<p>My high school doesn’t report a B+ as a B, but rather B’s appear as B, B+, or B- on the transcript.</p>
<p>So a 4.0 is an A while an A- is a 3.7.</p>
<p>Is it common for schools to make grades so distinct? It gives me an disadvantage when it comes to GPAs.</p>
<p>My school does the same thing…and also does not weight AP or Honors courses despite being extremely difficult…</p>
<p>^I have the same ddeal with AP and honors too.</p>
<p>It sucks because I’m working my butt off but someone else who breezes through could have higher gpa’s than me.</p>
<p>well that is not common for schools. At my school it shows +s and -s, but an Straight A+s is a 4.0 and straight A-s is a 4.0.</p>
<p>It is not real disadvantage though cause they recalculate gpas and look at course difficulty. </p>
<p>Its not like harvard would reject someone just because they got got straight As, but there gpa was only 4.0 because their school didnt calculate weighted, even though u took a billion honors and Aps.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t make a distinction in GPA, but the +s and -s are reported – that is, for teachers who decided to report them; I’ve had A-s and A+s that were reported as simply 'A’s.</p>
<p>suprisingly many ppl completely loaded with all AP’s and honors still pull off a 100 perfect avg</p>
<p>At my school, any type of an A is an A. So, you could have all A-'s, but still have a 4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>my school has an A+, A, A- system. So to get a 4.33 (the highest), you have to get above a 97 in all your classes. It disadvantages me because it looks like I have a 4.00 out of 4.33, even though 4.33’s are really hard to get with my work load and the fact that my high school does not weight.</p>
<p>In order to get a 4.0 at my school you have to get a 96 or higher. A 95 is a 3.88, a 94 is a 3.75, and so on. I kind of like the system this way because people who get a 100 in a class deserve a higher GPA than someone receiving a 93.</p>
<p>For my school all A’s are 4.0, but no one really cares about that stupid system.</p>
<p>Everyone just sees their avg out of a 100, and ppl dont really care about the stupid 4.0 crap system.</p>
<p>mine is like sevitagens.
and it sucks. </p>
<p>my unwieghted GPA based on the school system is a 3.9/4.33
my unwieghted GPA based on a regular A+/A/A- = 4.0 system is a 3.9/4.0</p>
<p>meh, my school sucks. if you have a 90 average, your GPA would be 3.5…</p>
<p>At my school, A- (90-92) is a 3.7, an A (93-96) is a 4.0 and an A+ (97-100) is a 4.3. All of that is unweighted.</p>
<p>No A+'s, but A-'s are 3.7’s at my school.
And there’s no weighting of classes b.s. either.
I personally like it.</p>
<p>wow, this is ridiculous, I did not realize most schools did not distinguish between A A- and A+ for GPA. That makes me ever angrier at my school. You have to get an A+ for a 4.0, and of the senior class (of about 90 kids), we are lucky to have two kids within .5 of a 4.0, and yet we send tons of kids to top schools, so I don’t really know how much it matters.</p>
<p>At our school, if we didn’t have weighting and the differentiation between A-/A/A+, we’d have about a 15-way tie for valedictorian. In fact, this is the first year since the school was built in the '60’s that we’ve had a tie for any rank-- we have two salutatorians for the class of '08.</p>
<p>My high school didn’t have distinction for grades. An A- was worth the same as an A+. The only thing that was different was AP grades (A=5, B=4, etc.).</p>