<p>It seems like the majority of the east coast high schools use % for grade average. Could anyone convert it to grade point average?</p>
<p>Does a 3.5=90?
Or a 4.0=100?</p>
<p>Very confused.</p>
<p>You might have to check the colleges you are interested in, but here is a sample chart on the net. <a href="http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8286/GPA/gpa.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/8286/GPA/gpa.htm</a></p>
<p>"It seems like the majority of the east coast high schools use % for grade average. Could anyone convert it to grade point average?"</p>
<p>You don't, though I can tell you that a common scale is A=90-100, B=80-89, etc...As are worth 4, Bs are worth 3, etc...</p>
<p>And that website is VERY generous.</p>
<p>at my school,
3.3 = 90
3.5 = 91-93
3.7 = 94-96
4.0 = 97-100</p>
<p>See, this is exactly why you can't convert. If Johnny's scale was the one used in my school, almost nobody would even have a 3.7. Two Ivy acceptees would barely have 3.4s.</p>
<p>4.0 is sometimes 90-100 or 95+</p>
<p>3.5 is about a 90 or 80-90.</p>
<p>Most schools recalculate your GPA, so you don't really know what you're going to get.</p>
<p>"Two Ivy acceptees would barely have 3.4s."</p>
<p>That makes me feel better because I have about an 89.5 average or a 3.5ish on my scale. Of course, my courseload is absurdly rigorous (7IB, 2 AP this year), but I enjoy it. I hope that explains my less than perfect GPA because the 4.0 rejectees scare me.</p>
<p>Well, the best way to gauge your chances is to use a combination of rank and grades...if that 89.5 puts you in the top 20% only, that's not good enough regardless of the fact that "3.4s" got into Ivies in my school. But in my school, those people were in the top 10% or better.</p>
<p>I'm ranked 13/458 with the valedictorian at about a 94 unweighted, but my courseload exceeds her by a large amount.</p>
<p>Ha, then I wouldn't worry at all.</p>