<p>There are no conversion charts. You report your GPA on a 100 point unweighted scale on the Common Application.</p>
<p>The average high school average for Quebec CEGEP students is ~75%; then again, it is a self-selecting group, especially since you have both pre-U and vocational streams. They get ~60% of high school graduates, and pre-U streams get ~60% of those guys. The vast majority of the CEGEP students were top-half in high school.</p>
<p>So, in essence, ~35% of high schoolers get to become pre-U students; pre-U CEGEP students are pretty much all what the Ivies see with respect to Quebec applicants. Thus, if one was top-25% in CEGEP, it’s likely to be the same as a top-10% from an American high school that is not Phillips Exeter-caliber.</p>
<p>Also I forgot to mention this, but my highschool is public but operates on an application basis.
It is a specialty sports school, for competitive athletes, (the school completely focuses on athletics instead of arts and music) but the minimum Averadge to stay enrolled in the school is 70% so if at years end someone’s Averadge is below 70% they will be illegible for re-application for the next year. So in other words the lowest achieving students are all in the low 70’s which raises the overall class Averadge and makes it harder to be in the top 10 percent or have an Averadge significantly higher than that of the class Averadge. Not sure if it makes a difference at all, but thought this information couldn’t hurt.</p>