Is This Grading System Brutal Or Fair?

Applying to College
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<p>In 7th and 8th Grade, due to no seperation between Regents and Honors, besides two classes (math and science), the median weighted average at my school was an 89.</p>

<p>When you hit 9th Grade, due to the seperation between Regents and Honors, and more weighting for the honors students, and a little bit easier work for the Regents students, the median weighted average is a 92.</p>

<p>So would this 4.0 scale be brutal or fair?
A LOT of kids in my class, despite class percentile or GPA, aspire to go to an Ivy League school.
(My school only puts weighted average on everything, so yeah.)</p>

<p>100=4.0
99=3.93
98=3.87
97=3.8
96=3.73
95=3.67
94=3.6
93=3.5
92=3.47
91=3.4
90=3.3
89=3.27
88=3.2
87=3.13
86=3.07
85=3.0
84=2.9
83=2.87
82=2.79</p>

<p>No one has an average lower than 82 at my school, so…</p>

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<p>It looks terrible. A superb 94 average is only 3.6?? 3.6 usually means two B’s a year.</p>

<p>But does the 82 floor mean that there’s huge grade inflation or everyone is just smarter than average?</p>

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<p>There is a lot of grade inflation. It’s a college prep school that doesn’t select everyone. However, our acceptance rate is more than 70%. A lot of the smartest kids in our area go here. </p>

<p>But I don’t know. At our school, the 82 average kid would have an ACT of around 17 and an SAT of 890 out of 1600. Out of a 2400 SAT, the kid would probably have a 1330.</p>

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<p>is this a middle school?</p>

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<p>This is why rank is way more important than GPA at most schools.</p>

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<p>It’s a junior high and senior high combined.</p>

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<p>We don’t have a rank really. Only the top 50% of the class can figure out their percentile due to the honor rolls. However, everyone below that doesn’t really know their class rank. Even with the honor rolls, students still have a hard time knowing what their percentile is.</p>

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<p>I’m so jealous! At my school, an 82 is a 2.3 :confused:
I wish our scale was this generous.</p>

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<p>On a side note, though, my school has a fairly easy classes. Yours sounds more difficult in other ways.</p>

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<p>Yikes, sounds brutal to me!! :&lt;/p>

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<p>Yeah, your grade scale rocks.</p>

<p>We have:</p>

<p>93-100: 4.0, which sounds great, but…</p>

<p>84-92: 3.0, which means if you work your a$$ off all semester to get a 93-94 and your exam kills you, this crap happens.
W T F???</p>

<p>73-83: 2.0, yeah…</p>

<p>And it goes from there…</p>