<p>In your school? What percent is it for each letter grade, and what's your cumulative gpa? For me, (also, what schools are you applying to?)</p>
<p>A: 88-100
B: 76-77
C: 65-66
D: 54-55
Fail: below 53</p>
<p>I'm applying to Yale and Princeton and harvard, and mcgills in Canada, and I obviously have a 4.00 on this scale unweighted. On the more difficult ones, that are 93+ for an A, I would have about a 3.9.</p>
<p>A: 90+
B: 80-89.99
C: 70-79.99
D: 60-69.99
F: >60</p>
<p>However, a few classes are curved with the thresholds 5% lower (AP Chem). In addition, for most AP classes a 5 will allow you to bump up one letter grade (I’ve done so in two classes =P).</p>
<p>Though I don’t see how this is relevant, I have 3.955 UW, 4.409 W, and am applying to Amherst ED and God-knows-where RD.</p>
<p>EDIT: Wait, where is there an 11 point gap between A and B in the OP?</p>
<p>A: 92-100
B: 83-91
C: 74-82
D: 65-73
F: 0-64</p>
<p>I have like a 3.5 unweighted right now, about 3.9 weighted. I’m applying to BU, Penn state, NU and lots of others eventually…</p>
<p>I’m not sure exactly of my schools grading system, as we use gpa, so please excuse any minor issues.</p>
<p>A 90+
B 80 - 89
C 70 - 79
D 65 - 69
F below 65</p>
<p>I hate you all. I would have straight A’s if we went by 10 point scale. As it is, I have a couple B’s.</p>
<p>A: 93-100
B:92-86
C:85-75
D:74-70
F:69 and below.</p>
<p>^ This is our local school’s grading. That’s why it’s important to also look at class rank and rigor of classes.</p>
<p>Yeah. We’re in the top 30 best public schools in the country, and I’ve taken a pretty rigorous courseload-- by the end of this year, I will have completed every science class my school has to offer. I finished off the math ones last year. <em>flexes nerd muscles</em></p>
<p>I’m hoping this and my decent standarized test scores I’m hoping will make up for the fact I have had one or two poor grades. I’m ranked maybe in the top 10%, but there are some people who slip through with A’s in a lot of easy honors classes who are ahead. :</p>
<p>I still dislike the grading scale very much. It doesn’t even make sense-- 7,6,10,4,70 for each letter going down.</p>
<p>ours is difficult, but regular:</p>
<p>100-93 (really a 92.5) A
92-85 (again, really a 84.5) B
84-77 (same deal) C
76-70 D
69 and below F</p>
<p>A 90+
B 80-89.99
C 70-79.99
D 60-69.99
F <60</p>
<p>I’m actually not positive about the D and F, and I’m not sure if there’s a 5 point or 10 point difference between them.</p>
<p>Wow, so when people say 4.00 gpa, their grades may be as low as 90%, to as high as 100? I was expecting it to be like 97 for an A.</p>
<p>98-100 A+
95-97 A
92-94 A-
89-91 B+
so on and so forth</p>
<p>So far i’ve been lucky enough to have had only the grade from the 98-100 category :)</p>
<p>No wonder everyone around here has a “4.0 GPA.”</p>
<p>100-97 = A+
96-93 = A
92-90 = A-
89-87 = B+
etc</p>
<p>So, someone at my school could have a 90% and have a 3.7 UW while at another school this 90% would yield a 4.0 UW. Heh.</p>
<p>^^ditto what they said…</p>
<p>Wow, an 88 is an A??!?!?! I feel sorry for those of you who have to get 95’s for an A</p>
<p>A = 93 and up (4.0)
A-= 90-92.99 (3.7)
B+= 87-89.99 (3.3)
B = 83-86.99 (3.0)
B-= 80-82.99 (2.7)
C+= 77-79.99 (2.3)
C = 73-76.99 (2.0)
C-= 70-72.99 (1.7)
D+ = 67- 69.99 (1.3)
D= 60- 66.99 (1.0)
F= 59.99 and below</p>
<p>S school has 98+ as A+, and they are common. It is foolish to look at his report card that says he has a 4.22 on a 4.0 scale (before weighting). Ends up with a 3.92 on the tranditional 4.0 scale, though would be lower with many of these scales.</p>
<p>For the first three years of my high school career,
A 90+
B 80 - 89
C 70 - 79
D 60 - 69
F below 60</p>
<p>This year ONLY (And years after for other students in my district)
A = 93 and up
A-= 90-92
B+= 87-89
B = 83-86
B-= 80-82
C+= 77-79
C = 73-76
C-= 70-72
D+ = 67- 69
D= 60- 66
E (because F is too mean)= 59 and lower</p>
<p>In HS it was like this for us:</p>
<p>80-100 A
65-79.99 B
50-64.99 C
0-49.99 D/E/F</p>
<p>In college:
80-100 A+ (High distinction)
70-79 A (distinction)
60-69 B (credit)
50-59 C (credit-pass)
0-49 F</p>
<p>“No wonder everyone around here has a “4.0 GPA.”” - this is a ridiculous statement.
It’s all relative - an A being 80-100% or 97-100% maybe due to the fact that the latter was more easily marked. Humanities for example, even in college, is very harshly marked where I come from - unless you’ve written something revolutionary, you’re not going to get any more than 85%. </p>
<p>But then again i could just be defensive about the fact that what I got in highschool could amount to a B- haha</p>
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<p>My son’s school had a 95% cutoff for an A 5 years back, when his brother was taking classes; since then they switched over to a typical college curve as they added more AP classes, where 90% is the cutoff for an A. It’s no easier to get an A these days, the teachers are more likely to take off a few random points on assignments that would have received full credit some years back.</p>
<p>In the end, no teacher can get away from having classes of 28-30 students where no one (or perhaps only one student) gets an A – the best students and their parents complain, and quite legitimately: there is a certain amount of arbitrariness in any given assignment. In college, when the teacher “misses” in appropriately explaining a lesson and the whole class does poorly, the results are often curved; in high school, when that happens and the best student in the class gets a low B on an assignment, no adjustments are made.</p>
<p>I have to get 95 for an A. A 98 for an A+:</p>
<p>98-100: A+
95-97: A
92-94: A-
89-91: B+
86-88: B
so on so forth</p>
<p>Pretty tough no? I have a 3.91 UW GPA. Hopefully, a 3.93 UW GPA at the end of first semester of this year (senior year) Not bah eh?</p>