<p>help! I'm an international student who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada..
Up here where I live we don't have GPA to measure our grades, but I want to attend university in the US. Whenever I look at colleges it always talks about the high school GPA's of incoming freshmen, but I have no idea what my GPA is or how to calculate it so I can't really compare myself to their students.. it makes the whole thing really difficult
Can someone let me know how to do this please? Thank you so much!!!</p>
<p>Every school is different but... </p>
<p>For every class, an A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 </p>
<p>Just take their average and that's your unweighted GPA. </p>
<p>Weighted is a little tricky... adds 1 pt to a class so A=5, B=4... which classes are weighted is different from school to school. Don't worry about weighted GPA... UW is what's important in many cases.</p>
<p>thank you! that helps a ton haha but what is A, B, C, and D? we don't have those either! haha just percentages!
and also, when i am calculating, do I only use the classes I'm in right now? or do I use every class I've taken in high school?</p>
<p>jeez, A usually is 90-100, B is 80-89, C is 70-79, D is 60-69, and F is all the rest. It really depends, but since GPAs differ so dramatically (Mine is out of 5.0, but some people have GPAs out of 8.3 or something random) what's really important is class rank and rigor of classes. I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you have all As, that's a 4.0, all As and a few Bs is like a 3.9, half As, half Bs is like a 3.5. It's only a small part of your app and as long as you did well generally you'll be fine</p>
<p>Some schools eliminate classes like PE or living skills when calculating the GPA.
The University of California GPA is calculated using a worksheet available on the UC admissions website...only certain classes are counted, and freshman classes are counted, but freshman grades are not.</p>
<p>Oh okay, well I only took PE 9 and 10. I have a full course load so I wasn't able to take PE 20 (I'm a junior right now), and I'm in the International Baccalaureate program.. does that affect my GPA at all?</p>
<p>Actually, the grade ranges posted (A = 90 ~ 100) are incorrect for most Canadian high schools. Most Canadian high schools use a 86 ~ 100 range for A's, 72 ~ 85 for B's, and err... I honestly don't remember what the range for C+, C, and C- are. However, an A in Canada, is comparable to an A in the US. That is to say, if you got 86%, an A in Canada, that DOES NOT translate to 86% in the US, hence a B. You would get an A in the American system with the 86% in a Canadian high school, and hence, a 4.0 for that course. Make sense? IB, would only affect your GPA if you took it as weighted, which will help in some ways. But UW, the grade in your IB course will not be elevated in anyway whatsoever. What you get in your IB course will be what affects you unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>So, if I currently have 81 in Bio IB, 85 in Chem IB, 86 in Social IB, and 88 in Pre-calc IB, then that would be a 3.5 GPA? Not sure I've got it straight haha. I know it doesn't matter all that much because the GPAs differ so radically from high school to high school, but it would still be nice to have some kind of number instead of grasping at straws.</p>
<p>Basically, at least from what I know of how Canadian high schools give out letter grades. For that semester at least. Your GPA should be the average of ALL your courses through out high school. Depending on the school, you can ignore your freshman year though.</p>
<p>I’m from Alberta too, it works like this.</p>
<p>A = 80-100
B = 70-79
C = 60-69
D = 50-59
F = <50</p>
<p>You may think this is easier, but it’s much more difficult to get high grades in Alberta than in the USA. Here, class averages are generally in the 50-70% range, while there the class averages hover around 80%.</p>