So my school is really weird and an A- is considered a 3.75, an A is a 4.0 and a A+ is a 4.3. Last semester I got all As and I still ended up with an unweighted gpa of 3.85. It seems like at almost any other school I would have a 4.0. So will colleges know I have a weird grading scale?
Yes, if they read your high school’s profile
but do they really have time to do that?
How is that weird? My kids’ school doesn’t have A+. An A- is a 3.7. I thought that was normal.
Every other school in my state an A- to an A+ is a 4.0, all Bs are 3, Cs 2
^ I very much doubt every other school in your state only uses the flat 4/3/2 scale. Colleges are very familiar with a number of GPA scales. The one your school uses is among the more common.
A 3.7 for an A- is generous. Our HS gives an A- a 3.66 and there is no distinction between an A and an A+. I don’t think your schools is really that unusual, though.
It won’t matter if the college recalculates GPA or just holistically looks at your courses and grades, rather than using the GPA your high school reports.
At a highly selective college if your application is competitive enough to make the first cut they would pretty much need a profile to make sense out of GPA and class rank. If your in the top 10th percentile and 90 percent of students go onto college and take a number of AP tests and the school has 15 national merit finalists it means something
A lot of schools read the GPA differences and then recalculate GPA to a single standard, using the information your school provides on their scaling. I wouldn’t worry at all.
They do read the profile…my daughter did 2 years at a 1-100 school and 2 at an IB school (0-7) and they figured it out.