<p>If i were to get an 86 average in total of all my grades, what would be my GPA.</p>
<p>By most scales, it would be 3.1</p>
<p>to do it correctly you need to convert each courses grade into a A,B, or C grade and then figure out an average … doing a straight converstion of an overall average can be quite misleading.</p>
<p>No, you can make the direct correspondence. The scale I was using puts a 95 as a 4.0, a 90 at 3.5 and 85 at 3.0. </p>
<p>So, 86=3.1</p>
<p>While conversion scales can vary, this is the system i’ve seen used most. It sounds like Manny’s school gives grades on a 100%. In this case, an A- is 90-92, A 93-95, A+ 96 and up, and similarly in the other letters.</p>
<p>I think it also depends on how the school would report it on the transcript. Our HS does not report letter grades; only the percentage, so if my child’s GPA were 86, I would call it a 3.1. To convert all their grades into letter grades doesn’t acknowledge the gradations (sorry for the pun) in our system and would give a misleading number, on its own and within the context of the school for class ranking purposes.</p>
<p>And, how the student falls within their own school rankings is more important than what the GPA itself is for most college admissions. This is why I paid no attention to what people said on CC about how good or bad someone’s GPA was, because I knew that at our school, a 3.5 for example, means something entirely different than it does at someone else’s school. At some schools, a 3.5 puts a student only in the top 50%, while at others, it’s only the top 10% of students who can achieve this grade.</p>
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<p>That is plain silly. You have to go class by class and control with your own school scale.</p>