<p>My school only gives the actual grades on a scale of 100%. So, after calculating all your test, homework and quiz grades, if your grade comes out to be a 95, that is the grade that is put on your transcript (not an A). What is the best way to convert these grades to a 4.0 scale. For example, if I just take 95/100 and multiply by 4 then I get 3.8. But I think I might not be doing this accurately, because in most schools if you get a 95, that is considered an A which is then a 4.0, right? </p>
<p>If you are filling out a college application, don’t convert your GPA unless specifically requested (very unlikely), Use the scale that matches your transcript.</p>
<p>If you want to convert your grades to GPA for your own amusement, there are many different conversion scales. [url=<a href="College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools[/url</a>] one.</p>
<p>Thanks, I was just looking at this website. I won’t try to convert it on the applications, because it creates too much discrepancy. </p>
<p>There really is no accurate way to convert it because in some schools, an A can be as low as 89.5 and be perfectly accepted as such. Your grades will be looked as in context with your school, not converted to some arbitrary system. Colleges are expert at reading transcripts and getting what they want out of them - I wouldn’t be surprised if an overall GPA is one of the least used pieces of information out there at holistic schools. It tells them almost nothing that they want to know.</p>
<p>thank you for this response. It makes me feel so much better. In our school, it is very difficult to get above a 92 based on the way the teachers grade. Only a handful ever get above this in the AP/Honors courses. Most end up in the 88 to 89 range. Hopefully the colleges know this. Alot of kids in our school try to help their GPA by just taking easy elective or easy AP courses to boost up their overall GPA number. I didn’t do this, and really focused on courses I was really interested in (which tended to be the hardest AP courses in the school). </p>
<p>Taking easy courses to boost GPA is probably the most common mistake high schoolers (and their parents) make. It doesn’t work. Taking rigorous courses and doing well does.</p>