AKittka

Hi, I go to a private college preparatory high school and our grading scale was very difficult since this past year and has recently been changed because the administrators thought it was a disadvantage to students applying to college. I've been surfing this site and seeing amazing GPAs (4.5+) and wondering how so many kids are getting these high GPAs and then many of them having mediocre SAT/ACT scores.. just curious i guess. Also honors courses are weighted +.5 and APs + 1 at my school.

I know a lot of kids are just very smart and work hard, but I also know the grading scales are very different across the country. Thanks.


Oh, and I have a 4.23 GPA, which is top 5-10% out of 285 students. (school doesn't give out class rank)

Old Grading Scale: (Rounding)
A - 93-100 (4)
B+ - 90-92 (3.5)
B - 85-89 (3)
C+ - 83-84 (2.5)
C - 77-82 (2)
D+ - 75-76 (1.5)
D - 70-74 (1)
F - 69 and below (0)

New Grading Scale: (Rounding not allowed)
A+ - 98-100 (4.3)
A - 93-100 (4)
A- - 90-92 (3.7)
B+ - 88-89 (3.3)
B - 85-87 (3)
B- - 82-84 (2.7)
C+ - 80-81 (2.3)
C - 77-79 (2)
C- - 74-76 (1.7)
D+ - 72-73 (1.3)
D - 70-71 (1)

AdamJaz

A 4 B 3 C 2 D 1 F 0

It is up to the teachers what they want their class scale to be. 99% of teachers have 90-100% = A, but I know my AP Euro teacher (who only gave a handful of As per semester) had 70-100% = A, 60-69% B etc....

AP Grades are given an extra point on the grading scale.

Honors are not weighted.

Flare12345neo

At mine:
A+=98-100
A=95-97
A-=92-94
B+=89-91
B=86-88
B-=83-85
C+=80-82
C=77-79
C-=74-76
D+=71-73
D=68-70
D-=65-67
F=65 and below

teenage_cliche

Similar to Flare's, with A+ being 97-100, A being 94-96, A- being 91-93, B+ being 87-90, etc...

No weighted.

AKittka

Well all your grading scales seem pretty difficult. Do you go to public/private school? And what is considered a "good" GPA at your school?.. just curious

Daniel12

At my school:

A => 4
B => 3
C => 2
D => 1
F => 0

+'s and -'s don't count toward GPA for us. Honors and APs are both given a full +1 on the grading scale, so it's no surprise that we have a (very small) handful of students in the 4.7-4.8 range. Most teachers use the standard scale (90-100 A, 80-90 B, etc. with +'s and -'s), but some use different systems.

I don't think it's really an advantage though. The school profile puts everything in context. I guess it might help with UC admissions (minus Berkeley and... was it Irvine?), where raw GPA is factored into the point system (as I understand it).

atrophicwhisper

At my school:

honors/AP A's => 5
regular A's, honors B's => 4
regular B's, honors C's => 3
regular C's => 2
regular and honors D's => 1
regular and honors F's => 0

That's for GPA calculation. The grading scale itself is pretty standard (90-100 A, 80-89 B, 70-79 C, 60-69 D, <60 F.) I go to a public high school in Arizona.

circumlocution2

mine is exactly the same as your new grading scale, AKittka- except we don't have an A+ extra weight category. Our honors classes are +.1 or +.2 and AP classes are +.3. I go to a private school. I guess a good GPA is a 4.0 or up, weighted. That's really subjective though.. Because the weights are pretty low, it's hard to get just a 4.4 (other kids on here have 4.9+)

roxxy

Honors
A = 93-100 (A+ = 97-100)
B = 85-92 (B+ = 88-92)
C = 77-84
etc.

It's on a 7-point scale.

theprez

A 94-100
B+ 90-93
B 84-89
80-83 C+
Not sure after that, except an F is below a 64.

APs are weighted +.5 if you take the test. Honors aren't weighted.

I didn't realize some schools weighted for honors.

phonyreal98

A 92.5-100 (4)
B 84.5-92.4 (3)
C 76.5-84.4 (2)
D 69.5-76.4 (1)
F 69.4 and below (0)

AP's are weighted +2 if you take the exam, +1 if you don't. Honors are weighted +1.

hoonose

A 80-100
B 70-79
C 60-69
D 50-59
F 49 and below

It's Ontario, so it's a slightly different marking scale. However, no one uses GPA, so it's all based on percentages anyways.

AKittka

Wow, I was not expecting such different grading scales. I didn't realize some schools didn't give out +/- grades or that the weights would be so different. I guess unweighted GPA is a better indicator of academic performance.

frutiaspice

A 4
B 3
C 2
D 1
F 0

Our school doesn't do weights or +/- but our counselors have in their database what our GPAs would be if they were weighted (add one point for each AP and Honors)

seclusion

A 94+ (4)
A- 90-93.9 (3.7)
B+ 87-89.9 (3.3)
B 94-86.9 (3.0)

etc.

Nothing is weighted...which makes rankings a total mess. The person who is taking "child development" and "woodshop" has the same ranking as someone who is juggling 5 APs. Ahhh...