<p>Scholarme, </p>
<p>I’m starting to learn that a 92 is a 92. My school could call it ZZZ, but it is going to be calculated to be a certain GPA by external forces. In my school a 90 is supposedly an “A”, when in reality it is treated as an A-. They just don’t share that with you until your senior year.</p>
<p>So, I did get my daughter’s estimated unweighted score from her advisor and it is 94.9. Her weighted score is 97.4. The school estimates that her 4.0 GPA is therefore 3.7UW and 4.0 weighted. That seems a pretty harsh scale, no?</p>
<p>You have to look at each class individually. Did she have any <90? That’s certainly a B so no 4.0.</p>
<p>No, none less than 90.</p>
<p>The lowest grade she has on her transcript is 91.<br>
9th grade: 93, 94, 95, 93.5, 95.5
10th grade: 95, 92.5, 94, 95.5, 97.5,
11th Grade: 97, 98, 96.5, 94.5,96, 91.5</p>
<p>The supposed letter grade equivalent her school uses is 90-100= A</p>
<p>It is late and I’m no math major, but this is how these would convert, I believe, on the two different scales (college Board/ Princeton Review):</p>
<p>9th grade CB 4 + 4 + 4 +4 +4
10th CB 4.0, 3.7, 4.0, 4.0, 4.0
11th CB 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 3.7</p>
<p>9th P 3.8, 3.9, 4.0, 3.8, 4.0
10th P 4.0, 3.7, 3.9, 4.0, 4.0
11th P 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 3.9, 4.0, 3.6</p>
<p>I think I’m just at the point where I am accepting that I will never make sense of this. The methodologies seem to be all over the place the more I search on the topic. </p>
<p>Your school’s methods do seem peculiar, but as OHMom2 says, precisely because no two schools seem to do it the same way, even setting aside weighting for difficulty, colleges that admit “holistically” will recalculate the GPA using the method and the courses that matter to them. What GPA does seem still to matter for is class rank, and I think even that is becoming less and less significant, since more schools don’t even record that–which I think is a good thing, for the very reasons you cite. One kid taking “college prep” courses and getting all A+s should not outrank another taking APs and getting As, IMHO, and trying to adjust for that kind of thing is both tedious and contentious. </p>
<p>Tricky question if looking at the CB table. Would a 96.7 round up to a 97, or round down to a 96? College Board would give a 97 an “A+”, a 96 an “A” (D has an unweighted 96.7, same as @laralei).
A+ 97-100 4.0 </p>
<p>A 93-96 4.0 </p>
<p>A- 90-92 3.7 </p>
<p>B+ 87-89 3.3 </p>
<p>B 83-86 3.0 </p>
<p>B- 80-82 2.7 </p>
<p>And just revisiting this topic after D received her ACT scores - it is very frustrating to try to use the college search mechanism provided by Naviance. D’s ACT scores were pleasantly high (especially as she had never even looked at an ACT exam before the day she opened the actual test) so I wanted to see if some ‘reaches’ had come more in range. The wild card is the GPA. If I input just a 10th of a point difference on the GPA then ‘matches’ go from 100% to 70 something%. Now I know this is a simplistic guide to begin with that considers only two data points, while the colleges themselves look at a broader range of indicators, it is still frustrating to not be able to have even this starting point. 3.8 means that things are looking up. 3.7 and she she is suddenly hugely overreaching. </p>