<p>Would anyone happen to know how IB diploma scores/predicted grades relate to GPA? </p>
<p>Ive been in the international system all my life so I don't really know where I stand against all your 4.0s...</p>
<p>Although my high school doesn't give us our predicted grades I was probably predicted between a 43 and a 45:
English A1 HL - 7
Chemistry HL - 7
Math HL - I have no clue, my grades have ranged between 5 and 7
Mandarin B SL - 7
Business and Management SL - 7
Biology SL - 7
TOK - A
Extended Essay - A</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t give predicted IB scores, what will your transcript say when you apply? For students in IB programs in the US, there are typically letter grades as well as the IB scores, and those letter grades will go to colleges on the transcript. Do international programs have similar grades and transcripts?</p>
<p>Since the IB diploma is a 2 year program, our transcripts consist of how well we have been doing in our subjects (using the 1-7 IB scale) during that semester. We only have letter grades for TOK (Theory of Knowledge) and the E.E. (extended essay, which is basically a research paper).
However, these transcripts are only there to show our progress and in the end they don’t matter; only our final IB grades appear on our diploma.</p>
<p>According to how well we have been doing so far our teachers have to calculate our predicted grades, in other words what they think we will get in the final exam.</p>
<p>Our school sends the predicted grades but teachers are not allowed to tell us what they are. Although it is sometimes very easy to deduce them (for example when you have been very consistent with your grades), in other cases it is more difficult (for example my math grades were very inconsistent and varied between 5s and 7s so I don’t know what she ended up predicting me).</p>
<p>I don’t know how U.S. colleges deal with predicted IB scores. I don’t think it’s like elsewhere in the world, where admission is granted conditional on actual scores being within a certain range of predicted–but maybe it is at some places.</p>