpa. Son's gpa would have been higher, therefore class rank. At least students don't have to recalculate for state colleges (although they do only academic classes gpa for UW). It's been a few years but I think they do 3 or 4 decimal places. Final grade for each semester on transcript, report card shows interim 1/3, 2/3 and final exam grades (nice to know how grades are while there's time to improve given the delay in report cards and end of grading period). Don't recall class rank being reported.</p>
<p>A - 4.0, B - 3.0, C, 2.0, etc. No + or -. AP classes are given a whole '1' added (so A = 5), and honors are given .5 (so A = 4.5).</p>
<p>You'll love this one.</p>
<p>College Prep Classes: A =12, A- =11, B+ =10, B =9, etc
Honors Classes: A =15, A- =14, B+ =13, B =12, etc
AP Classes: A =16.5, A- =15.5, etc.</p>
<p>My son's GPA according to this system was a 13, D is 11.6. I figure I should just divide by 3. That would give S a 4.3 and D a 3.8. </p>
<p>It doesn't really matter, the colleges will re-calculate it using their own method anyway. I REPEAT - COLLEGES WILL RE-CALCULATE USING THEIR OWN METHOD. YOUR HIGH SCHOOLS' METHOD REALLY DOESN'T MATTER, except as to how it pertains to ranking, if your high school ranks.</p>
<p>D's HS gave no weight to advanced classes. 4.00 was max GPA possible.</p>
<p>Read post #9 everyone! </p>
<p>btw- couldn't correct a sentence in my post at the time (CC server problems), it was awkward, but not worth changing. It is interesting to see how others do things- no wonder colleges recalculate with their own methodology.</p>
<p>I know one school that doesn't recalculate - they take whatever your school reports - even for scholarships - Indiana.</p>
<p>My D's school is on a 5.0 scale, but it's just like a 4.0 scale except A=5.0, B=4.0, C=3.0, etc. There are + and - grades: A+ = 5.33 and A- = 4.67. Honors and AP classes get an extra 0.5. Rounding is at the discretion of the teacher; none of my D's teachers have ever rounded up, no matter how close she was. The teachers also get to decide what number grade = the letter grade. There is a guideline, but the teachers don't have to follow it. So one teacher may consider an 87 a B while another considers it a B+.</p>
<p>But even Indiana is going to have to translate our number grades to a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>I agree, I never worried about our grading scale though I wish there were an extra bump for APs over honors as it would have helped my kid. Though realistically I doubt it would have made any difference in college acceptances - I doubt he'd have been val or sal even with an extra bump and he was still in the top 2% of the class.</p>
<p>D's school does not rank. Kids are graded on a 100% scale which is then translated to a 4 point scale. 0-59 is E or 0; 60-69 is D or 1; 70-79 is C or 2; 80-89 is B or 3; 90-100 is A or 4. Some teachers convert on a different scale. AP and Honors are worth an extra point if you get a C or higher.</p>
<p>It is very easy to get high scores if you know which classes and which teachers to take. D refuses to play that game (and so do I).</p>
<p>Every time this question gets posted in CC, I'm amazed at the different results....</p>
<p>In NC, A is 93-100, B is 85 - 92, etc. (which I've hated from the time we've moved here!)</p>
<p>When calculating GPA, an A in a "regular" class is 4.0. An A in an "honors" class is 5.0, and an A in an AP class is 6.0</p>
<p>It seems to be a relatively straightforward system, and the valedictorian tends to be the one that got straight A's AND who took the most AP courses. There is a lot of "gaming the system" and both my kids found a lot of kids in both Honors and AP courses that were not ready for that level class, but they reasoned that a D in an AP course = a B in a regular course. Kind of frustrating.</p>
<p>Back to the 7-point grading scale, although it's helpful for schools to "equalize" GPA's by recalculating, they have no way of knowing that 3 of my D's B's during high school were in the 90 - 92 range. (At least most of the teachers round up...92.5 gets rounded up to an A).</p>
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<p>Yale, for one, specifically states that they DO NOT recalculate GPA. They accept whatever method the HS uses, and the resulting rank, if any.</p>
<p>And in our state, each school establishes their own method. There is no state-wide rule.</p>
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<p>Some do, some don't. Run the math and count the days on the calendar. Harvard recieves thousands upon thousands of applications, most of which arrive in the first week of January. (As is noted on this thread, there are probably dozens of ways that high schools post grades. This of course, does not count the internationals and translation/transcription.) </p>
<p>Does Havard really have the time and resources (ok, they have the resources, but would they spend them in that way) to recenter EVERY high school transcript and still post decisions March 31? How many transcripts would they have to process each and every day even before they begin reading? Hmmm....</p>
<p>Just using H using as an example of a college with resources. Obviously, the standard private doesn't have same $$.</p>
<p>From what we heard when D applied to colleges, they re-calculate by mostly stripping weight. So, Unweighted GPA seemed to be a better indicator of success. If a kid a straight "A" with the most challenging classes possible at particular HS, there is nothing to worry about.</p>