quick question about calculating GPA

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<p>Can someone please explain how can a person get a 4.00 unweighted GPA? Wouldn't that mean getting 100s in all of your classes to have an unweighted 100 gpa?</p>

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<p>Yes, in order to have a 4.0 UW a person is supposed to get an A (or w/e is equivalent to a 4.0) in every class they ever take in high school.</p>

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<p>Many (most?) schools give 4 GPA points for any A, not just an A+ or a 100 in the course, so you could make straight 89.5's and still have a 4.0 GPA</p>

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<p>The fact is that many schools give extra points if the student earns an A in AP/Honors classes. for ex. my school gives 5 points for AP/Honors Class A and 4 points for B compared to 4 pts. for A in Applied/CP and 3 pts. for B</p>

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<p>wow 89.5's and have a 4.0? that is amazing, at my school an 89.5 is a B (not even a B+ ) and on our gpa conversion chart a B is a 3.0 :( sucks for us i guess.</p>

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<p>Most classes at my school are like that, too, skichic06. If my school used the 89.5=4.0 scale I would have about a 3.98 instead of my crappy 3.6! It just sucks to be us, I guess. My school also gives 3.5 for A- instead of the 4.0 given at many other schools. (Additionally, each teacher gets to use his/her own grading scale, so colleges wouldn’t be able to see a “master” grading scale to show that the scale is tougher than at most places.)</p>

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<p>At my school:</p>

<p>4.333 for A+
4.000 for A
3.666 for A-
...</p>

<p>They figure GPA two ways. For class rank, they use A+s...my GPA using A+s is 4.171. Without using A+s (counting A+ as equal to an A), I think my GPA is somewhere around 3.99 (I got an A- one semester in English)</p>

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<p>At my school, the only way to have a 4.00 unweighted is to have a 100 in every class</p>

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<p>i feel your pain ShadowOfAnEnigma :(</p>

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<p>we only have A, B, C, D, and F. No + or -. For unweighted, A = 4, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, and F = 0. You multiply the numerical equivalent (A = 4, B = 3, etc) times the number of credits for each class, add up all those seven numbers (for seven classes, including gym, yay!), and divide by the total number of credits attempted. The whole point of the credits thing is so that Calculus and science courses - which have labs, so they count for 6 or 7 credits - are more significant when calculating your GPA. So a B in AP Bio is a lot worse than a B in AP Euro.</p>

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<p>**** and answer is question which is YES</p>