<p>Is a college GPA different from a high school GPA? By this I mean, I know most colleges give you a 4.0 by simply having an A average, but is high school the same? I see everyone on here in high school has like a 3.9+ UW GPA. At my high school, a 3.9 GPA is a 99% average (which is pretty much impossible to attain in my school). I have a 97.5% average in my high school, but have all A's and A+'s, and my lowest sem. grade is a 94%. So the school says my UW GPA is 3.75, but when I apply to schools will my GPA be re-calibrated to their standards?</p>
<p>Yes
10char</p>
<p>@justonequestion: Which question are you answering?</p>
<p>And what exactly does “10char” mean? I’ve seen this countless times, but have no clue what it means.</p>
<p>LOL
Your message has to be at least 10 characters long. So when its not people insert “10 char” in their message to its over the 10 char rule.</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>LOL! I remember when I first joined the site I had to exact same question :P</p>
<p>My school is weird, we have it out of 100, not 4.0</p>
<p>And here I thought everyone did it that way :(</p>
<p>ohh…that’s a dumb rule haha</p>
<p>Im in NY, so we do it out of 100 boysssssssssssssssss.</p>
<p>95+ is 4.0</p>
<p>So you would be 4.0 in our school. But all schools are different. </p>
<p>Colleges re-calculate your GPA based on your schools profile and their own depending on your rigor and all that.</p>
<p>@nothingto: Thanks for the response. I’m glad that colleges re-calibrate my GPA to their standards…gives me some hope :)</p>
<p>I don’t remember ever having to specify on my college apps that my HS’s GPA system was on the +/- scale (or not). They just said give us your UW GPA on a 4.0 scale. And it also makes no sense that a college would bother “investigating” to correct this, especially since there are about a million HS’s an applicant can come from.</p>