Do Colleges ReCalculate GPA?

roxxy
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:31:16 +0000

Like if one kid who goes to a school where a 90-100 is an "A"has a academic transcript of A, A, A, A, A and you have an academic transcript of A, B (90), B (92), A, A, the other kid will have a higher recalculated grade (assuming that the class levels are equal and so any additional wieghting would be equal).



Waitwaitwait, but how is that fair???

If my school graded on 90-100 = A, I would have a 4.0 UW GPA! Instead, we have 93-100 = A. I can’t even count how many 92s I’ve gotten… argh. I should also add that the teachers at my school never give out extra credit and only very rarely curve.

How can colleges know that you did just as well as the straight-A student on a ten-point scale if your school that goes by the seven-point scale only reports letter grades (A, B, C, etc.)?