Colleges that recalculate high school GPAs as: "all forms of A are an A... all forms of B are a B..."?
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Anonymous
| I wonder this too. My kid has quite a few A- and I am wondering which schools have a policy to recalculate that as an A. |
Anonymous
Junior year grades are done. |
Anonymous
Oh well. There are plenty of colleges for B students. |
Anonymous
Thanks for you oh so helpful comment to high school juniors. |
Anonymous
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I think they should do this as so many high schools already do it. Our high school only lists full grades on the transcript and in addition some teachers only list full grades for their class. An 89.4 is a B, some teachers will round a 89.5 to 90.
Reporting percentages wouldn’t work either as our school district allows teachers to do whatever. One English teacher set 79% as an A. She grades lower as a 79 is an A. No idea why. Another English teacher graded on the normal 90 is an A, 80 is a B etc but in Canvas set it up as an 80 was an A, 60 was a B etc. She had nothing in her syllabus that this was the case, all six week report cards were based on this scale and she didn’t tell students until two weeks before the semester was over that the scale was different. Several kids got DS and failed that semester as they hadn’t turned in tons of her busy work because they thought they had a B. For the kids that failed, I think the guidance counselor stepped in and got the teacher to accept work after the break into the next semester so it wouldn’t impact graduation numbers. |
Anonymous
| ^^That's nutty. Don't most high schools have a standard grading system that applies to all classes/all teachers? |
Anonymous
A- means you’re an A student |
Anonymous
| I see so many people post here their kids have 4.0 UW GPA. Does it mean recalculated GPA that include some A- s or all As only? |
Anonymous
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It does not affect them at all when looked at with your ranking and comparison to other applicants from your HS, as well as the HS reputation. More importantly it does not matter when factoring in rigor.
Colleges do this because they believe it helps their analysis better. They do not want to “hurt” or “help” any applicants. They want to admit the best class. This practice doesn’t “hurt” any applicant, despite homespun logic that it does. |
Anonymous
Really?!!? What does B+ mean? |
Anonymous
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What about a high school that only does percentage grades? That is, an 89% in English and a 90% in Chemistry.
There was a PP who said 87.9% in her school = A. Well, does that mean that this kid gets 2 A's towards their calculated GPA or does it just get averaged out? |
Anonymous
B student, duh. |
Anonymous
They use the GPA their high school provides. My kid’s school calculates an A- as a 4.0 |
Anonymous
| Every university does this their own way. |
Anonymous
Many OOS flagships. Emory has a weird formula too. |