How is an average converted to GPA on 4.0 scale?

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<p>Hello, I get different results when I google this, and most of them do not go above 4.0.</p>

<p>If an unweighted average is 98 and the weighted average is 101, what is the GPA on a 4.0 scale?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>That’s a 4.0.</p>

<p>Depending on the scale, some colleges use 94+ as the standard for a 4.0, some use 97+ as a 4.0.</p>

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<p>It is not necessarily a 4.0; it’s mathematically possible to have a 98 average and for one of the grades to be an 89.</p>

<p>Different colleges calculate differently. </p>

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<p>There are so many grading systems that it’s probably not worth it to try to convert to a 4.0 scale. If you want to convert, you have to convert each grade individually, and then average them. A 98 average could correspond to MANY different GPA’s depending on how many grades are B’s, or B+'s and A-'s if you take that into account. This is true even if you don’t take into account the fact that different schools have different grading systems (is a 90 an A or a 93 or a 96?) and different weighting systems (+0.5 for AP classes or +1?).</p>

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<p>Don’t even try to figure it out, everyone is going to give you a different answer. It seems that at some schools that give letter grades as low as a 90 is considered and A, thus a 4.0. At the other end of the spectrum I have seen charts where only a 100 average converts to a 4.0! What? </p>

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<p>A school’s example:
97-99 is A+ & 4.3 GPA
93-96 is A & 4.0 GPA
90-92 is A- & 3.7 GPA</p>

<p>This school assume no students get 100 & above.</p>

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<p>Yeah, all the individual grades need to be considered. When they say 93+ is a 4.0 or whatever, that’s referring to a grade in a single class, not an average. </p>

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<p>Contact your HS and see what they do to convert to a 4.0 scale. Remember that many colleges only want the unweighted grades and most will calculate their own gpa- including only courses they choose to consider “academic”, for example.</p>

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<p>Thanks everyone. </p>

<p>Yes I know that schools will recalculate the 5 core subjects and not include others, and yes, the unweighted average seems to be more important. The above-100 is because grades for honors and AP classes get multiplied. S’s school does not use letter grades at all so they are not relevant. They don’t use 4.0, they use a 100 scale.</p>

<p>I often see 4.3 GPAs and above here on this website, still not sure how those numbers are arrived at.</p>

<p>Thanks again, I appreciate the feedback.</p>