<p>93-100 A
85-92 B
76-84 C
70-74 D
below 70 F</p>
<p>I have a 3.725 average with a 3.825 weighted average, but, it makes me mad when I see other schools with 90-80-70-60 scales because I could get the same percent grade as another student but get a different letter grade. In fact, looking at my percents (which I have all saved even though my transcript simply shows A, B, C with no + or -) My 12 Bs would ALL be As and my one C would be a B. Put those with my 40 As and I’d have a 3.981 GPA and a 4.056 weighted. It just doesn’t seem to be far that other students can do the exact same work I do and get a GPA that much higher.</p>
<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>
<p>My school uses something similar now. We go from 0-8, so it’s a little more specific (the equivalent of this would be, from bottom to top, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, with 1, 3, 5, 7 in between)</p>
<p>It narrows the ranges down a little, and makes calculating our GPA a little more precise.</p>
<p>My elementary school used a scale like this except 1 was good and 4 was bad. I don’t see any reason to bring it into high school or even middle school for that matter.</p>
<p>Our system does not seem extremely fair, either. The cut-off is 89.5 for an A which is .5 of a pt. on that gpa. My daughter told me she has an 89.4. I would think a teacher could give the tenth of a pt. but all of their grades are submitted weekly and averaged by computer, so the teacher cannot go and just “give” anything, although she probably understands that the system is not as fair as it could be if they added +/- grades.</p>
<p>Don’t the adcoms know what system they are working with to make it a little more fair? Do you think they take that into consideration as well as the size, rigor, reputation of a HS?</p>
<p>The K-3 kids (at least when I was in that grade… idk what they do now) have a system S G I N… S is above-average, G is average, I is needs improvement, and N pretty much means you suck. lol. 4-5 gets A, B, C, D, F without pluses or minuses. Middle schoolers and high schoolers get a 93-100 based numeric scale, which transfers to the A+/- system. We also have effort, conduct, and homework grades… which used to be 1-3… 1 being the best and 3 being the worst… now we have 4-1, as mentioned in the article. Most teachers give 4s for people that show up and do the work… some -only- give 3s. Luckily, no one pays attention to the E-C-H system.
Our GPA is based from our A+/- grades with honor roll weighting only for honors/AP classes.</p>
<p>A standards based grading system is not the same as A=4, B=3, etc. It is entirely different. A 4 is exceeds standards, and a 3 is at standard, and my daughter’s teacher last year interpreted a 4 as going beyond what was taught. Under her view, a 100% in math was still a 3. It was almost impossible to get 4, and this was in a gifted program!</p>
<p>We the students become fixated on the highest grade, no matter whether it’s a 4 or an A or a an S or an E, whatever. We see A’s on TV so we all still know what it means. When I left my elementary school and went to high school, I expected to get all As even though, coming from a Montessori school where I received E, S, or U and the main concentration was on the teacher’s written review, I had never seen an A on a report card in my life.
Number systems and letter systems are all the same. We all know what it really means.</p>