<p>soo, i had my prelims and i did pretty well. but averaging A-, which is horrible b/c A- is 3.7 here. so basically it lowers your gpa compared to all other schools :/</p>
<p>a lot of schools give a 3.7 (or 3.66) for an A-.</p>
<p>Yea, what are you talking about? A-=3.7 at most schools.</p>
<p>If you are talking about schools that don't give +'s and -'s, then it evens out since B+'s will be 3.0's at those schools.</p>
<p>An A- is a 3.7 at Vandy as well... 3.3 for a B+, 3.0 for B, 2.7 for a B-, etc... Quit whining.</p>
<p>What exactly is the grading system here?</p>
<p>Off the top of my head:</p>
<p>A+=4.3, A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0, C-=1.7, D+=0.67...don't know D or D- and F is obviously a 0.0</p>
<p>Wouldn't D+ be a 1.3, D a 1.0, D- a 0.7?</p>
<p>yeah...something like that</p>
<p>like I said...it was off the top of the my head and I've been at work since 7:30 am :-)</p>
<p>The Law school, and some other schools, distribute the pluses and minuses evenly such that A- becomes 3.67, B+ becomes 3.33, etc. In any case, having +s and -s helps differentiate grades more evenly. </p>
<p>By the way, prelim grades are sometimes a poor predictor of your final grade, so don't be discouraged if you don't do as well as you would've liked. In one class I got a B on my first prelim but ended up with an A in the class. Likewise, in another, I literally got A+s on all of my prelims but bombed the final and got a B+ for the class.</p>
<p>Wow, American secondary schools ARE easy. There are so many people with 3.90 + GPA. In Canada, there are only like 1~5 people with 3.50+...</p>
<p>... you earn w/e gpa you get</p>
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<p>The underlying assumption of this statement is that GPA is objective, which is absolutely, fundamentally, untrue.</p>
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<p>We're talking about college grading, not secondary school.</p>
<p>My "gratuitous insult" was made based on this comment by Shifu Yoda:</p>
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<p>Apparently, there are only "~1-5" students with 3.5+ GPA's in Canada. Surely, he wouldn't just make up a ridiculous statistic with no basis in reality.</p>
<p>i think he's confused on collegiate grading in America v. secondary grading. Even so, it strongly depends on the high school, course work, and grading weight and methods.</p>
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<p>I agree. You kids need to learn to stop whining. It's not like your absolute grade matters, what with the median grade now posted on transcripts.</p>
<p>The next few years isn't going to be easy for anybody in this country. So *****ing about an A- to a random message board is really the height of pettiness.</p>
<p>Next thing you know everybody will start complaining about the whether even though the full well knew that Cornell was located in beautiful Upstate New York.</p>
<p>and their definition of "college" is different as well</p>
<p>D's school has no plus/minus grading. Scale is:</p>
<p>90-100 = 4.0
80-90 = 3.0
70-80= 2.0
60-70 = 1.0
<60 = 0</p>
<p>Great system if you hit 90 or above, but 89.99 gets you a 3.0 factored into your cumulative GPA -- not so great.</p>
<p>Do no high schools just report a straight average out of 100 anymore?</p>
<p>What percentage of classes at Cornell give out A+'s? Are they reserved for a certain number of people or for everyone who reaches a certain percentage? Do most/all intro classes give out A+'s?</p>