<p>I know at the majority of school an A is 90 and above. At my school, though, an A is 86 and above. If I have an 89, will colleges view this as an A or a B?</p>
<p>I think they will definitely consider the grading scale that your school uses. It would unfair to compare you to other applicants who have a 90-100, 80-90, 70-80, etc. grading system.</p>
<p>Colleges almost always prefer to look at class rank rather than GPA precisely because of this kind of difference in grading scales. If your high school provides class rank information, colleges will consider your rank instead of your grades. If not, they will try to come up with a ballpark estimate of your class standing if possible.</p>
<p>My highschool is on the 7-point scale. 93-100 is an A, 85-83 is a B, etc.</p>
<p>But the numerical scales aren't necessarily comparable either. A 90 (=A at school X) might be equivalent to an 80 (=A at school Y) if the students at school B are studying harder material, taking harder tests, and so on. Or it could go the other way: the students at school X might be studying harder material and taking harder tests, and at the same time be on a harder grading scale. That's why raw GPAs, weighted or unweighted, don't tell you all that much. Class rank might tell you something, but again the quality of the overall student body might be stronger at one school than another. That's why the better schools look not only at GPA but also at test scores which provide a national comparative benchmark; and also at the "quality of the educational environment" which is the college's attempt to evaluate the rigor of the HS curriculum overall, how demanding a course load this student took, how strong this student's record is vis-a-vis other applicants from the same school, how well past students from the same HS performed at that college in the past, and so on.</p>
<p>me too.
are you from canada?</p>