<p>My school gives out cumulative grades out of 100, not out of 4.0. I'd like to be able to tell what my grade is in terms of the 4.0 scale, but I don't know how to convert it. Can anyone help?</p>
<p>For each semester/trimester/quarter grade that you have, assign it a value out of 4. For an A (90+), give it 4 points; B (80-89) - 3 points and so on. Add all of these points up and divide by the number of semester grades. This will give you an unweighted GPA out of 4.0. </p>
<p>For weighted averages, different schools weigh grades differently, but the most common system that I have seen is giving an extra point for each honors/AP class.</p>
<p>"For each semester/trimester/quarter grade that you have, assign it a value out of 4. For an A (90+), give it 4 points; B (80-89) - 3 points and so on. Add all of these points up and divide by the number of semester grades. This will give you an unweighted GPA out of 4.0."</p>
<p>ARE YOU KIDDING?!?! YOUR A'S ARE 90+!?!? </p>
<p>other schools are so easy, do colleges look at this, or just at your GPA, if they only look at GPA that would make me angry, thats totally unfair</p>
<p>(our scale)
A: 93+
B: 85-94
C: 76-84
D: 68-75
F: -67</p>
<p>you think 90+ is bad? you'd hate my school even more, 89.5 is an A. for me, it doesn't matter, i try to keep 95+ in all my classes, but then there are those who get 89.5 in half their classes, but we all get the same grade. for example, in my euro AP class, i worked my ass off and kept a 98+ all 2nd semester. then there were those who did... well, nothing. they didn't do the readings, bs'ed all the homework, but they're good test takers and they listen to class discussions, so they pull their grade up to that borderline. and then we get the same grade... it makes me mad that slackers can get the same grade as me. that may sound bitchy, but i really don't think that an 89.5 and 100 should both be an A.</p>
<p>wow for our school A - 94+ B+ 90-93 B 84-89 C+ 80-84 etc</p>
<p>ok, so seriously, do schools look at your grading scales, or is an A an A (be it 95+ or 89+) that just gives a distinct advantage to people in the schools with 89+ As, their GPAs skyrocket while the GPAs of the people at the more challenging schools (speaking in terms of grading only) get screwed, i'm not personally complaining, I maintain all As, but if I could be working .5 as hard at a different school (there are people who will barely get As, but still get them at the more lenient schools) and be looked upon the same by colleges, it's unfair. This may seem somewhat strange, but shouldn't there be a universal grading system? Somebody please respond on how colleges react to this</p>
<p>I think colleges do have a universal grading system because they convert everyone's grades to a 4.0 scale.
I'm not 100% sure, but I heard that is what they do.
They also consider honors with more weight, and AP/IB with most weight.</p>
<p>I think colleges do the 90-100, 80-90 for A's, B's etc.</p>
<p>Although I find that very easy to get all A's with.</p>
<p>My school does 93 - 100 A, 85 - 92 B, 77 - 84 C, 70 - 76 D, 0-69 F</p>
<p>Jyankees, do you really expect everything to be completely fair?
What if the schools that give A's to 90+ have harder classes that it's more difficult for a student to get a 90 there than it is for you to get a 93? Now is that fair? Should adcoms go research every single high school, weigh the course difficulty in comparison to high schools around the country, and then come up with some fancy scale that takes grade and difficulty level into consideration?</p>
<p>thats not what i'm saying, I agree that it is definately possible for highschools with lower scales to have more difficult classes, but many don't. If my GPA is for example (it's not) 3.75, with a few high Bs, and somebody at another school has a 4.0, they would be selected before I would if we had similar other credentials, although they are not any better, they just appear to be due to their school's lenient grading policy.</p>
<p>Just divide by 25.</p>
<p>^ that’s a dumb idea to divide by 25. What if they had an average of 50%? Then you’re saying their average is a 2.0? No. It’s a 0 or maybe a .6 if they passed some classes.</p>
<p>At my school
A - 90-100
B - 80-89
C - 70-79
F - Everything Else</p>
<p>It’s kinda funny to think that the OP of this thread is probably now a college graduate working either a super duper, holy crap I’m the luckiest man on the Earth, or a dead end, meet you by the water cooler, office job lol.</p>
<p>He could be dead.</p>
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<p>wait, so is a 93/94 an A or a B?</p>
<p>Whoa, I don’t know where you guys live, but 93+ for an A is ridiculous, unless the class is really easy.</p>