<p>I always thought that GPAs in college were the only ones based on this scale. However, I always see people on CC with GPAs on this scale. </p>
<p>How does it work?</p>
<p>I have a weighted GPA of 96.1 and an unweighted GPA of about 92. What would these convert to on the 4.0 scale?</p>
<p>Is their any kind of conversion chart for the 100 point scale to the 4.0 scale?</p>
<p>How does my GPA look for NYU Steinhardt?</p>
<p>These crazy GPA scales are why I am a strong believer in the importance of standardized tests. A 95/100 GPA at one school could be completely different than a 95/100 at another. I have looked at several articles about college applicants, such as the super-applicants article for NY mag. I noticed that the GPAs were so different at times, they were impossible to compare. I saw one kid with a 4.57 GPA, another with a 98.4, and another with a 97 who outperformed the 98.4 kid on the SAT by 400 points and the 4.57 kid by 200 points. If there were no standardized tests, colleges would just assume that the 97 GPA kid was the worst student of the three which is obviously not the case. </p>
<p>I just want some clarification with this 4.0 scale so I can compare other people’s GPAs to my own. If there was a universal GPA scale, perhaps no SAT would be needed. However, there isn’t, so that’s why we have the SAT.</p>
<p>Haha to me the 1-100 gpa is the “crazy GPA scale” (in your words)</p>
<p>The 4.0 scale is very simple.
A=4
B-3
C=2
D=1
F=well you know</p>
<p>As far as weighted grades(5.0 scale) an A is 5 points, a B 4 points and so on. You typically weight grades for AP classes and sometimes honors classes.</p>
<p>That clarifies things a bit, but I still think the 100 scale is better than the 4.0 scale, simply because I find it simple. It is merely a % of what you know. If you have an 80 average, you know 80% of the material. If the 4.0 scale is what you say it is, it would seem a bit unfair because if kid A has 89s in all his/her classes and kid B has 80s in all of his/her classes, both kids would have 3.0 GPAs. </p>
<p>This is how my school does the GPA:</p>
<p>Regular classes: What you get is what you get</p>
<p>Honors classes: Your grade in the class X 1.04 = your weighted average in the class</p>
<p>Scholar and AP classes: Your grade in the class X 1.06 = your weighted average in the class</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC: Your grade in the class X 1.08 = your weighted average in the class (it gets a generous weight because it is so hard).</p>
<p>ah i wish they did that with AP Calc BC for us. It was really annoying and bad for my rank that IB Math Studies, which was basically algebra 2 for seniors who couldnt get into IB Methods or AP BC and needed the IB diploma, was weighted the same as BC</p>
<p>I actually prefer the 4.0/5.0 scale. An A- is the same as an A or an A+. If it were reported as percents, colleges would know I <em>barely</em> pulled off an A in chem, etc. xD</p>
<p>you are totally right
That, and if schools do + and - A- is usually 3.8 and B+ is 3.3
So if you get straight 89s (B+) then you have a 3.3 GPA while if you get straight 90s then you get a 3.8 GPA.
This is partially the reason why my GPA is so bad as I have had so many 88.9s and 89.5s etc…</p>
<p>At our school an 89.5 is counted as an A
Maybe you should have bugged the teachers to bump up your grades…most teachers at my school do it, but then you lose brownie points.</p>
<p>but how can some people have gpa higher than 4.5 ???
my school, valedictorian gpa is 4.1 weighted and got in U Penn
salutatorian gpa is 4.09 or something weighted and got in harvard
and 4 people with 3.9 unweighted got in U penn as well
so how do u possibly can have gpa higher than 4.1 or 4.5 even?</p>
<p>At our school an AP class is counted as 6.0 and honors is 4.5, so if you get all As in all honors classes you get a 4.5 and if you get all As in all AP classes you get a 6.0. Of course no one takes all AP classes, so the max is somewhere around 5.something.</p>
<p>generally when your school gives your GPA on a 0-100 scale, you shouldn’t try to convert it to a 4.0 scale unless your school tells you what their scale would convert to.</p>
<p>where I went to high school, 90 was considered an “A” (even though we didn’t receive letter grades on our report card, just numbers) but in the public school in my home town, 94 was an “A”.</p>
<p>A (93-100)=4
B(85-92)=3
C=2
D=1
F=0
<em>i don’t really know the C,D,F numbers cause i don’t usually get those grades…</em>
then divide by the number of classes you have.
after you divide you add .17 for each honors/ap class that you take and you get your gpa.</p>
<p>so lets say you have 7 classes and you get all A’s that’s 4x7=28/7=4.0 then say they are all ap/honors and you have .17x7 +4.0= 5.19</p>
<p>i think the 4.0 scale is good, except in the case that some schools do the A is a 90-100, etc. or some schools do an a in 97-100. I know in many colleges you can get an 89 and still have an A-.</p>
<p>and also, usually when a transcript is sent those of us on the 4.0 scale the number grades get sent with it… so like if you got a B and it was a 91 they see that. I got an 83 in AP Chem last year and that would be like a B- in college… so thank god they see the number grades and not just letters and a GPA then we would all be screwed.</p>
<p>Ahh! I hate the 0-100 scale. It’s so…foreign!</p>
<p>Well, to whoever said the 80% meaning you know 80% of the material, etc., thats not true. You can make a lot of mistakes even if you KNEW 100% of the material, but end up getting a 90% because of a careless error, even though you knew all of the stuff in the class. Likewise, a person could get a 100% and only know 95% of stuff by doing extra credit. I don’t think grades/standardized tests are good indicators of intelligence…They’re just good indicators of hard-…workingness? After all, some of the most brilliant people in history sucked at school.</p>
<p>Which brings me back to GPA…I really like my schoo/district’s GPA system. As already said a A=4, B=3, etc. If you take an Honors or AP course, 1 is added to your grade, so an A=5, B=4, (and I think the bonus stops there…No 3s for C’s. [Hey that rhymes!..heh]) A 92 and up is an A for us, and there are no A-. A, A+. Its simple and thats the way I like it. </p>
<p>I see it more as of hiding those who barely made the level and those who achieved excellence…</p>
<p>When I first heard of the 4.0 GPA that my education system uses, I thought it was stupid…it would mean those those who got a 90 would be held in the same status as those who got 100, and those who got a 89 would be held in the same status as a person who got a 80. Doesn’t really matter seeing how there are decimals, usually in the hundredths place, for most GPA scores and that admission officers see your entire transcript.</p>
<p>And learning that some people get more than +1 GP in AP and Honors makes me feel better :)</p>
<p>If you use that 4.0 scale, how do you determine the valedictorian? If 1 kid has a 97s across the board in all his/her classes and another kid has 93s across the board in all his/her classes, wouldn’t these people both have 4.0 GPAs? So if you have 5 students like this, you could have a 5 way tie for valedictorian. With the 100 point system at my school, it makes the distinction between students a lot easier. There are 3 kids at the top of the class with very similar grades. In the first quarter of senior year, the three of them were separated by less than a point. As close as they are, you know who is the highest. </p>
<p>I still don’t see the sense of this 4.0 system. If this system was in place for football, think about this:</p>
<p>4.0 = NFL player
3.0 = college player
2.0 = high school player
1.0 = pee wee football player
0 = unathletic</p>
<p>This system is obviously flawed. Under this system, all NFL players, our “A” students, are getting the same rating. This would be mean that a superstar like LaDainian Tomlinson would be getting the same rating as a mediocre running back who just made the cut for his NFL team. This system would give Peyton and Eli Manning the same rating, when everyone knows that Peyton is clearly the better QB. I belive that if think of the 4.0 scale this way, you can see why it doesn’t make much sense.</p>
<p>The OP’s question is the main reason why most schools have profiles. If your school grades on a 100 point scale, this will be the scale that will be used to evaluate you. Don’t stress as there are probably more high schools that grade on a 100 point scale than those that grade using only letter grades. Don’t worry about trying to convert to a 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>In addition, I would suggest that you read the following:</p>
<p>NACAC’s 2006 Annual State of College Admission Report provides analysis of the combined results from the Admission Trends Survey and the Counseling Trends Survey. Based on surveys of school counselors and colleges and universities nationwide, NACAC provides this report to highlight issues of concern to college-bound students, their parents, and the educators who serve them. </p>
<p>according to the NACAC (national association of college admissions counselors):</p>
<p>Colleges and universities receive transcripts and GPA calculations from thousands of high schools, each of which may calculate GPAs differently.</p>
<p>Many high schools use a traditional 4-point scale to measure grade averages, others use weighted 4.5- or 5-point scales, while still others use grade scales that reach as high as 8 or 10.</p>
<p>To provide a standard comparison of grade point averages among applicants, some colleges recalculate grade point averages. Colleges
are virtually evenly split on the practice of recalculating GPAs—49 percent do and 51 percent do not. </p>
<p>High yield institutions are more likely than low yield institutions to recalculate GPA. (Basically more selective schools where if admitted the student is more likely to enroll will recalculate your GPA to a 4 point scale)</p>
<p>I still say that these various GPA scales mandate a standardized test. Even with recalculating, there is no sure fire way of comparing different GPA scales. No one has mentioned any kind of magical conversion scale that equates the GPAs from different schools. Just from some of these posts, you can see that an A is a 90 or above at some schools and a 94 or above at others. So a 91 would be a 4.0 in some places and a 3.0 at others. Standardized tests, although flawed, smooth out these differences since everyone is taking the same test. Until there is a universal GPA scale, standardized tests will be necessary in my opinion.</p>
<p>Look at this article and compare the GPAs of the students to their SAT scores:</p>
<p>If you were on an admissions committee at a selective university and you had to decide which students from the article you would admit and which you would reject, it would be a tough decision. Imagine what it would be like without the SAT scores for comparison purposes. Notice the difference in the GPAs.</p>
