Morning everyone,

I'm just curious about how schools don't have, for example, A+, A, A- etc...for B,C,D,E. Do they just use this as the scale, or do they look at the %'s too? (My school has % as my grades). I'm just wondering how people thought about this. I guess it would suck for people with all 90's to be stuck with people in the 80s. Does the admission committee look at each individual grade after? Kinda sucks for me since I have 2 C's and thats a 2.0 for some schools. Ow! So how does the committee look at this?

Morning everyone,

I'm just curious about how schools don't have, for example, A+, A, A- etc...for B,C,D,E. Do they just use this as the scale, or do they look at the %'s too? (My school has % as my grades). I'm just wondering how people thought about this. I guess it would suck for people with all 90's to be stuck with people in the 80s. Does the admission committee look at each individual grade after? Kinda sucks for me since I have 2 C's and thats a 2.0 for some schools. Ow! So how does the committee look at this?

A 93-100% C 73-76%
A- 90-92% C- 70-72%
B+ 87-89% D+ 68-69%
B 83-86% D 65-67%
B- 80-82% F below 65%
C+ 77-79%

A 93-100% C 73-76%
A- 90-92% C- 70-72%
B+ 87-89% D+ 68-69%
B 83-86% D 65-67%
B- 80-82% F below 65%
C+ 77-79%

Hey thanks for reply, but I was more wondering about schools that when you write the grades down, all they ask is whether it is an A, B, C, D. It doesn't differentiate between a +/-. I know my school has a different grading scale, than the one you pointed out though. :)

Hey thanks for reply, but I was more wondering about schools that when you write the grades down, all they ask is whether it is an A, B, C, D. It doesn't differentiate between a +/-. I know my school has a different grading scale, than the one you pointed out though. :)

with no +/-, just write down the letter if it fits into either range

ie. for B-, B, B+ (80-89), they would all be B

that's the scale that most people should use... of course you can sort of magically make your grades look better by changing the scale and saying you didn't know about it... (but i'm not so sure they'd be happy about that)

with no +/-, just write down the letter if it fits into either range

ie. for B-, B, B+ (80-89), they would all be B

that's the scale that most people should use... of course you can sort of magically make your grades look better by changing the scale and saying you didn't know about it... (but i'm not so sure they'd be happy about that)

Yep, well i'm from a Canadian school. The main reason why i made this topic was, because won't some people with lower marks have inflated GPAs? A 95% student will be similar to an 81% student average. You know what i mean? Thats what i'm wondering. :eek:

Yep, well i'm from a Canadian school. The main reason why i made this topic was, because won't some people with lower marks have inflated GPAs? A 95% student will be similar to an 81% student average. You know what i mean? Thats what i'm wondering. :eek:

yeah, i hear from canadian friends that alot of people try to inflate their grades when they apply to the US by setting 80 = A, which makes their GPA close to 4.0

it kind of looks suspicious nonetheless, but I think they'll recalculate it after if it looks bad...

The schools recalculate your GPA when they get your transcripts.