Canadian Grades to US grades?? *PLEASE HELP*

[steelnation23]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently in my first year at University of Windsor, and attained at 80.0% average for my first semester. According to the grading scale here in Canada (Uni of Windsor), my average is said to be an A- .. After doing some research online, I noticed that in the states that the grading scale is much different than here in Windsor. I'm just wondering how this all works when I want to submit an application for professional schools.. Do they convert Canadian grades to U.S. grades using some sort of mechanism? I have no clue how this all works, and some insight would be awesome.

Heres a link to the University of Windsor's grading scale :

http://www1.uwindsor.ca/advisingcentre/marking-scale

Thanks guys !!

---

Members don't see this ad.

 

[Aristen]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently in my first year at University of Windsor, and attained at 80.0% average for my first semester. According to the grading scale here in Canada (Uni of Windsor), my average is said to be an A- .. After doing some research online, I noticed that in the states that the grading scale is much different than here in Windsor. I'm just wondering how this all works when I want to submit an application for professional schools.. Do they convert Canadian grades to U.S. grades using some sort of mechanism? I have no clue how this all works, and some insight would be awesome.

Heres a link to the University of Windsor's grading scale :

http://www1.uwindsor.ca/advisingcentre/marking-scale

Thanks guys !!

As far as I know, no, there's no Canadian to U.S. conversion and the standardization process is the same for Canadians as it is for Americans. I don't think you'll actually know until you apply and see your standardized GPA.
I'm applying for next year's cycle and the GPA standardization worries because because my average at my Canadian University is an 89% (3.9 on our university's scale) but only 3.3 according to the optomcas scale ( https://portal.optomcas.org/applicants2013/faq/gpas.shtml ).

 

[whymisha]

Hey there, I applied from Canada with a 3.9 on my school's 4.5 GPA grading scale (for reference, 80% = A = 4.0) and optomcas gave me a 3.6 in their system, which is slightly higher than I was expecting. There isn't anyway to know really, they might treat Canadian grading scales differently

 

[steelnation23]

Hey there, I applied from Canada with a 3.9 on my school's 4.5 GPA grading scale (for reference, 80% = A = 4.0) and optomcas gave me a 3.6 in their system, which is slightly higher than I was expecting. There isn't anyway to know really, they might treat Canadian grading scales differently

Thank you very much, that is very helpful!