<p>How is unweighted GPA calculated. Is it on a 4.0 system or a 4.33 system?</p>
<p>Usually 4.0</p>
<p>So how would it work? Is each grade given a GPA value (ex. 4.0 = 99, 3.9 = 98, 3.8 = 97, etc.) or would you take your grades out of 100% and multiply them by 4.0 (ex. 90% x 4.0 = 3.6)?</p>
<p>I have the same question, i am wondering if a 4.0 is 90-100 or 93-100, bc. in my state, an A is a 93, but it seems like most colleges use 90 as the A barrier.</p>
<p>Most colleges will compute grade averages simply based upon the way your high school does. </p>
<p>In some cases they will take the raw scores, for example a 93, a 95, and a 87--then add all these up and compute your average based upon that. In this case, they will use the plus/minus grades based upon something like the following:</p>
<p>83-87--B (3.0)
88-89--B+ (3.3)
90-93--A- (3.7)
94-97--A (4.0)
98-99--A+ (but still only 4.0)
So if you had the scores above (93, 95, and 87), adding these gives a 275 total, divided by 3 is a 91.67 average, or a 3.7 average.</p>
<p>If you had grades assigned, you would have gotten an A, A-, and B+ (if your school did plus and minus grading) which would be a 4.0, 3.7, and 3.3 for a total of 11 and an average of 3.67. Without plus and minus grading your scores would be A, A, and B--also adding to 11 grade points and still an average of 3.67.</p>