Converting IB grades to 4 point GPA?

[Anonymous]

My kid goes to DCI. Anyone know how to calculate GPA for these IB grades? Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

DCI has a chart on the wall. Admin can send it to you. They’re very committed to their grading system though.

[Anonymous]

Not the OP, but I had asked the admins and got a very complicated answer, especially for middle school. If anyone has access to the chart, I'd love to see it.

[Anonymous]

I wound love to see this as well.

[Anonymous]

Following

[Anonymous]

Same here for Deal. The Walls folks said GPA matters. But we have IB

[Anonymous]

Basically it’s 5.0 for 6 or 7. 4.0 for a 5. 3.0 for a 4. 2.0 for a 3, 1.0 for a 2, 0 for a 1. At DCI.

[Anonymous]

IB MYP grades are very different from IB DP grades

[Anonymous]

No way is 6 or 7 a 5.0 on a 4.0 scale?!

[Anonymous]

I saw somewhere a 7.0 is above 4.0, but I think a 6.0 would be a 4.0.

Does DCPS give 0.5 for AP classes? Then all IB Diploma classes should be weighted as well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Basically it’s 5.0 for 6 or 7. 4.0 for a 5. 3.0 for a 4. 2.0 for a 3, 1.0 for a 2, 0 for a 1. At DCI.

That's for weighted GPA for high school. If you go by unweighted, 7 is a 4.0, 5 is a 3.0, and so forth.

For middle school I was told that "we do not calculate GPAs for middle school students."

[Anonymous]

Anyone who understands IB grading knows it doesn’t translate well to a traditional grading system. Colleges understand what the grades mean, but at the middle school level if you are looking at selective high schools or private, I would rely more on teacher recommendations to explain what the grade means. A 7 is above what would be considered an “A”, and a 5-6 is more closely associated with an A level of performance. It’s rubric-based, so it’s also hard to pin point the difference between a 3-4 or 5-6 for example since they are lumped together on the rubric. IB grading is by nature subjective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who understands IB grading knows it doesn’t translate well to a traditional grading system. Colleges understand what the grades mean, but at the middle school level if you are looking at selective high schools or private, I would rely more on teacher recommendations to explain what the grade means. A 7 is above what would be considered an “A”, and a 5-6 is more closely associated with an A level of performance. It’s rubric-based, so it’s also hard to pin point the difference between a 3-4 or 5-6 for example since they are lumped together on the rubric. IB grading is by nature subjective.

So how do kids apply to Walls?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who understands IB grading knows it doesn’t translate well to a traditional grading system. Colleges understand what the grades mean, but at the middle school level if you are looking at selective high schools or private, I would rely more on teacher recommendations to explain what the grade means. A 7 is above what would be considered an “A”, and a 5-6 is more closely associated with an A level of performance. It’s rubric-based, so it’s also hard to pin point the difference between a 3-4 or 5-6 for example since they are lumped together on the rubric. IB grading is by nature subjective.

So how do kids apply to Walls?

Maybe they can’t. Basis students ran into a similar problem last year, and I don’t think any special exceptions were made for them. I attended a Walls information session where a student asked about a similar issue, and the answer was “We have 10 applicants for every seat, so we don’t need to consider anyone’s particular circumstances.” Which was at least honest, I guess.

[Anonymous]

I have a kid at Walls who went to DCI for middle school. I bunch of kids applied and about 8 or so were either accepted or got off the wait list (that I know of) last year.

I don't know the exact conversation formula, but my kid confirmed that getting an A at a DCPS school is a lot easier (and much more common) than getting a 7/8 at DCI.

I'm wondering if that's why DCI does class rankings?