<p>Elitechance: I agree with you. I’m sure they would assume he was in the top 10%.</p>
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<p>Really? I’m confused here… Could you elaborate further?</p>
<p>Well…6 courses, all of them 91%, would mean all were A’s. Straight A’s is 4.0 GPA. You could also have a 90% or two, as long as they were balanced out by 92% grades, etc.</p>
<p>However, if your grades are all over the map - some high 90’s and some low to mid-80’s - then, yes, you would have a collection of A’s and B’s and hence a sub-4.0 GPA.</p>
<p>At dd’s school, one boy last year got a 4.0 for all 4 years and he was only the 4th to get this in the history of the school, since the 1920’s. That’s a tough school.</p>
<p>So…, if my overall average for grade 10 was 90% or above, I’d have a 4.0 GPA?</p>
<p>no… if all your courses were 90% or over depending on where you go</p>
<p>In my freshman year, these were my grades:</p>
<p>Social studies: 93%
Math: 95%
Science: 91%
English: 94%
Band: 94%
Religion: 94%
P.E.: 85%
French: 81%</p>
<p>In my sophomore year, these were my grades:</p>
<p>Social studies: 89%
Math: 89%
Science: 91%
English: 95%
Band: 93%
Jazz band: 93%
Religion: 85%
P.E.: 83%
Spanish: 92%</p>
<p>Currently, if the year ended right now, these would be my grades:</p>
<p>Social studies: 93%
Math: 91%
Chemistry: 92%
Physics: 92%
Band: 96%
Jazz Band: 95%
Media Arts: 94%
Religion: 93%
Spanish: 95%
English: 93%</p>
<p>If I attended your school, what would my GPA for each of my years work out to be? What would my overall be?</p>
<p>our school doens’t do GPAs so I wouldn’t know… being in Canada for canadian admissions you’d have a 4.0 gpa since they look at this year exclusively. in American I"m assuming they do it differently and GPA differently based on each school</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. Does anybody know how some American schools might do them? I’m particularly interested in LACs.</p>
<p>Manly lelite LAC’s would probably exclude PE and Band and maybe Religion. Since your lowest grades seem to be in these subjects, your’e looking pretty good. </p>
<p>Does your school consider 90-100% to be an A? Make sure your school specifies what range of per cents each letter grade falls within. It does vary and would make a difference. If, for example, A starts at 86 in your school or province, your GPA in terms of 4.0 would ook much stronger than if A started at 95. Just make sure you counselor indicates the range for each letter grade. You could produce your own cumulative GPA for them, based on this.</p>
<p>You look pretty good for about 3.9 to me if band and PE are excluded.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Sorry about the typo’s. If you keep up the strong grades you have so far this year and continue them first semester of your senior year, you will look pretty attractive. They like it when the trend is upward. You could come d… close to a 4.0 cumulative.</p>
<p>Again, just make sure your counseler states the per cent range for each letter grade. Ask that she/he put nothing (other than N/A in the cumulative GPA (not even a decile placement) slot in the form, since the school does not prepare anything on a cumulative basis. I’m sure the adcoms will assume it would be within the top decile. </p>
<p>Also, ask to see the School Profile. Hopefully it will state that it is a highly competitive school and one of the top in your province. Make sure your counseler indicates you have challenged yourself by taking the most rigorous program in the school.</p>
<p>Depending on your other merits (SAT scores, EC’s, essays, etc.), you look like a strong candidate.</p>
<p>My school is like that. I go to Boston Latin School, founded 1635. We don’t rank but we have this very prestigious award called “Franklin Medals”, given to the top seven scholars in our school. John Knox won it; so did Samuel Adams (i think). However, now, the seven “scholars” all receive 4.0 GPA’s. I get 3.9 and I’m probably just on the verge of being in the top 10%.</p>
<p>At my school, anything above 86% is counted as an A.</p>
<p>Chris ,you are making this harder than it is .If your school’s scale is 86-100 A, and you have 2 grades under that French, and Religion (which I will assume were both B’s) you have 10 of your 12 final grades so far as a 4 ,and 2 as a 3. 10 x 4=40 ,2x 3=6. 40+6 =46, 46 /12=3.833. If your junior year grades continue then you’ll have 6 more 4"s, for a total of 16x4=64 ,and your 2 x3 =6. 70/18=3.888. An A is an A. Whether that A is on a 95-100 scale or a 20-100 scale.It is whatever your school says it is. And before anyone says it isn’t fair,yes it is.</p>
<p>Now if a school is guilty of grade inflation ,that means their % of A’s is too high, not that their scale is too low. If a school were to have a scale of 86-100 A and 4% of the kids got A’s, that is NOT grade inflation. If on the other hand a school had 96-100 as an A , and 35 % of the students made A’s , that IS grade inflation. The vagaries of the system demand some clarification as to whether or not an A is one of 4% or one of 45%. That is why some schools rank. That is also why AP scores and SatII scores are considered important by colleges ,to verify content mastery on a nationally consistent scale.</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. I always thought my GPA was 3.6 because I just took my year’s average and measured it on a GPA scale.</p>
<p>curmudgeon you sure? A is at my school, province, probably most of Canada 85-100 and A- 80-84
A+ would be 90-100
B 70-79 etc.
F is 50 or less as per usual</p>
<p>My school does not really use any kind of +/- system except for C’s. But an A is from 86-100, B is 73-85, C+ is around 67-72, then I kind of lose track there.</p>
<p>Elitechance, I have to admit , I have never seen a scale like that before. Remember, your school profile goes with your transcript and theoretically that should explain the grading structure so the adcom can convert it. IMO the adcom would really look at class rank, AP’s,SAT II’s if they felt the grades were not “translateable”. I have asked this question specifically to adcoms at top 100 uni’s and LAC’s and have been told that it is done the way I showed but I have not specifically asked them about THAT particular grading scale. How do the grades break down by percentages? 10% A, 4% A? Any idea?</p>
<p>well I left out a lot of stuff like A would be 85-90, I dont relaly know the lower marks since I havne’t really recieved lower than 80 if that’s confusing you. But I"m surpirsed that . An 90+ is definetely in the top 10% of the graduating class. Probably closer to 5% when all courses are counted. In Ontario and pretty much Canada university considers top 6 courses which must include prerequists.</p>
<p>I think our marks are pretty legitimate since the class average is usually a B-. My marks in half my courses are 13% above class average so.</p>
<p>Must remind counsellor about profile. The last time anyone went to Ivy was Harvard around 8 years ago :p</p>