GPA by school

[diasIItema]

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Question: If two schools use different GPA scales so that an A at one school is 95+, whereas an A at another school is 90+, do residency and specialty programs take this under consideration? For example, if an 87 is a 3.7 at one school and a 92 is a 3.7 at another, clearly the two 3.7's aren't equal.

The obvious answer to me would be yes. If so, how do they evenly weight GPA's? Clearly P/F is not in this conversation. Thanks!

 

[Muggsy Bogues]

Question: If two schools use different GPA scales so that an A at one school is 95+, whereas an A at another school is 90+, do residency and specialty programs take this under consideration? For example, if an 87 is a 3.7 at one school and a 92 is a 3.7 at another, clearly the two 3.7's aren't equal.

The obvious answer to me would be yes. If so, how do they evenly weight GPA's? Clearly P/F is not in this conversation. Thanks!

Class rank, bud. Class rank. The great equalizer. GPA doesn't matter.

 

[diasIItema]

Yeah, I figured. Class rank just doesn't seem like a great equalizer when 15 people could be separated by a matter of a couple 10ths of a GPA point over a long period of time. Seems pointless to me unless it gives some descriptive stats to go along with it.