How does the 4.0 GPA scale work?

phatphysicist
Sat, 07 Jan 2017 01:26:48 +0000

I am a high school senior who has a 101.11 weighted GPA and a 96.49 unweighted GPA. When I applied to scholarships, many asked me for only my unweighted GPA. At first glance, I thought I had to convert the 96.49 by setting up a proportion and finding the exact value (which is about 3.86). But then I looked at some conversion tables to be sure and I found that anywhere from a 93-100 GPA (A - A+) is a 4.0. Is this true? Also, why is there a huge gap in the scale where a 90-92 is an A- and a 3.7 GPA?