2PInZ

I live in northern VA (Loudoun County), and the school system here has:

A+ = 98-100 4.3
A = 93-97 4.0
B+ = 90-92 3.3
B = 85-89 3.0
C+ = 82-84 2.3
....

I was really upset when I moved here because almost everywhere I've lived, a B has been 80-89, and A 90-99, etc. How do colleges take this into consideration?

I've heard that colleges usually 'calculate' their own GPA's...im thinking one generic one off your letter grades...how can i do this at home? My school also added an extra .7 to your AP class's grades btw.

cavalier302

Your rank is more important than your actual GPA. It will be resistent to any marginal differences in grading scale.

hoganwan

I should move from Fairfax to Loudoun then... I have almost every class over 98... and I still get only 4..

cavalier302

It wouldn't make any difference, hoganwan. For one thing, grades are not static, consistent measures of performance. You wouldn't necessarily get the same grades. And your performance relative to your peers wouldn't necessarily be the same, either. This is why rank is such an important measure in admissions.

sciencenerd

2Pinz and Cavalier where do you guys live. I live in Loudoun County. Omg. This is so cool/strange.

cavalier302

I went to school in Fauquier county.

bo_bombers

Remember that form you gave your guidance counselor to fill out when you were applying to schools? Right, well that form gets a lot of information from your counselor. In this information there is a school "profile" where they list what % gets the notation of an A+ on your transcript, how grades are weighted, etc.
Admissions officers have been doing the application thing for a long time - don't think they're going to let different grading scales and weights at different schools blow their minds ...

2PInZ

i go to Stone Bridge High School in loudoun.

after hearing that rank matters a lot....another question: what is a good rank to have? as in percent wise....stretching from a 10%....because i have a 3.8 and im 5*/442 :/

cavalier302

A good rank to have is something that's at least top 10%. Are you trying to say that you're ranked in the 50's out of 442? That's going to make things tough for you. Is your "3.8" weighted or unweighted? If it's weighted, then it's not too good. If it's unweighted, and you're ranked in the 50's, then your school has massive grade inflation.

musings

hmm actually. I complain about that a lot T_T haha. but I honestly thought I had a low GPA and I still got into UVA Echols... and my GPA was 3.9 WEIGHTED... but my class "rank" was top 5% so...

wonwon

I know her ^ (the person above)
Same school xP


And, I am like the Top 2-3%