<p>For gpa, these are weighted the same at my school. What about for college admissions?</p>
<p>Does your school show it on your transcript as an A- or an A+? My school just lumps everything 90% and above as an “A” even if it is an 91% or a 100%.</p>
<p>Same…but they show your transcript…which has the actual number grade right?</p>
<p>Schools all do it differently. Some schools show A-,A,A+. Some schools show just A, B, C. Some schools show actual number grades. (I’ve never personally ever seen an actual number on a transcript - that’s for the teacher only.) And, of course, schools weight honors courses differently or not at all. You can rest assured that college adcoms have seen it all, which is why they squint at the grades, since they aren’t going to recalculate 25,000 apps to a common standard.</p>
<p>^^My son’s school uses numbers on the transcript.</p>
<p>To the OP, since so many schools don’t use plus or minus, my guess is that there would be no difference.</p>
<p>For my school, they show an A-, A, or A+. Is this looked at by adcoms?</p>
<p>I don’t think they care that much since not all schools show the +/- or the actual number percentages.</p>
<p>all schools should just show the number grade…why the heck not? A 98-99 is a lot different than a 90-91.</p>
<p>A 100-point scale would all but eliminate ties for top GPA in the class.</p>
<p>However, an argument against the 100-point scale is that teachers naturally adjust how they grade.</p>