My school is going grade-inflation crazy

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>To begin with, weighted gpas at my school were on a 6.0 scale with AP as a 6.0, honors as a 5.0, and regular as 4.0. This already made it possible to get above 5.0 wGPas, which in and of itself is ludicrous.</p>

<p>This year my school changed its unweighted gpa scale to something even more ridiculous than its weighted scale.
98-100 4.0 A+
94-97 4.0 A
92-93 4.0 A-
90-91 3.8 B+
86-90 3.5 B
84-85 3.0 B-
82-83 2.8 C+
77-81 2.5 C
75-76 2.0 C- and then on down to a D- at 70-71, 1.0</p>

<p>Is this not completely insane? I am frankly getting ****ed off at my school for this, since there were already multiple (about 5) people at the top of the class with 4.0s and the same weighted gpa, since they all took the same schedule. Now someone with straight Bs is somehow a 3.5 student, which should be reserved for someone with equal As and Bs. I sincerely hope that this will coincide with MUCH harder classes, but since my school mentioned that this will make application to scholarships and schools easier... I don't think so.</p>

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<p>What was the scale before? because that is still tougher grading than usual.</p>

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<p>It is?
Then I should get special consideration for having to deal with this:</p>

<p>94-100 = A = 4.0
85-93 = B = 3.0
74-84 = C = 2.0
65-73 = D = 1.0
0-64 = F = 0</p>

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<p>The scale before was that all grades of the same letter were the same. So all As were 4.0, all Bs were 3.0, etc. The number required for the letters was the same: 92+ for A, 84-91 for B, etc. That might sound somewhat higher than the usual 90-100 but since we have probably double digits of uw 4.0 and multiple people tied for highest wgpa the class difficulty seems to compensate.</p>

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<p>Yeah that sucks. I may be wrong, but I thought normal was</p>

<p>93-100 = A
90-93 = A-
87-90 = B+
83-90 = B
80-83 = B-
Same scale for C’s and D’s
<60 = F</p>

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<p>Here:
90-100 A (93 needed to be classified as an “honor student”)
80-89 B
71-79 C
70 D
Below F</p>

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<p>So, do colleges determine your unweighted GPA based on your county’s system, or do they go by College Board’s scale? </p>

<p>Cause I live in a county that doesn’t do 4.0-scale GPAs, although they said 90-100 is a 4.0, 80-89 is a 3.0, etc.</p>

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<p>It’s a private school (probably explains things to a degree), but I assume colleges use the uwGPA on the transcript.</p>

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<p>A 96 and up is a 4 at my school. It’s like motivation to work harder.</p>

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<p>100-93=A=4.00
92-85=B=3.00
84-77=C=2.00
76-69=D=1.00</p>

<p>This is my school. No weighting.
An A in gym is the same as an A in AP Physics.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t record percentages on our transcripts, just a letter grade, so I suppose this means colleges will be forced to go by my school’s system. </p>

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<p>FWIW, I got an A in AP Chem and a B in gym.</p>

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<p>See what I mean?
Its not care that you can slouch off and get an A in AP Chemistry but work your butt off for an A in gym and it counts the same!
Ridiculous!</p>

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<p>My school is normal.</p>

<p>100-89.5 - A
89.4-79.5 - B
79.4-69.5 - C
69.4-59.5 - D
59.4-0 - F</p>

<p>Put decimals because I’m not sure if other schools round up.</p>

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<p>Also,</p>

<p>AP = 5.0
Honor’s = 4.5
General Ed = 4.0</p>