x/4.0 GPA or x/100 avg?

bandgeek05
Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:12:35 +0000

AUgirl, if a 99% is a 4.3 at your school, your school’s not on a 4 point scale. Also, I believe the word you were looking for is moot.

That said, I’d rather quartile rank be used as a measuring stick, because gpa is a dimensionless quantity until given the rest of your class as a reference point.
Example:

The median unweighted gpa at John Smith’s school is 3.7. John has a 3.3. John’s rank would only be in the top 75% of his class, not impressive at all.

At first glance John Lennon’s 3.01 is nothing spectacular. Then, we see that the median unweighted gpa at John’s school is a 1.3. Suddenly John’s a god.