<p>Actually, I just got a hold to our grading scale for gpa, it was in my school course book.</p>
<p>A+ = 4.3</p>
<p>A= 4.0</p>
<p>A-= 3.7</p>
<p>B+= 3.3</p>
<p>B= 3.0</p>
<p>B- = 2.7</p>
<p>I just don't see how they bounce from 3.3 to 3.7 from an B+ to an A-</p>
<p>Here's our other grading scale</p>
<p>94-100= A</p>
<p>87-93= B range</p>
<p>86-80= C Range</p>
<p>79-70= D Range</p>
<p>and you know the rest...</p>
<p>Talk about Grade Inflation in the US...In Canada, A is an 80-100, B is 70-79, C is 60-69 etc. The American system is ridiculous, how is it possible to have a 97% average and have 6 or 7 people ranked ahead of you? In Canada, you are lucky if you have 5 people in the 90's...An 85 average is damn good in Canada...</p>
<p>Visionary, you said it.</p>
<p>If I were to use Mr_Socrates06's scale, then there'd be like 1 student in my grade who will finish with an A average. In the U.S., at least from what I've learned from these boards, even someone with a 95% average can only boast about being in the top decile, as opposed to finishing first (like they would at my school). I know of two people who had a 96%+ at our school in the 3 years I've been there: one went to U of T, and the other went to MIT. </p>
<p>I'm not trying to be condescending, but how easy must the American curriculum be to warrant that kind of grade inflation? We all know that the grading system is not so steep because the majority of American high school students are so brilliant (not saying that they're all dumb, just saying that as an average, they are not tops in the world).</p>
<p>funny cuz my school actually doesnt keep gpa records so my counsellor gave me a 3.5 and the highest is then 3.5</p>
<p>I have a 95% average... I think there are probably ~5 people ahead or tied with that in my grade (I'm in the top 5ish somewhere anyways). The highest last year was 96... she's my stand partner in band (but in all regular classes other than English).
I'm from Canada too, and in the IB program... so this site makes me feel a bit stupid comparatively, even though I know it's because of grade inflation. There are just SO many people with perfect GPAs. Especially when their like... I'm perfect but can I get into Harvard?! We don't get weighted either...
I wrote the PSAT and you had to fill out a little bubble with your average. The GC monitoring the exam said just to put A (>90%) if you had over an 83-ish average here because of inflation.
What is with the American system?</p>
<p>I got my report card yesterday and I stand at a pretty 94%. I know two people with 96, and one other guy with 94. I don't think anyone has a 95. I don't know if it's a new school policy or anything, but I like the way they simply rounded the grades, instead of putting "93.23918373749029374%". That kind of nit-picking, I feel, is detrimental to the mental health of the student body.</p>
<p>"I just don't see how they bounce from 3.3 to 3.7 from an B+ to an A-"</p>
<p>Think of it as moving up 3 grades from a B to an A. Therefore, for each gap you jump, you gain about 1/3 of the points needed to make it all the way to the A. This is the way most colleges do it, but some take it to 2 decimal places and give 4, 3.66, 3.33, 3. Yours is just a rounded version of that.</p>
<p>you guys are gr8. I got 6B's in total so far :D out of 20 possible grades.. making my GPA 3.7. I take IGCSE so theres 10 subjects. Man.. 3.7 sounds pretty good but 3B's out of 10A's? What do you think of thta?</p>
<p>thank got there are canadians like us to keep the grade inflation down :)
i have like 80%ish and have a 4.1-4.2, but only 2 ppl out of 300+ have 90%+
but i rank top 7 at worst. but still,our counselors don't rank and thus we are at disadvantages</p>
<p>As of now, in my junior year I have somewhere around a 94-95%. My college classes that I receive "A"s in are only counted as 95% by my high school for some reason. Since there is no "A+" grades at the college, I would have thought they would be counted as 100%.</p>
<p>I believe that the highest grade in my class is a 97-98%. Not sure on that one though.</p>
<p>Yeah, in my school you can definitely not get a 97%. The highest GPA in my class right now is a 95% and the guy got into Harvard early action and apparently has the highest GPA in the school for the past 10 years. The second highest is between a 92 and 93%. I'm rocking an 89.8% right now and ranked 9th in the class. It's pretty sick considering that my school doesn't weigh classes differently. So the people ahead of me are mostly in non-honors and non-AP classes so they can get better grades. Kinda cheap but wtvr, hopefully I can still get in somewhere good with my current status.</p>
<p>97.7 uw (4th), 103.4 w (6th)
highest is probably over 98.5/~105</p>