Scholarship Application Questions

Paying for College
1

I have two questions regarding filling out scholarship applications:

  1. If an application asks for grades on a 4.0 scale and a student receives grades on a 0-100 scale, how should GPA (of 95.6) be calculated?
  2. If the application asks for a specific class rank, and a school only releases deciles, how should the rank (top decile) be reported?
2

Recalculate the GPA with letter grades. You cannot do a simple conversion from the average percentile score.

3

@billscho, there’s no clear cut-off between an A and a B. We could guess that the cutoff is 90, but its rather arbitrary.

4

Tow options: cutoff at a 90 or cutoff at a 93. A 90 is to your benefit.

5

You should ask your GC. At the end, they will match that with your transcript. Your school may have their conversion chart.

6

My S had a 96 unweighted GPA that translated to a 3.8