Canadian grades?

[clanna]

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I heard from others that some dentistry schools put more weight to your grades if you went a Canadian college. For ex, a 80% for a grade will be converted to a GPA of 4 instead of a 3.7.

Anyone know?

 

[dackmonkey]

i've personally never heard of this. on the other hand, one of the interviewers at BU told me that they consider a 20 on the cDAT to equal a 21 on the aDAT and so on. don't know how much truth there is to that among other schools though.

 

[Motormouth]

There is not truth to that. I applied to the US thisyear and filling in the courses and your grades on the aadsas application all the grades were exactly translated the same way to the US standard,

I don't see why that would be any different. You might be asked to provide infor about the class averages median etc so that they can properly place that 80% within a normal curve.

A piece of advice is not to go by these things people hear, contact the school in question directly to get the rigth answer you are looking for.

 

[bkoh]

At UWO in Ontario, the transcripts are given out as A, B, C, D etc etc... so an A (80%) is translated into a 4.0. I put this on my application and aadsas confirmed it as so... Roam the boards a bit and you'll be able to find a chart.

 

[The Lion]

Yeah, its true for UWO that an A=80% which is converted to a 4.0 on the application process. However, getting a B will give 3.0 which totally sucks!

Anyways, I like UWO - best campus I've ever seen. 😀

 

[Motormouth]

At UWO in Ontario, the transcripts are given out as A, B, C, D etc etc... so an A (80%) is translated into a 4.0. I put this on my application and aadsas confirmed it as so... Roam the boards a bit and you'll be able to find a chart.

What !!! that is freakin lame!! I would have been a straight A student.... Unbelievable.....I guess not all Universities are created equal.

 

[bkoh]

What !!! that is freakin lame!! I would have been a straight A student.... Unbelievable.....I guess not all Universities are created equal.

Haha, good if you're an A student, terrible if you're a B student 😀

 

[Motormouth]

Haha, good if you're an A student, terrible if you're a B student 😀

word hahah, somebody always have to get the shaft, that's how the world turns...

 

[spshl k]

At UWO in Ontario, the transcripts are given out as A, B, C, D etc etc... so an A (80%) is translated into a 4.0. I put this on my application and aadsas confirmed it as so... Roam the boards a bit and you'll be able to find a chart.

My transcript is all in letter grades. How do letter grades get converted to percentages?

 

[bkoh]

I'm not sure how letters grades can be converted to percentages, however if you want to convert to GPA,
A+ = 4.0
A = 3.9
A- = 3.7
... so on so forth depending on your school