<p>In my school were given a grade out of 100%.
My Average is a 93, and I was wondering if anybody knew how to convert that into the 4.0 scale.
I don't think just making it a proportion work ie-(93/100)*4=3.72
does anybody know the real way to convert a 93 or a 90
and also whats the deal with weighting??
my school does not weight regardless of ap or honors!
am i at a disadvantage with these kids with a 5.0 gpa??</p>
<p>You are not at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>Admission committees are familiar with the differences in grading approaches at high schools. When your school is large enough and when there is a history of applicants from your school they compare you to others from your school.</p>
<p>Not all schools weigh grades, and not all schools rank. That’s the case for many of the most academic private schools, and it varies widely among public schools. Some schools have a tendency to inflate grades, while others are more critical and conservative in grading. So even an “unweighted” A from one school is not necessarily better than an “unweighted B+” from another.</p>
<p>Your school’s guidance counselor knows all this. And if there’s a need he’ll be able to convert your number grades to letter grades.</p>
<p>The conversion is arbitrary, and therefore will vary by admissions office.</p>
<p>I would do it this way:</p>
<p>90-92 = A-
93-97 = A
98 - 100 = A+</p>
<p>^That’s the general way it’s done (though it varies by high school). </p>
<p>A+/A 4.0
A- 3.7
B+ 3.3
etc</p>
<p>Calculate the 4.0-scale grade for each of your classes and then average them. But I think most colleges have their own system of weighting (I’ve heard only academic classes are used, freshman year grades discounted, and junior year grades weighted twice).</p>
<p>I don’t know of any high schools that weigh an A+/A/A- differently. I thought only colleges do that…At all the high schools I know of, an A (90-100) is a 4.0, B (80-89) is a 3.0, C is a 2.0 and D is a 1.0.</p>
<p>collegehappy has a point. I once read a post here on CC by a mom who called Stanford’s admissions office to ask specifically how they recalculated prospective applicants’ GPA’s. They told her that they considered all A-minuses, A’s, and A-pluses as 4.0’s. It makes sense, too, because due to the fact that many high schools automatically consider a 90 or above a solid A (and don’t use +/- grades at all), while many others assign different weightings to pluses and minuses, assigning different values to the pluses and minuses would put those applicants whose high schools use the +/- system at a disadvantage.</p>
<p>A lot of schools, including my own, use the system you’ve mentioned. Just take the average of all your current grades and divide by 25 to get it on a scale of 4.</p>
<p>To the above poster… that just doesn’t make sense to me. That allows people with low As to get 4.0? A 90 on the usual scale (again divided by 25) is a 3.6. </p>
<p>But I guess every school is different, which is why GPAs aren’t really that important compared to rigor/rank. Rigor of your courseload is probably one of the most important parts of your transcript.</p>
<p>Its kinda absurd that there is no standard way of calculating GPAs… and it seems like some of these methods are inflating a schools average GPA for ranking purposes o.O</p>
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<p>Not only does my school have a bogus GPA system with no waited GPA, it also does not provide rankings.</p>
<p>^ Weird. Do they at least tell you if you rank in the top so many percent or whatever? Like how would your school decide who is valedictorian or whatever?</p>
<p>Ask your school counselor. Your school should provide the conversion scale with your transcript. Either it will appear right on your transcript or on an information sheet about your school that is included with it.</p>