Is a 4.0 a 4.0?

gwnorth
Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:18:59 +0000

cgemaj:

Yup… my concern is how is this fair when going up again a student who is putting their grades in the self reported college grade thing and its an A for them. What if my daughter got 93 across the board. So hers would be B B B B versus another student who was A A A A

Numerical grading scales are arbitrary and non-standardized. Presumably what is standardized though is the quality of work designated by letter grades. So in that respect, regardless of the percentage grade attached, an A is an A and a B is a B. Your daughter’s work represented by a B should be equivalent to the work represented by a B at another school irrespective of the numerical grade attached (and the school she’s applying to must think that they are which is why they are requesting letter grades and not % grades).

To give another example where I live in Canada in our schools an A-=80%, an A=85% and an A+ is 90%+. That doesn’t mean that because an A is 85% here vs 94% at your daughter’s school that it’s easier to get an A here. The level of work represented by that A is the same. The grading scale is just different.