<p>I'm a junior and my overall GPA from freshman hear to exactly now is 95.72 on a 100 scale. Using my school's 4.0 GPA scale conversion chart, my GPA converts to a 3.69 GPA. Is this really my overall GPA? It seems lower than I expected. Will this give me a disadvantage to applying to colleges like BC, Villanova, Northeastern, and BU?</p>
<p>I don’t think that’d be the correct conversion for that number. A 95/100 equates to the letter grade “A” - or a 4.0 on a 4.0 scale. An A- is generally a 3.7, and seeing as your percentage is higher than a 93, I think your GPA would be higher than a 3.69.</p>
<p>That’s kind of weird. Usually 93-100 is a 4.0, and in some cases, 90-100.</p>
<p>I always thought it went like 95.72/25 = 3.8288</p>
<p>My school is a private Jesuit college prepatory high school. Maybe this conversion scale shows how rigorous my school is. What do u think?</p>
<p>I think for a proper conversion you would have to take each letter grade and plug it into an average on the 4.0 scale. That would probably yield a higher GPA.</p>
<p>For example, if half of your grades are 100s and the other half are 90s, you would have a GPA of 95. But on the 4.0 scale it would be (4.0+3.67)/2 = 3.83.</p>
<p>If all of your grades are 95s, then you would have a GPA of 95 and a 4.0.</p>
<p>^This. Convert each of your class grades to a 4.0 scale (ie, 93-100 A, 90-93 A-, etc) and average those.</p>
<p>Based on that conversion method, all my classes this year translate to 4.0. In freshman and sophomore years, all but two or three classes would be 4.0.</p>
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If that’s actually the case, it certainly puts into context the large number of CC students boasting of 4.0 averages . In our school district, a 90 is a B+/A- (92-94 would be a solid A-, 95-97 an A, and 98-100 an A+), and a 4.0 average would mean A+ grades in every class, something rarely–maybe never–achieved. Interesting. Of course these differences in determining averages are taken into account by the colleges, but not necessarily made clear on CC.</p>