<p>The hs our son attended and the one I attended graded on the 0-100 scale which I like. On the school profile sent out to colleges the district recommends that they use the 90+, 80-89, and 70-79 to determine 4.0 scale gpa’s as our district has little if any grade inflation by choice. Using this scale our son’s 3.4+/- wgpa in academic classes placed him in the top 5% of his class and was significantly lower than his college gpa at RPI.</p>
<p>The 0-100 scale eliminates the problem of having a 1 point difference in numeric grade having a larger impact on gpa and it helps in maintaining a more objective class ranking insofar as the wgpa is used where honors/ap classes get a 5 and 10 point boost respectively. In addition ranking does not include gym and health, both non-academic classes which are graded on a S/U basis.</p>