<p>I had an OK Christmas. I made presents for my family and I didn’t get anything, but hey, I didn’t need useless clutter anyways. I just threw out about 80% of my stuff since it was mostly junk that I was keeping for no good reason. There were things I wanted, but they’re too expensive/I don’t actually need them, so that’s fine with me. I wish I had my own money though. :(</p>
<p>I got four books and a cassette recorder. Cassettes! I feel like I haven’t seen any in years. I like it but I don’t know what I’ll use it for. When I was little I used to pretend I had a radio show.</p>
<p>Whoa whoa whoa whoa-hold on. I just got back and read some of the posts. Since when is a 90 an A? I have to get a 94 to get an A, 88 to get a B, 82 to get a C, and a 70 to get an D; otherwise, I fail (no worries there though). How do your grading systems work?</p>
<p>Varies among schools.</p>
<p>90-93: A- . 94-96: A. 97-100: A+</p>
<p>That’s how it goes in my school. Same scheme every 10 points, and you fail with a 69 (D+) or lower.</p>
<p>My Christmas wasn’t remarkable, but it wasn’t terrible. There was no Christmas spirit, and the excitement just wasn’t there this year. </p>
<p>My parents got me a NorthFace, but I don’t need a new jacket, so I wish that money had gone to a charity or something (I’m like Quidditch; I don’t like having a lot of stuff I don’t need, or a lot of stuff period, for that matter). I also got Bucky Balls, another jacket, pajamas, a bracelet, money, a cookbook (best friend), a shirt (best friend), and a stuffed manatee. Honestly, the manatee won. I made a status a couple months ago about how all I wanted for Christmas was a manatee (a live one), and my cousin saw it and told my aunt. Then we had this fight last night because she said, “YUP they are [ugly] and they don’t do nothing but get big and be UGLY.” I was so upset lmao.</p>
<p>My Christmas Eve was really good though! My mother and her fiance left for the evening, and I watched How to Train Your Dragon, Source Code, and Harry Potter 7.1 & 7.2 until 3 AM. I also taught myself how to make a grilled cheese (don’t judge, cooking is not something I can do), reconnected with an old friend, and made fun of my friend’s footie pajamas on FaceBook (seriously I had 3 pictures of people in them on my feed).</p>
<p>Grading scale at my school:</p>
<p>A = 94-100
B = 85-93
C = 74-84
D = 65-73
F = 0-64</p>
<p>Question for people whose schools consider 90% an A:
Does a 90% in a class affect your GPA differently than a 100%?</p>
<p>4.0 = 95+
That’s all I know for my school :/</p>
<p>A 90 is still considered a 4.0 like a 100, however, some clubs at our school require a certain numeric average, so then you would want a higher A, 94 or higher, than a 90.</p>
<p>I thought our grading system was pretty standard</p>
<p>A: 90-100
B: 80-89
C: 70-79
D: 60-69
F: 59-</p>
<p>My guidance counselor wasn’t even completely sure when I asked him (yeah, they know what they’re doing…), but he told me that a 94+ UW in my school is a 4.0. So, apparently that means that even though I had below a 94 freshman year, I still have a 4.0 because I received a ~97 UW last year.</p>
<p>If a 90% isn’t a 4.0, what’s the point of calling it an A?
My school doesn’t actually record percentages on our transcripts. It just says a letter grade. How do colleges compare people from schools with different grading scales?</p>
<p>I think the disparity between differing high schools is the reason so much is placed on class rank. That paints a better picture. In my school the grades are 90’s-A 80’s-B and so on. A 90-93 are an A- and a 100 is an A+, but every teacher is different. All 90’s equals a 4.0 in our GPA system, but my school doesn’t weight classes at all, so I don’t have a weighted GPA.</p>
<p>My school has what the same letter grading thing as RandomHSer and Brandewyn. (I.e. 90% and up is an A, 80% and up is a B, etc.) Some of my classes are harder so the teachers have different grading scales, but in general, it’s standard. </p>
<p>Similar to halcyonheather, my school doesn’t put percentages. But I guess since minuses and pluses don’t count in high school GPA, colleges don’t really care? I don’t know. But it’s still a 4 if it’s in the A-range, unweighted. </p>
<p>@lldm21: Hahaha, internet high five! Where I live is never cold, so if someone got me a northface jacket I would be surprised. Bucky balls are awesome. Except not when someone swallows them because then their intestines stick together because of the magnets and they have to go to the ER. </p>
<p>I’ve never seen a manatee before, but they’re related to elephants? I just remember someone mentioning that to me. A lot of people just think that they EAT but actually using what I know from bio class, they prevent eutrophication. But they’re endangered, right? That would be cool if the buying the stuffed animal went to some organization doing manatee rescuing or something. </p>
<p>Those are really awesome movies :)</p>
<p>@Quidditch: Connecticut doesn’t get that cold either… then again, I’m also that person that will walk outside in 20 or below with just a hoodie on. </p>
<p>That’s pretty cool… in an unfortunate way, haha.</p>
<p>“Scientists say that long ago, manatees used to live on the land and eat grass like elephants. Manatees have toenails just like an elephant too.”</p>
<p>I wasn’t aware that manatees (or elephants) have toenails. But yes, they are closely related to elephants, and they are also endangered. I think they’re incredibly cute, but, according to everyone else, I think a lot of “ugly” creatures are adorable -.-. Lol, one time I was in AP Chem, and I had 15 new text messages, so I said, “*** why do I suddenly have 15 texts?!” Turns out it was just my friend spamming me with manatee memes. My teacher didn’t even know what they were, so I showed her and she seemed fascinated :P.</p>
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<p>The things I would do for this grading scale. My GPA would be like a 3.6</p>
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<p>If I had this… I would have a 4.0 UW, and a 4.6 W</p>
<p>(My transcript says 97% so far but that’s weighted)</p>
<p>It sort of bothers me that (in theory) someone who got a 93% in every class at my school would have a 3.0 GPA, and someone at a different school could have a 4.0 unweighted with worse grades. And a college would likely not know the difference because both GPAs could be unweighted and percentages aren’t always recorded on transcripts.</p>
<p>^Well it depends on rigor of the schedule and does their grades match up with other factors (SAT, Essay, EC, Guidance Counselor report, Recc’s)</p>
<p>Someone with a 4.0 GPA and a 1600 SAT score is very suspicious compared to a 3.5 GPA with a 2300</p>
<p>Is it possible that maybe our classes are weighted differently? I have the 90=A scale, but in most of my classes, the majority of our grade is tests. Maybe 10-15% is other stuff. Maybe your classes put more weight on homework/projects so it’s easier to get a 94%? I could be totally wrong, but it does seem pretty unfair to me, so I feel like there should be some kind of reasoning behind it.</p>
<p>That’s why GPA isn’t the only thing that comes into play. You have AP exams, SAT/ACT scores, other standardized tests, et cetera, to distinguish academic prowess among students. Plus, schools have varying levels of rigor; it would be impossible to implement a grading standard among all schools that would be completely fair.</p>
<p>Because some schools inflate grades and some schools deflate grades adcoms must assume that not all GPA’s are created equal.</p>