<p>At my school A= 4 B=3 C=2 D=1 (No points for + or -)
So with that, my GPA is a 3.94 un-weighted, and a 4.0 if you don't count freshman year. However, I would estimate that my grades are half A-s and half As.
If colleges do reweight GPA, do those A-s lower my GPA significantly?</p>
<p>If your school doesn’t acknowledge minuses or pluses, how can teachers give them?</p>
<p>In any case, from what you’ve said it would appear that an A- will appear on your transcript as a 4, so colleges will be unaware of the minus. In any case, some schools actually go to the trouble of recalculating a GPA, but many–probably most–do not. The likelihood is that an ad com will look over your transcript, see almost all As of some description, and be satisfied.</p>
<p>Do you have a class rank? It is hard to see how that could be determined if kids can only receive one of four grades: there must be a LOT of ties.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t rank but out of a class of around 700 I can safely assume in in the top 5-10%. As with ties I’m not sure but I know that it is notoriously hard to get straight As (or even A-s) at my school so at the top percentiles I guess ties aren’t really common.</p>