<p>95/100= x/4 x=3.8 Or is it a little different than that</p>
<p>no A=4
so If you have all As you have a 4.0
B=3.0 ect</p>
<p>ok so what would a 95 GPA equal on a 4.0 scale</p>
<p>ok i get in nvm</p>
<p>a 3.8 is a 93
a 4.0 is a 95+</p>
<p>The problem with assuming 95/100=x/4.0 is that you forget that on the 4.0 scale, grades of F often mean 0 points, even though they can also be anything below 60/100 many times.</p>
<p>Oh, but I think GPA based on the 10.0 scale is stricter than the one based the 4.0 scale. The reason is your teacher has various options to grade you on the 10.0 scale while he has less options on the 4.0 scale. For example, a near-perfect task might receive a 4.0 on the 4.0 scale but in the 10.0 scale, the same task would receive a 9 or 8 (this is applied to my country). Consequently, a GPA of above 9.5/10 is kinda "impossible" in my school. Kids who manage to have their GPAs above 9.0/10 are often at the 1st place in their class (small class, has about 50 students - I'm Asian, so the educational system in my country is different from yours).
And 1 more thing, our school does not "transform" our GPAs into the ranking of A, B or C. So I wonder if admission officers aware of this ('cause we apparently have lower GPAs than , sorry if you find it offensive, most American kids who are the same or worse than us.)</p>
<p>I'm afraid your mistaken--usually we're given letter grades based on percentages on a 100 scale. The letter grades are then assigned points, that are averaged to 4. The grades themselves aren't on scales of 0-4. :)</p>
<p>Unless it's different for others, but I think it's either the 100 point scale or letter grades-to-GPA for most schools in the US.</p>
<p>We use only the 100-point scale</p>
<p>Sorry i was wrong. My school grades on the the 10.0 scale</p>
<p>I think the only thing any college really cares about is your rank. You can have a 10% ranking with 3.55 (I saw someone on this forum) and 15% with 3.9 and the reason is that educational system in US really has no standards or at least common set of rules.</p>
<p>yea but a lot of schools don't rank at all</p>
<p>And to those schools they ask for the nearest decile--rank is pretty important.</p>
<p>Is there some sort of formula for this?</p>
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<p>Yes, any formula taking an overall average like 93.5 and converting into a 4.0 scale GPA is just an approximation. To get a more accurate version you need to look at each grade and determine if is an A, a B, a C, etc. </p>
<p>So for example at a school where 93 and up is an A two studetns with 94 averages could have different GPAs. One student for 5 courses has 94, 94, 94, 94, 94 ... a 94 average ... and A, A, A, A, A ... a 4.0 GPA. Another student has 98, 94, 90, 92, 96 ... a 94 average ... and A, A, B, B, A ... a 3.6 GPA average. For all but the very top students getting a high GPA requires more consistency than getting a high 100 point scale average.</p>
<p>3togo has explained the US system well.</p>
<p>In many Asian countries the grading system is ridiculous. The marks awarded on the 100 point scale for each subject totalled and divided by the number of subjects to get rankings such as 96.55 (I rank), 96.48 (II rank), 96.32 (III rank) etc. It is unbelievable how people become suicidal for losing 1 mark out of 100. Kids try to take high-scoring electives to boost their % of marks.
US system of grading is much saner for it emphasizes two things:
(1) There is little meaningful difference between scores that are apart by only a couple of points out of 100.
(2) Consistency in a wde range of subjects is valuable (= higher GPA).</p>