Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:50
Subject: 4.0 gpa
At our school, there is no difference between a 90.0 and a 99.9. They do not assign a plus or a minus to the letter A. I believe all that matters is the final grade in the class, so if the student has a quarter with a B, that doesn’t impact the GPA unless the B was low enough to make the final grade below the A range.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:48
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is OP again - do schools not do A minus anymore? I would say I got all As in HS but my GPA was like 3.8, thanks to a few A minuses.
I posted above you. Yes- my kid had some A- quarter and semester grades--but pulled them up to As by Final grade.
This definitely matters -- what gets shown on the transcripts. There are HS that will report semester or even quarter grades on a transcript while others only report the final year grade. That was the saving grace for my DD with ADHD, her quarter grades bounced around a LOT but she was always able to pull it together to have at least a B on the transcript and As more often than not.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:47
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:This is OP again - do schools not do A minus anymore? I would say I got all As in HS but my GPA was like 3.8, thanks to a few A minuses.
We're in Montgomery County Public Schools and an 89.5 is an A, no A- grades given on the report card. Also, they "average" the two quarter grades to come up with a semester grade. If DC gets a B one quarter and an A one quarter, even if their "average" is an 86% or something like that, it becomes an A on their report grade. Total grade inflation.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:36
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone has 4.0 from public. Find some important ways in which to distinguish yourself.
No, they don't. A lot do have a weighted GPA >4.0 but that doesn't mean their unweighted is a 4.0. My kids' HS posted the "all As" and "A/B honor rolls" in the school hallway and that "All As" list was really not that long. And then you'd have to keep that up every quarter to have an uw 4.0.
Mine had 3.8uw/4.2w and 3.7uw/4.1w and had plenty of college options they were happy with.
Can you give examples of those college options?
Don’t do it PP! You’ll get cut down no matter how happy your kids are.
Huh? I’ve got a kid in that range…need ideas.
DP
My kid was in this range (3.7uw- 4.3w)
In at:
Penn State (6K merit)
Delaware (12K merit)
U of Iowa (9K merit)
Michigan state (15K merit)
Syracuse (no word yet on $$)
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:33
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:This is OP again - do schools not do A minus anymore? I would say I got all As in HS but my GPA was like 3.8, thanks to a few A minuses.
At our school an A- and A are calculated the same.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:32
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone has 4.0 from public. Find some important ways in which to distinguish yourself.
No, they don't. A lot do have a weighted GPA >4.0 but that doesn't mean their unweighted is a 4.0. My kids' HS posted the "all As" and "A/B honor rolls" in the school hallway and that "All As" list was really not that long. And then you'd have to keep that up every quarter to have an uw 4.0.
Mine had 3.8uw/4.2w and 3.7uw/4.1w and had plenty of college options they were happy with.
Can you give examples of those college options?
Don’t do it PP! You’ll get cut down no matter how happy your kids are.
Huh? I’ve got a kid in that range…need ideas.
Sorry. I’ve been on this site too long. I assumed some a$$hole would hear the list and say “I’d NEVAH let my genius go such a school!”
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:31
Subject: 4.0 gpa
I see a lot of high school transcripts and many do have a 4.0, or close to it, but not many students have full rigor. This will vary by school, but it holds at our high-achieving public in a large metro area.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:31
Subject: 4.0 gpa
On the CDS, some schools report weighted GPAs, so they look artificially high.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:30
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Straight As includes A- too, right?
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:30
Subject: Re:4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:I think UW matters more. My Senior has an UW 4.0--and he didn't have As every quarter or even at semester--but Final grades were all As. He got into some very selective schools(no hooks).
He is at a tough private (not the big 3, 5, etc). He was in AP/honors route. His weighted was a 4.39. He had 5s on every AP exam and near perfect ACT.
Just seeing classmates and friends--the UW 4.0 seemed to matter more than the 4.6-4.7s that some of his public school friends had, but with lower UW GPAS.
I think everyone has above 4.0Weighted GPA but a true 4.0 UW is much less common.
Yes uw is most important
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:30
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:This is OP again - do schools not do A minus anymore? I would say I got all As in HS but my GPA was like 3.8, thanks to a few A minuses.
I posted above you. Yes- my kid had some A- quarter and semester grades--but pulled them up to As by Final grade.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:29
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone has 4.0 from public. Find some important ways in which to distinguish yourself.
No, they don't. A lot do have a weighted GPA >4.0 but that doesn't mean their unweighted is a 4.0. My kids' HS posted the "all As" and "A/B honor rolls" in the school hallway and that "All As" list was really not that long. And then you'd have to keep that up every quarter to have an uw 4.0.
Mine had 3.8uw/4.2w and 3.7uw/4.1w and had plenty of college options they were happy with.
Can you give examples of those college options?
Don’t do it PP! You’ll get cut down no matter how happy your kids are.
Huh? I’ve got a kid in that range…need ideas.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:29
Subject: 4.0 gpa
This is OP again - do schools not do A minus anymore? I would say I got all As in HS but my GPA was like 3.8, thanks to a few A minuses.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:28
Subject: Re:4.0 gpa
I think UW matters more. My Senior has an UW 4.0--and he didn't have As every quarter or even at semester--but Final grades were all As. He got into some very selective schools(no hooks).
He is at a tough private (not the big 3, 5, etc). He was in AP/honors route. His weighted was a 4.39. He had 5s on every AP exam and near perfect ACT.
Just seeing classmates and friends--the UW 4.0 seemed to matter more than the 4.6-4.7s that some of his public school friends had, but with lower UW GPAS.
I think everyone has above 4.0Weighted GPA but a true 4.0 UW is much less common.
He is at a tough private (not the big 3, 5, etc). He was in AP/honors route. His weighted was a 4.39. He had 5s on every AP exam and near perfect ACT.
Just seeing classmates and friends--the UW 4.0 seemed to matter more than the 4.6-4.7s that some of his public school friends had, but with lower UW GPAS.
I think everyone has above 4.0Weighted GPA but a true 4.0 UW is much less common.
Anonymous
04/03/2024 12:27
Subject: 4.0 gpa
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Everyone has 4.0 from public. Find some important ways in which to distinguish yourself.
No, they don't. A lot do have a weighted GPA >4.0 but that doesn't mean their unweighted is a 4.0. My kids' HS posted the "all As" and "A/B honor rolls" in the school hallway and that "All As" list was really not that long. And then you'd have to keep that up every quarter to have an uw 4.0.
Mine had 3.8uw/4.2w and 3.7uw/4.1w and had plenty of college options they were happy with.
Our HS won't do all As list because it hurts some kids' feelings, apparently. There's a magnet program in the HS, and the all As students are mostly those magnet kids, probably.