<p>I'm posting this on both the Parent and High School forums in the hopes help...</p>
<p>My daughter's high school uses QPAs instead of GPAs. I'm not-so-patiently waiting for her guidance counselor mail us the QPA conversion.</p>
<p>In the interim, does anyone know the formula to convert Quality Point Average to Grade Point Average? For example, my daughter's QPA is xx.xx and I'd like to know where this 30-something QPA falls on the traditional 4.0 GPA scale.</p>
<p>My son’s school uses that as well and I am so confused. Here’s something you can do. Using the school’s grading scale (90+=A, 80+ =B or whatever it is), convert all A’s to 4.0, all, B’s to 3.0–just like the old days. Add them up and divide by the number of credits (semester classes count as 1/2 credit). That will give you a GPA on a 4.0 scale. To complicate it, try to figure out how your schoool weights and add that in. </p>
<p>I hope that this doesn’t sound crazy. It makes perfect sense to me! Below is th chart the school uses for numerical grade conversion. I hope that you can read it; it has four columns. 75 is the lowest C.</p>
<p>GRADE GPA GRADE GPA GRADE GPA
90 4.0 83 3.3 76 2.2
89 3.9 82 3.2 75 2.0
88 3.8 81 3.1 74 1.8
87 3.7 80 3.0 73 1.6
86 3.6 79 2.8 72 1.4
85 3.5 78 2.6 71 1.2
84 3.4 77 2.4 70 1.0</p>
<p>Thanks. I’ll give it a try if I can track down all 9 semesters completed to date.</p>
<p>Couldn’t help but notice you were in Maryland also. Is this just some strange thing our state does to keep us in the dark? I assume you’re son is at a private school also?</p>
<p>My son is in a Catholic school. He will be a junior, so I am trying to ignore his GPA. For his school, I think the way they figure it will be good for him. They grade on a 100-point scale. So a student could have 50 percent 95’s and 50 percent 85’s and have a 90 average, which would be a 4.0.</p>
<p>You only need final grades for the year. Your daughter can probably tell you. My daughter could–son, not on a bet.</p>