<p>I would be very happy with your situation. Our gpas are equated similarly, but our grading scale is much more harsh and your gpa would be way lower than where it is now
A= 97-100
A-=93-96.9
B+=91-92.9
B=88-90.9
No AP weighing
3.7+3.3+3.3+3.3+3+2.7= a magnificent 3.22 if you got those grades at my school</p>
<p>To the point, I really don’t feel like you’ve been cheated.</p>
<p>Well then I feel bad for all of you guys.</p>
<p>I have no idea where you guys go to school, but at our school:</p>
<p>Any A = 4.0</p>
<p>lolol?</p>
<p>At the high school I just graduated from:</p>
<p>A: 92-100
B: 85-91
C: 75-84
D: 70-74
F: 69 and below</p>
<p>Our GPAs were calculated out of 100 (averaging the percentages of each of your classes minus gym, art, etc.), but anything higher than a 92 was equivalent to a 4.0. The rest of the letter grades were scaled, i.e. a 91 would be about a 3.8 or 3.9, and exactly an 85 would be a 3.0. An 84 would be about a 2.9, etc.</p>
<p>Doesn’t matter, colleges take you in context of your own school. It’s the same standards your peers are held to, so in the end, it really doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>As for “I could have tried less and would have received the same grade”, who’s fault is that? You could have tried less, and perhaps received the same grade. You could have tried more, and perhaps received a higher grade. Is there some sort of injustice just because you ‘tried harder’ you deserve a higher grade? </p>
<p>As you said, you could have gotten an 89.5, 89.5, 89.5, saved yourself some ‘work’ and received the same grade. So why didn’t you? You aimed for a higher grade and fell sort, the ‘ridiculous’ GPA calculation isn’t at fault here, you are.</p>
<p>My school puts 90-100 as an A but we have grade deflation. Not even our Val had a 4.0 UW.</p>
<p>Ours is similar to OP’s, except an A (90-92.9) would be a 3.67, not 3.7, and a B- would be a 2.67 and so forth. However, grading standards vary by department and teacher. I also heard somewhere that if you school reports your class rank, colleges look at that rather than your actual GPA. Could someone confirm this?</p>
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<p>…the top 2 kids have 4.0s?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the replies guys. I guess what I have learned from this is that I didn’t deserve the A and I did deserve the A-. Still, it seems kind of rough. Today was the last day of school and I received my EXACT grades today, which aggravated the situation: I got a 92.4 in Java Programming (A 92.5 would have been A 4.0) and I received a 92.3 in Math. I am not sure about the other A-. If colleges look at your grades in the context of your peers’ grades, then I am probably set, because I am most likely in the top 10% of my class because the only person who has a solid 4.0 is our val (It’s quite a competitive school; about half the class goes to to top schools). Oh and I was wrong about the GPA equivalent of an A-; an A- is a 3.67, not a 3.7.</p>
<p>^That seems kind of cruel… That’s probably 1 question wrong on any test throughout the year…</p>
<p>Until I came to this forum, I had no idea high schools even used 4.0 grading scales. My school uses 1-100, average of all your courses (except gym, and I think half year courses have half the weight). Your transcript shows your final grade in every class (yes, I have had a xx.9 round down), including regents, and both your weighted and unweighted average. I thought this was the norm, not the exception.</p>
<p>If you got a 92, you should have asked your teacher for a form of extra credit.</p>
<p>My school does the letter grade only system, looks to be the same as yours, anyways. I had an 86.3 in AP Euro this year and I knew that if I had an 87, it would be the difference between a B and a B+, so I asked my teacher for extra credit. Instead, all he did was raise my previous B+'s from 88’s to 89’s and presto, I had an 86.6, which he rounded up to an 87 for a B+.</p>
<p>What really, really annoys me is that I recalculated my GPA on the public school scale, just to make sure that I would receive the in-state scholarship… and under their guidlines, my GPA would be a 4.18. Under my school’s guidelines, I had a 3.43. That’s a HUGE difference and might have resulted in more scholarships for college, but oh well.</p>