<p>How do they calculate it? What transcripts are you sending in- last four years of school?</p>
<p>If you don't have GPA system, they will put that into consideration.. some schools in the US don't use GPA either...</p>
<p>Yeah but at what grades (years) do they look then at?</p>
<p>last 4 years of school i.e. 9, 10, 11, 12...</p>
<p>what if you change programmes/countries/school type throughout?</p>
<p>submit transcripts from each of the schools you were part of if you gave exams in them/received grades. Write an explanatory note to the college detailing your situation. you'd get the most comprehensive answer if you emailed/called the college concerned.</p>
<p>what if we have 13th grade in secondary education here?9 10 11 12 13? or 10 11 12 13?</p>
<p>Whichever years are counted as part of High School, I'd advise that you look at the FAQ on the admissions website of the colleges concerned. As this is a fairly common dilemma for students in the UK, I believe, they'd have addressed this...</p>
<p>We have 13 years too and I reported everything since 9th grade (I used the PS column for grade 13). It just seemed most convenient to me.</p>
<p>My British Curriculum school just reports the actual GCSE grades, AS grades and predicted A level grades.</p>
<p>than I need to live the GPA form empty?
and don't put my score in any other form?</p>
<p>Do you get grades in school?
Then calculate your GPA with your original grades/scores and explain the scale those grades are on (e.g. a GPA of 1.8 on a scale from 1 to 6 with 1 being the best grade)</p>
<p>but in my school it's 0-100 and I don't know how the GPA goes, or how to calculate this ...
my average score is 84 than how I calculate them?</p>
<p>i will have to encounter this aswell, but trying to convert your foreign 'gpa' into an american style grading system is futile and basically impossible.
Atleast in my sisters case who applied to US schools this year she just had to have :
all her 'rapport cards' or grade sheets or whatever kindof described and translated by an american who worked at our school and knew what grades meant what and why and what was the test about etc. (the school she applied to didn't tell us to do this but we decided this would be better than having some cheapass company in europe translate her grade sheet for $200.)
-We had that approved by several people, such as workers at the local international school, the fullbright center and several people at our local american school. (they just stamped their thing and wrote a quick note of approval.)</p>
<p>That's how my sister did it atleast. But seriously, in some foreign countries(holland atleast), their are 6 people in our school that have been valedvictiorians, (on a 0-10 scale) it is normal to fail a subject or two and still pass, if you get a 7 you are almost a superstar because 8's and especially 9s and 10s are very scarce and some teachers only give 8's as the highest grade. The curriculum is large and difficult and this year in our junior class 30% got held back. In the Softmore year it was 33%. Not to mention the 4 levels of education you can recieve = different difficulty levels.</p>
<p>Such a system is not comparable to most US systems and therefor deserves to be viewed seperatly, which luckily happens at most schools. Wow this is a long post.</p>
<p>Sparco, if your average score is 84, put down 84 as your GPA on a scale from 100-0. If you are using CommonApp, you will have to specify roughly which point range is equivalent to an A, B... on an American scale. You can find a suggestion on how to do that here: <a href="http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wes.org/gradeconversionguide/</a></p>
<p>thanks folks,
I will put my scores as it is 0-100 !
and thanks for the site !</p>
<p>Freshman year. My unweighted average is something like a 8.54/10. According to that WES site, an 8/10 or higher in the Netherlands equals an A in the US. How can I convert my 8.54/10 (The Netherlands) into a US GPA on a scale of 0.0 to 4.0?</p>
<p>I was just wondering ;)... It's not very urgent or something.</p>
<p>Spend 200$ and get it converted from WES(wes.org)</p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>Leave it as it is. Colleges won't mind.</p>
<p>lol_nl, it is better to report your GPA as it is rather than converting it. If you would like to convert it anyway, you would have to convert every single grade and then compute your GPA from there.</p>
<p>Let's assume a hypothetical GPA of 8.5.
When that GPA is made up of two 9s and two 8s, 8.5 converts to 4.0.
If it consists of two 10s and two 7s, your GPA would be 3.5.
4.0 is quite different from 3.5 one might think....</p>