What GPAs do A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, and C- students have?

<p>What GPAs do A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, and C- students have? </p>

<p>I’m not sure I know what the GPAs of the above students are? </p>

<p>If a B student has a 3.0 GPA, would a B- student have a 2.75?</p>

<p>Would a C+ student have a 2.5-2.74?</p>

<p>Who has a 3.5 GPA?? A B+ student or an A- student? </p>

<p>What would a 3.25 GPA be?</p>

<p>Would a C- student have a sub 2.0 GPA?</p>

<p>Is there a chart somewhere?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for clearing this up for me. :)</p>

<p>At my sons school, an A- student would have a 3.66 and a B+ student would have a 3.33.
This gets a little confusing in between but rounding (always up according to my children and their friends!) seems to take care of it. It doesnt take much to pull an A average down and there may be another better way to do this, such as the number of As ,A-s, etc.</p>

<p>In general, I’ve seen charts that say A-=3.7, B+=3.3, B=3.0, B-=2.7, C+=2.3, C=2.0 and C-=1.7. But different schools can calculate these differently.</p>

<p>It depends on the high school and college. Some colleges recalculate for + and - for high school GPA, USC is an example. Some colleges do not recalculate, an A- is the same as an A+, the UC system for example.</p>

<p>^^the reason why your straight A student does not have below a UW 4.0 is because the “school doesnt show plus or minus on the transcript”…good for your son; unfortunate for the kid who is a “B+” or 88-89.5 student, if you know what I mean…</p>

<p>ALso means that your school probably has alot of kids with 4.0 or higher GPA’s, especially with the weighting you mentioned…if all A- are recorded as A’s…</p>

<p>Boy, none of this is consistent!</p>

<p>Thanks to everyone for their input. </p>

<p>Raise your hand if you think the nation needs to have a more standard grading system…including weighing. </p>

<p>::: hand raised :::</p>

<p>hand(s) raised and both my legs as well…</p>

<p>I agree that we are often comparing apples to oranges with these discussions. For example an unweighted 3.5+ average (4.5+ weighted) is easily top 10% of the class (though we don’t rank) in our district.</p>

<p>I really don’t think we can get a national standard in grading w/o violating the 10th Amendment. Since education is under the jurisdiction of the states and at least in my state there is additional District and school site control as well, grade interpretation is just going to vary. If you add to the mix privately controlled high schools that are not state affiliated and home or cyber schooled students it just becomes even more of a cumbersome process.</p>

<p>The colleges though seem to have come up with a workable solution by refiguing GPAs and taking into account school profiles on their end. It kind of stinks for the parent and student who wish they had a crystal ball to accurately predict admission but at least we know the disparity is being taken into account (albeit imperfectly) on the other end.</p>

<p>Oh boy - both hands raised enthusiastically! </p>

<p>It’s even more confusing for us because we have 100 pt system and weight multipliers (not point adds). So, a 100 really impacts our GPA, but in other schools, it is the same as a 94.</p>

<p>S2 has taken lots of AP’s and received solid B’s for the most part. School reported GPA is 99, but UW is 89, and academic only is around 85. Converted to 4.0 scale, this is a HUGE range! I cannot use any of the College Board GPA data to provide guidance to my son because its like comparing apples and tomatoes!!! And you cannot find out what sort of GPA the college is reporting to College Board.</p>

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<p>And in our district, my d has a 3.97 UW and a 4.2 W and isn’t in the top 10% (thank goodness we don’t rank!)</p>

<p>At S2’s school a single B (no + or - scores here) for one semester drops one out of the top 10%. The school ranks, but does not consider AP World History > Honors World History > World History (all three offered). Comparison within the school is impossible much less between schools.</p>

<p>I don’t understand why schools rank at all-- talk about comparing apples and tomatoes! At a tiny, rigorous college prep school that is hard to get into, someone in the 50th percentile might be a better (and better educated) student than someone in the top 5% of a school that sends very few kids to college and doesn’t have high standards.</p>

<p>My daughters’ school doesn’t rank, thank goodness, and hopefully that won’t be an issue when #2 applies for college (it wasn’t for #1). She’s a very good student in a challenging environment, all As and A-s, but there are plenty of girls who are well ahead of her. I’m sure she’s not top 10%, despite her achievements.</p>

<p>The problem with a standard grading scale is that every teacher and every school still grades differently. It is not possible to equalize everything.</p>

<p>When transcripts are sent to the colleges, a fact sheet is sent along with it (at least in our local HS). The sheet lists percentage of students who go on to college, all AP classes offered,grade scale used and what percentage of students (from the prior graduating class) are had GPA’s of A+ ( in this case, 4.3), A (4.0) etc. based on the school’s grade scale. I just looked at this on line today and noticed that the percentages total up to 75% and not 100% like they should. I don’t have a child currently in the HS (college freshman and 8th grade), but I feel as if I should point this out to the guidance department before they send this out and look like idiots.</p>

<p>Are these HS mostly private? Our state has a uniformed grading policy for the entire state. The policy also states at what GPA each level of honors is received. </p>

<p>For example a Spanish class average of 100 depends on the level.
College Prep -gpa 4.875
Honors - 5.375
AP/IB 5.875</p>

<p>The top students usually have around 5.6-5.7 since not all classes are offered as AP/IB</p>

<p>I’m missing something. How can any kid have more than a 5.0? I thought you got an extra point for an honors/AP/IB class, so a 4.0 in AP Euro is a 5.0. How can anyone have a 5.875?</p>

<p>standardized grade systems is worthless w/o standardized assessments. I mean it matters not if a A- is a 3.7 or a 3.67 or a 4.0 if a gazillion kids can earn that grade (due to grade inflation).</p>

<p>But to repond to the OP, our district follows UC guidelines and ignores plusses and minuses in gpa calculations. For example, an A- is a 4.0, a B+ is a 3.0.</p>

<p>All I can say is, I’m glad we have Naviance, because otherwise I wouldn’t have a clue on where to have my kids apply! It’s the only way I can make sense of how their GPAs might fit in any school’s admissions process.</p>

<p>Not sure which state y’all live in but here in the state of the Garden, there is no standardized grading/weighting system within the public school establishment…</p>

<p>On our campus the admission staff have access to a database the contains performance (college GPA, completion data etc) outcomes for all matriculants over a 15 year period. They can track our students based on the HS and in some cases by the students class rank. The database allows them to rank thousands of HS across the country. They data revealed that it was safe to admit students from the bottom 50% of the top HSs but it was risky admitting even the Val from the weakest HSs.</p>