<p>Sorry, but in my school we go on the 100 pt scale. I saw a chart that converted anything above like a 94 to 4.0. Wow, thats like 15% of my class. What do you get on your report cards in each class, just A, A-, B...? Theres no way to differentiate between a 99 avg and 96 avg? (assuming the school does not give A+'s) In my school, like most, theres at least 20 kids in that range.</p>
<p>Since it only takes around a 95 to get an A in a class, I'm sure tons of kids in each grade get straight As. What gives them these crazy GPA's? Just the amount of AP classes taken?</p>
<p>Thanks for clearing this up, the 4.0 scale has always confused. The limited amount of grades possible seems to make it hard to seperate the smart from the super smart in each grade.</p>
<p>Where I go, any grade in a class above 89.5 is an A. That gets 4 points. 79.5 to 89.5 is a B, which is 3 points, etc. Honors and AP classes get a "quality point" which means an A in an honors class gets 5 points. Lots of kids here get 4.0 unweighted, but class rank is determined by the weighted grade, so it's pretty much a race to see who can figure out how to fit in the most 5 point classes and the fewest required 4 point classes. Pretty stupid if you ask me...</p>
<p>So students that take all AP with a 98 avg and kids that take all AP with a 94 avg have the same rank? Wow. In my school dropping from a 97 to 96 avg lowers your rank by about 10 spots, but I still think thats better than everyone having the same rank.</p>
<p>Over 4 years, with different courses and credits, plus weighting on AP courses, we never have GPA ties at my school. Pluses and minuses are also different numbers (A+ = 4.2, A = 4.0, A- = 3.8). Since a 93-98% is an A at my school, I suppose logically you could consider anybody with an average in that range to have a 4.0, but in reality with all the other factors going into GPA (AP weighting, credits, +/-) there's never a problem.</p>