<p>Do colleges recalculate your GPA based on percentages, or do they just use the letter grades? Because an A at some schools requires a higher percentage than an A at other schools.</p>
<p>Yes, colleges recalculate. You high school gives a complete packet which tells not only how hard the classes are and classes offered, but how hard it is to get an A+, A, A-, ect, including the percentage. Colleges will take all thses factors into consideration to level the playing field for all apllicants.</p>
<p>I heard of some colleges even rid of PE and other electives, recal GPA.
some just look at UW GPA.</p>
<p>Since they vary so much, has anyone on cc compiled a list showing the formula each individual college uses to calculate GPA? This info is often kept obscure (or at least so it seems for many privates) which means students have no real understanding of how competitive their stats are. Do we have a thread on this? I’d love to see one.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t find out percentages, at least from my school. All they see is the letter grade. </p>
<p>In fact, not only are classes graded on different percentages between schools, but the past two years I had a teacher where, to get an A, you needed a 94 instead of the 93 that all the other teachers at our school use. Add that to the fact that his tests were 6 out of 55 get As (for both years), whereas other teachers had half their students with As. But I digress.</p>