I totally agree with gibby #29. I was just posting a way for a student who wants to see whether his/her GPA is in the admissions ballpark on the 4.0 scale, if the grades on the transcript are in percents.
This could still be useful for AnthonyZ as well. With a 4.07 unweighted GPA listed by the school, he might like to see what that would correspond to in Yale’s terms, not to enter on the application, but for personal information.
Yale would probably view two applicants with 4.07 unweighted GPA’s slightly differently, depending on whether the applicant had a long string of A grades and occasional A+ grades, or a long string of A+ grades and an occasional C+. A student with 7 A+ grades and one C+ grade each year would actually have a 4.08 GPA, if A+ = 4.33 and C+ = 2.33. Yale might be totally happy with the latter way of achieving the average, but they might want to know where the C+'s came from. Also, if there is no bonus for an A+, but rather A+ = A = 4 in Yale’s GPA computation, then the first student has a 4.00 on the Yale scale, while the second student has a 3.79. (Yale College itself does not have grades of A+.)
If a student is comparing his/her record with the data reported by Yale, then it would sometimes be useful to run the long calculation.