Is there a standard way to compute GPA?

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<p>I suspect this is revisiting an old topic and apologize in advance. Is there a standard way to compute GPA? An A is four points; a B is 3 points–but what is a B+? 3.3 or 3.5? What is an A-? 3.5 or 3.8? or something else entirely?</p>

<p>TIA.</p>

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<p>Well, it’s a topic that has been discussed, but I’m not sure it will ever get old. My understanding is that, to put it mildly, there is no “standard” – schools that have these letter grades all do it there own way. And colleges, when evaluating HS transcripts, each have there own way of converting grades. S has a similar problem in that the school is on the 0-100 scale rather than 0.0-4.0 or F-A. GC basically said not to obsess over it, colleges know how to handle transcripts like ours based on their own history.</p>

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<p>Most schools send a high school profile with the transcripts so that the colleges know what sort of grading scale is used, and some will recalculate no matter what the high school does. Tennessee is trying to force uniformity of grading scales among systems in the state: this is supposed to make it fairer from school to school for the purposes of who gets lottery-funded scholarships. I think it still will have inherent inequities, but life seems to be like that.</p>

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<p>hoping-- many threads on this topic. Here’s one I started a while back:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56019[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=56019&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>as you have probably figured out, there is no one standard method.</p>