<p>I am a good student in AP/ Honors classes. I have a good, fairly strong application, but I have a slight problem with my letter grades.</p>
<p>My junior year, I bit off more than I could chew and ended up with a B plus, a C plus, a D plus, a C plus, a B, a C plus, and an A plus. </p>
<p>My county calculates grades differently than every other surrounding county and the colleges. We have a really small margin for our grading scales. So if I lived one county over I'd have ended up with an A, a B, a C, a B, a B, and and an A plus, which are considerably better than what I actually recieved.</p>
<p>I've heard from a couple sources that colleges will take my county's grading scale into account while reviewing my transcripts and they will re-calculate my GPA, putting all my grades onto the college scale.</p>
<p>I just wanted to know if this is true, because if it is it will vastly improve my chances at getting into a good school.</p>
<p>Some colleges will recalculate your GPA while others will not. All will take your class rigor into account. Just do your best to get your grades up.</p>
<p>As Erin’s Dad explained, some schools will recalculate your GPA completely (some including electives, some not), while others do not. Your school will include what’s called a profile with your transcript. It includes your grading scale, what APs are offered, any weighting given to advanced classes, specialty programs offered (Cambridge, IB, etc.), average SAT scores for your school, GPA spread for your class, etc. This helps the reader interpret your grades fairly in context of how the grades are awarded, and what was available to you. It tells them what does an A really means.</p>
<p>So, in the surrounding counties their B is a C for me and their A is a B for me. If I’m being compared with someone from one of those counties and they have a B in a subect and I have a C plus, but it’s the same numerical value (like an 82 let’s say) will they choose that student over me because they got a B and I didn’t?</p>