<p>I'm so confused! My school does not provide me with a GPA based on a 4 or 5 point system. My average is 90.3. According to the Princeton review web site, that equates to a 3.5. Yet, I visited UMass yesterday and the admission counselor giving the information session said the average GPA for this incoming class was 3.5 which equates to an 87!
How do I know what my GPA is according to the colleges I'm applying to? Do they all have a different system?</p>
<p>Yes, basically. HSes also have different policies. Mine doesn't calculate GPA at all. Others I've seen on 6-point, 7-point, and 10-point systems. Others don't weight AP classes. They may not include non-academic classes. Colleges sometimes do their own thing (not counting freshman year, etc.). I wouldn't worry too much about it. The best thing to do is look at where people at your school got accepted with the GPAs that your school said they had.</p>
<p>Ok, I know exactly the frustration you have. While I was applying to transfer from community college I got so frustrated because some of the colleges would say my 3.5 in a class was an A and others a B! Word on street seems to be that a 3.5 is an A-. And since your school goes by the percentage, which is a 90.3 and obviously an A, UMASS has to take that into consideration. So don't fret!</p>
<p>My school doesn't use the GPA system either. Don't worry about it. You don't need to calculate it yourself.</p>
<p>I could be completely wrong, but a 3.5 happens to be just in between an A- and a B+ at my school. We calculate GPA like this.
A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
B 3.0</p>
<p>notice that the +/- .3 is based on the +/- of the letter grade. That's probably the source of geranium's confusion about the 3.5</p>
<p>OR
you can just aim for perfect average ;)
then you would know right away its a 4.0, heh.</p>
<p>But overall, 3.5 is not totally bad, in some colleges it is concidered "staying in honors" zone.</p>
<p>3.3 is a B+
but what percentage is a B+?</p>
<p>I would guess about 87-89 inclusive as a general guideline. Obviously, grading policies vary by school/district.</p>
<p>GPA is calculated differently at virtually every school. try naviance or your gc to see where people with similar GPA have ended up in the past</p>
<p>In my school, its as follows:</p>
<p>92.5+ A
89.5-92.49 A-
87.5-89.49 B+
82.5-87.59 B
79.5-82.49 B-</p>
<p>hyy my school gpa is out of 4.5 (IB school) ... does anyone here know how to calculate that ...iv got a 3.78 outta 4.5 ...whats that on a 4 point scale!??</p>
<p>What percentage is a 3.0?</p>
<p>At my school...</p>
<p>________AP / HONORS / REGULARS</p>
<p>97-100 | 5.0 / 4.5 / 4.0
93-96 | 4.8 / 4.3 / 3.8
90-92 | 4.6 / 4.1 / 3.6
87-89 | 4.4 / 3.9 / 3.4
83-86 | 4.2 / 3.7 / 3.2</p>
<p>and so on...</p>
<p>So a 3.0 is like a B-? Or ...?</p>
<p>Wow...I wish we had a similar weighting at my school...
for me, we have 5 levels: AP, H, A, B, C. </p>
<p>A = 3.5 - 4.0 = 90 - 100
B = 3.0 - 3.4999 = 80 - 89
C = 2.0 - 2.4999 = 70 - 79
etc..</p>
<p>APs = 1.25 x base score
H = 1.2 x
A = 1.1 x
B = 1.0 x
C = .9 x</p>
<p>Our weighting system sucks...
A B in an AP class is worth less than an A in a B class (all of which happen to be insanely easy) and just marginally better than an A in a C class (in which you could probably not do half of the work and still get an A).</p>
<p>I'm grateful my school just has the normal unweighted GPAs... :D</p>
<p>On the 4 5 point system, do you just calculate with 4+4+4+5+4 / 5 etc depending on your APs and Honors? So as long as you have all 5's you'd have a 5.0? That's sort of weird.</p>