<p>I recalculate my last year's gpa ( the school's not doing so though) to see how it'd fit in this system. It was originally 4.07 and went down to 3.975. (out of 4.50) AHH! lol okay i'm done.</p>
<p>Ouch...I would go talk to the admins and see if they could limit it to incoming freshmen. We change our system every two years or so (yes, seriously) and the new one only applies to future classes because they know the upperclassmen will all probably b*tch about it.</p>
<p>From a college's perspective, the stricter grading scale makes the school look stronger and more competitive. If an A was simply 90-100, a college may not consider a 4.0 or a high gpa to be that indicative of a student's academic caliber. However, with a difficult grading scale, the high school comes off looking like a more sound institution of learning.</p>
<p>P.S. This is what my high school should have said to us when they switched our grading scale half way through my hs career. Instead I had to come up with this answer myself, lol</p>
<p>It's ok. Don't worry, GreenDayFan. Good colleges recalculate GPA. Stanford, for example, recalculates all GPAs so they are on a straight 4.0 scale and discards any + or - signs.</p>
<p>What happens though, when you end up getting a B+, and Stanford knocks it down to a B while the kid who got a B- gets bumped up to that B. The world is against us man!</p>
<p>Yeah, you'll be fine, our district has been grading on that system for at least 20 years, you'll adapt soon enough, and don't worry, usually when they have grade value changes teachers will just adjust accordingly, so...</p>
<p>silentsailor they wont let it be just for freshman it's for everyone, they're just gonna note on transcripts that up to 2006 they used a different scale.</p>
<p>I have never really known a school that never uses minuses...besides, we don't put such marks on our transcripts, just A, B, C, D, F, and P (pass/fail in a P/F course).</p>
<p>This post is one of the reasons why GPA isn't really a consideration anymore in the college admissions process. That is, the actual number isn't so important, but rather the rank/percentile you are actually in. Your school has a 4.5 A+, his has a 4.33, mine has a 5.0-it is so inconsistant. The important thing to look at with GPA is your rank because it directly compares you to other people under the same scale. You have a 3.975, but if you compare that to someone at a different school, the number becomes meaningless. Rank is infinitely more important than GPA, worry about your place more than anything.</p>
<p>See, that gives a better picture of what kind of a student you are. 10/350 is pretty good-anything in the top 5% is competitive, especially in a large class like this one.</p>