What are my chances for Yale?

hhchubbycheeks #10 has an inaccurate statement about how you would convert a percent GPA to a GPA on a 4.0 scale.

Your school may give grades that are percents, but also indicate the ranges that correspond to letter grades, e.g. 94-100 = A, 87-93 = B, 78-86 = C, 70-77 = D, below 70 = F (my high school’s scale). Or there may be a more generous scale, with lower cut-offs for A (90 and 93 are both fairly common). Or your school may assign 97-100 as A+ (or 98-100, or 99-100).

On a 4.0 scale, there is no bonus for an A+ grade, although your high school seems to have one, AnthonyZ, based on the unweighted GPA you have posted.

If your school has guidance on the percent ranges that correspond to specific grades, then you can convert the percents in each class to a letter grade, and then convert the letter grades to 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, and average them, taking into account the credit-based weighting when you are averaging, if some classes carry more credit than others. (But don’t include an extra weight for honors or AP classes). You should also eliminate phys ed and other classes of that ilk when calculating the GPA on a 4.0 scale.

If your school has percent ranges for A-, B+, . . . then you can make A- = 3.67, B+ = 3.33 (but A+ = 4.00) and then proceed as above.

With a percent GPA of 95.09, it is entirely possible that you have a 4.0 unweighted GPA on the 4.0 scale. That is, you might have scored above 94% in all of your classes.

There are no schools with which I am familiar that require 100% for an A. For one thing, that would be ridiculous! So the conversion suggested by hhchubbycheeks in #10, which would require an overall unweighted average of 100% for a 4.0 is way off.

Of course, with grade inflation and extra credit in high schools . . . but still it would be rare for a student to have 100% in every course, with no weighting for level.

If your school has no percent range to letter grade conversion suggested anywhere, you could compute an unweighted GPA on the 4.0 scale using one of the standard sets of ranges, to get an idea of where you actually stand. It would probably be better to use a more stringent conversion than an easier one.

Many schools may just take your school’s reported unweighted GPA on the 4.0+ scale.