<p>We get +'s and -'s with out grades. A+ in regular classes is 4.3, A+ in Honors is 4.8, and A+ in AP is 5.3. Those each descend by .3 for each subsequently lower grade. I have a 4.4 cumulative after 3 years so far, and I was wondering how to convert that to the 4.0 scale. Does getting an A- or a B automatically lower a 4.0 on the regular scale?</p>
<p>My school has unweighted GPA. A=4.0, A-=3.7, B+=3.4, etc. No extra GPA for AP courses or honors courses. It's really really really stupid. What is worse is that class rank goes SOLELY by unweighted GPA at my school. That means that the top 10% are filled with kids who have taken maybe an AP or two at MOST along with maybe some honor courses.</p>
<p>^ Same here. I'm 2nd in my class (school gives no extra gpa for AP/honors) and have exhausted the AP curriculum at my school. I'm taking 5 AP classes right now. The person ahead of me is taking one. She's not taking a math or science class! (she dropped AP Calculus just so that she could keep her valedictorian status.) It's so dumb. Plus, behind in 3rd and 4th me are two people who are taking only one AP class: Statistics, by far the easiest AP class offered at my school. Pretty much all of the top 10% is filled with people not challenging themselves with rigorous coursework.</p>
<p>Tch, I'm against over 3000 kids, most IB kids who with their classes easily beat out us "regulars" -_-; I think I was 52 now?</p>
<p>no one has answered my question</p>
<p>the answer is, nobody knows. almost all schools do things differently</p>
<p>Well, in my school, the regular scale is that if even if you get straight A's that includes IB and AP classes, it's still a 4.0. With a B, it would go down to a 3.888. But our school doesn't run by -'s and +'s.</p>
<p>so I'm guessing when people get perfect unweighted 4.0's, they aren't usually on a +/- scale because getting a 93 or above for every class is much much harder than getting above a 90 for every class.</p>
<p>^ That's true in most cases.</p>
<p>people just get 100s in classes, no big deal</p>
<p>id say its a big deal if you get literally perfect grades in every single class you take for your entire high school career. thats pretty rare</p>
<p>haha, i was joking. ive gotten a 100 in like 3 classes or something, i only know 1 kid who has gotten 100s in almost every class, but he is also completely out of control. Bs are more common than not 'round these parts.</p>