<p>hey, i have a 93% average in a Canadian highschool, and was wondering what that, in terms of GPA, would be..? thanks in advance =)</p>
<p>By most standards 93 and above is an A so your unweighted would be a 4.0! Congratulations :)</p>
<p>i think thats only if he averages a 93% in every class in high school i believe...</p>
<p>here is the way that i was taught it. go through your freshman schedule, i'll make a mock one for your benifit (see below) alright now each grade is worth 4, 3, 2, or 1 point. Then take the average of all of those.</p>
<p>Biology---------95 -----4
Geometry-------87------3
English 9--------99------4
Spanish II-------75------2
German II-------99-------4
Public Speaking---85-----3</p>
<p>This average is 20/6 or a 3.33. That is your freshman gpa, even though your grade average is 90. This is why c's and d's can really hurt you. That is how my school does it anyway. Then once you have your 3 gpas (freshman sophomore junior) you can average them for your gpa going into the college admissions process.</p>
<p>93/100 x 4 = 3.72</p>
<p>^^^^but then you are assuming that a 97 in every class gets you only a 3.88 gpa...im pretty sure thats not right...</p>
<p>I agree w/ inter. The general system is like this:
In an AP class, any A=5 pts, B=4pts, C=3pts...
In an Honors class, any A=4.5 pts, B=3.5 pts, C=2.5 pts..
In an avg class, any 4/3/...</p>
<p>for nonweighted gpa, it's just 4/3/2/1/0 for everything.</p>
<p>note how there is essentially no difference between a 90.0% and 100.0% or 80.0% and 89.9% in GPA. To get an idea of your GPA, you can use the above method.</p>
<p>^ only some schools do that. Most take into account +/-, having 3.3 for B+, 3.6 for A-, and 4.3 for A+ (But the 4.3 is VERY RARELY USED - they don't care if it's an A+ normally)</p>
<p>I am in the Pre-IB Programme...so i'm guessing my weighted GPA will carry a significant boost?</p>
<p>GPA is meaningless since every system is different. I am assuming that you are just curious about your so called "GPA"; just use your class rank.</p>
<p>It could be 4.0, it could be 3.7, etc, quite meaningless</p>
<p>ok thank you =)...how would ivy leagues look upon a 93 % average? bad, mediocre, average, excellent?</p>
<p>I know friends using the Canadian system, and, yes, it is a percentage system. But to convert it, you just take the percentage x 1/25.</p>
<p>A 93% average is mediocre. People with 3.8/4 or 95%+ have a higher chance of getting in.</p>
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<p>That doesn't make sense. A person with a 93/100 overall could easily have a 3.8/4. 95%+ creates a possibility for a 4.0.</p>
<p>93% is not mediocre. In a rigorous program it would be satisfactory for having a shot at Ivys etc.</p>
<p>how about if i got a between 93 and 95 on my averages and im taking all regular classes except for my chemistry honor and math B honor in my sophomore year???</p>
<p>That's completely wrong about class rank. Take me for instance. I'm barely, if, in the top 10% of my class but I'm regarded as one of the most brilliant, academically succesful, and hardest workers in my class. Then again it's Unweighted Class Rank at my school with easy regular classes and rigorous AP classes, so it's a bit different.</p>
<p>Most colleges though, with the exception of a few such as Georgetown and UPenn, focus on GPA, taking rank into account as a secondary factor that isn't as important.</p>
<p>There's no direct way to convert, but you're most likely at least 3.4. The way to do it is to take the letter grades of each individual class and map them to numbers. Then, you average the numbers.</p>
<p>For example,
90-100 -> A -> 4.0
80-89 -> B -> 3.0
70-79 -> C -> 2.0
60-69 -> D -> 1.0
0-59 -> F -> 0.0</p>
<p>The weighted system is not standardized, so it differs depending on each school. Some give one point extra for each AP, IB, or Honors course. Others only give 0.6 points. It really depends on the school. For that reason, unweighted GPA tends to have much more leverage.</p>
<p>You can have a 90% and get a 4.0, while at the same time, a 93% can get you only 3.4.</p>
<p>93% average is actually very good in Canada. 80%+ is considered as an A and it's basically impossible to have 100% average(which is 4.0 according to some people) unless you get EVERYTHING right in every single tests, quizzes and assignments in the year. That means not making one single mistake on anything.</p>
<p>that is true ^^</p>
<p>Yeah it's kinda irrelevant anyway.. adcoms will compare you against other Canadian students, not Americans.</p>
<p>94% is a 4.0 in my school. So 3.8</p>
<p>1% difference in percent systerm can make a 0.2 point difference in GPA system?</p>