<p>Does Princeton even care? This is as a Freshman, by the way.</p>
<p>Second semester:</p>
<p>A
A-
A-
A-
A-
A+</p>
<p>Still a perfect GPA at my school. They don't recalculate the +s and -s, right? What's the motivation to go for an A+ instead of an A-?</p>
<p>Princeton doesn’t consider your freshman high school grades in the application process.</p>
<p>And even if the adcoms did and if they converted to Princeton’s grading policy (A+ and A = 4.0, A- = 3.7), then you’d still have a 3.8 (UW), which is fine. But nonetheless, freshman high school grades are not considered.</p>
<p>I find it strange that your school would even mark +s and -s on your transcript if there is no difference in their GPA weights.</p>
<p>Don’t they do that at all High Schools?</p>
<p>90-100=4.0
80-89= 3.0
70-79= 2.0
60-69= 1.0</p>
<p>No, my high school was as follows:</p>
<p>A+, A = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.5
B = 3.3
B- = 3.0
C+ = 2.7
C = 2.5
etc…</p>
<p>I like Petyoncline’s school’s grading policy. Even though no one at our school would have a 4.0, it gives some credit for a borderline B+.</p>
<p>In case any of you were wondering, at Princeton it’s…</p>
<p>A+, A = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3
B- = 2.7
C+ = 2.3
C = 2.0
C- = 1.7
D+, D, D- = 1.0</p>
<p>My school’s like Petyoncline’s; do Princeton adcoms recalculate without -s and +s?</p>
<p>I don’t know if Princeton’s adcoms recalculate based on Princeton’s own grading system (ray121988’s post) or just by dropping the +'s and -'s (i.e. A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0). I would think they would use the latter method since it’s pretty simply to do, but they may recalculate either way.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t even use - and + it’s just A,B,C…</p>
<p>What’s the range for A- … 90-93, or 90-94? I have 3 93’s and the rest way above that.</p>