hazelorb

A course's grading scale is determined by the professor.

vistany

Ughhh.....that sounds like something the IB would do.

IhateCR

vistany - IMO, grades at FFX are quite inflated relative to UVa. lol it was so easy to get As back in my high school even for most AP classes. I'm from FFX too. I worked my @ss off this semester to get 2As, some A-, and a B hopefully.

I don't know if this is true, but my experience is that your unweighted high school GPA will drop about at least 0.3 in college grades.

vistany

IhateCR, I didn't mean UVa would be easy compared to high school. My friends who are third years told me it was tough to get an A. What I was saying is that FFX is not known for grade inflation as compared to other counties.

As you know the best GPA you can get, if you got straight A's (4.0)in 14 APs and 10 honors classes in FFX would be about a 4.3. That same GPA in Loudon for example would be much higher.

I'm sure you've read those chances threads that say, my gpa is 3.6 uw, but a 4.75 weighted. As you know we don't get that sort of boost and that is really what I was pointing to when I said grade inflation.

That's better than I expected. The little I know about suggests it would be even worse than that.

db123

For what it's worth, FFX county's grading scale:

A=100-94
B+=93-90
B=84-89
C=83-80

I'm not sure what it is near the bottom but I know this much lol.

Also, IhateCR, I think the school you go to also determines how easy it is to get an A. At the school I go to, AP teachers try to treat grades like a college course. As a result, most of my class grades consist only of quizzes, tests, papers, and the occasional project/presentation.(Which, I do believe, is similar to college grading.) They insist that since AP=intro college course, we should be graded like college students. I do have one teacher who gives the boosting homework grade but that's it. In my calc class, I had a 93.46 and she wouldn't round it. (I argued that it did round [because it totally does], because the 6 rounded the 4 up to a 5 which would make the grade a 93.5 which would round the whole thing up to a 94. when i told her that, she gave me a nasty look.) Anyway, it may have to do more with the school than the whole county. Just thought I would bring that up.

cavalier302

These grading scales you guys are discussing are irrelevant. Think about why. You can't worry about stoopid things when you come to UVa.

vistany

Sorry to disappoint. we have been worrying about "stoopid" things like getting into schools like UVa and Wharton for a while. It's hard to change channels.

db123

then find a remote.

vistany, I think you posted something with a similar attitude a few weeks back. (there's another used named vistene? (or something along those lines.) I always get the two of you confused.) but i'm going to echo what I said then: you need to stop overstressing. If you are going to cite that its AP week, it's no reason to get snappy. If you feel snappy, don't post.

If you don't change channels quickly, you are going to have a rough time first semester. I guarantee it. You seem to stress about minutia. From what I've noticed, you automatically go on the offensive when someone says anything along the lines of "don't worry." If you keep this up in college, you are going to lose many potential friends. And news flash: you are not the only one who worried about college admissions. millions (and if the number isn't that large, then hundreds of thousands) of seniors went through the same process. I am one of them. So I have no problem in telling you to chill out. You are not the only type A personality going to college but you need to tone it down. A lot. You are not the only person who applied to top notch schools and worked their butt off in high school to get to an amazing college like UVa.


In the big scheme of things, it is stupid (or "stoopid" as Cav put it which, btw, is playing with the meaning stupid. I'm pretty sure he did it intentionally.) High school grading scales shouldn't matter when you're going to college. Cav just pointed that out and he usually points out the obvious things that we all miss. it's just his style. Any of his responses are usually short and concise because he knows what he's talking about. He's a UVa student (and from what I've garnered, a pretty damn good one) and as a UVa student, he's sending a general message to potential UVa students that the minutia doesn't matter. Take the message for what its worth and move on.

You know, when I saw Cav's post, I laughed. I usually do. And I thank him for the advice that he's given for quite some time now. It's helped and put things into perspective. And if we could get him to change how he posts, I would strongly discourage him not to. It just wouldn't be Cav.

cavalier302

Think about it: what does a grading scale really mean? What does a grade really mean? Thise things vary from school to school and from class to class - something the Office of Admissions is aware. Whether your school gives an A for 93+ or 90+ is irrelevant. Did you know some countries have 20-point grading scales? Did you know that I've had classes at UVa with average and median grades in the 60 range. What do you think of that?

I don't know why so many highly intelligent kids on this site get so wrapped up with silly things. Perhaps it's because they lack the right kind of perspective. Why on earth does it matter if FCPS doesn't allow for the 4.5+ weighted GPAs? Why do people post their weighted GPAs when asking for chances? Admissions doesn't really care. That weighted GPA is only a tool used by your school to rank you among your peers, or in some cases, to standardize your performance in some other way.

Read this article on grades:

Grade (education) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Crazy, huh? Do you suppose that students from some of the systems described disadvantaged versus each other? No, they're not. Grades are meaningless outside of context and have no intrinsic, absolute value.