My school does GPAs in a different way. The actual 4 marking period grades are added together and doubled, then the final exam grade is added, then this is divided by 9 to produce your final grade in the class as a percentage. i.e. all the marking periods are weighted equally, and the final exam is weighted as half a marking period.
For 9th and 10th grades, this number was then multiplied by the weight - 1.04 or 1.08 for various honors courses. The final weighted grades were then multiplied by the number of credits the course is worth and all added together. This final total was divided by the number of credits to produce your GPA.
For 11th grade, and for next year, only AP courses are weighted, and only as 1.05 (they were 1.12 before).
This produces a GPA that is mixed weighted and nonweighted and is on a scale of 100. Colleges will probably just look at the course grades, which are listed unweighted on the transcripts, and compute their own GPA. But I’m stuck looking at statistics based on a 4.0 scale when all I know is my GPA on the 100 scale - approximately 96.5. How can I convert this 100-scale GPA to a rough number on a 4 scale that I can use to get a ballpark idea of my chances at schools? Is this possible?
<p>I don’t know about your weighting system, but if you want to do unweighted, take your unweighted averages, and give yourself 4 for every A, 3 for a B, etc. If you want to do plusses and minuses, do the 3.67, 3.33, etc. Divide by total number of courses.</p>
<p>What would the numerical equivelants of A+, A, A-, and B+ be? My school does not have letter grades, but I guess if I do this with my unweighted grades I will be looking at my “unweighted GPA” the same way colleges are likely to.</p>
<p>There are a few different unweighted 4.0 scales: the most commonly used one does not take into account whether it was a + or -
A, A-, and A+ are all worth the same: 4.0
B, B-, B+ = 3.0
C, C-, C+ = 2.0
D, D-, D+ = 1.0
F = 0.0</p>
<p>In some school districts/schools where there are no minus grades (such as B-), this is used:
any A = 4.0
B+ = 3.5
B = 3.0
C+ = 2.5
C = 2.0
D+ = 1.5
D = 1.0
F = 0.0</p>
<p>And there are even more scales than that, some schools have their own 4.0 conversion system where every numerical grade has an equivalent 4.0 scale GPA.
like 100 = 4.0
99= 3.98
98=3.95
etc…</p>
<p>So there is no uniform standard, but the most commonly used one is the first one I mentioned.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t do GPA at all, so I’ve been calculating mine myself all along. This is what is on princetonreview.com:</p>
<p>GPA Conversion Chart:
4.0 95-100 A
3.9 94 A
3.8 93 A
3.7 92 A
3.6 91 A
3.5 90 A
3.4 89 B
3.3 88 B
3.2 87 B
3.1 86 B
3.0 85 B
2.9 84 B
2.8 83 B
2.7 82 B
2.6 81 B
2.5 80 B
2.4 79 C
2.3 78 C
2.2 77 C
2.1 76 C
2.0 75 C
1.9 74 C
1.8 73 C
1.7 72 C
1.6 71 C
1.5 70 C</p>