gpa help

[candent123]

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I go to a school that uses numeric percentage grading system (0%-100%). I did fairly well for all years averaging high 80s but in every year there's always one or two class that I bomb and get something like 60. And 60 translates to D- using my school's recommended conversion chart and it really hurts my average. So even though I get around 90s in most class, I figured I'd end up with overall GPA of something like 3.4 with AADSAS. I feel like I'm being ripped off with this conversion system. Would adcoms even care about it? Is there any way I can talk about it on my application?

 

[notin]

so what you're saying is that even though you get A's in a lot of your classes, you got D's in some of them and you feel like they're dragging your gpa down? what do you think you'd need to explain to adcoms about it.

 

[Zubnaya Feya]

I go to a school that uses numeric percentage grading system (0%-100%). I did fairly well for all years averaging high 80s but in every year there's always one or two class that I bomb and get something like 60. And 60 translates to D- using my school's recommended conversion chart and it really hurts my average. So even though I get around 90s in most class, I figured I'd end up with overall GPA of something like 3.4 with AADSAS. I feel like I'm being ripped off with this conversion system. Would adcoms even care about it? Is there any way I can talk about it on my application?

You are getting ripped off by yourself by getting Ds in some classes (1 or 2 a year is a lot). Talk to yourself about it 🙂. Adcoms would care that you rip yourself off and will not consider your application.

 

[Cleric7x9]

high 80s translates to a 3.3-3.4, NOT counting your D-'s. unfortunately, even two or three D-'s will bring that down to under a 3.0 since a 60% is like having a 0.7 GPA. this is probably not good enough to get into dental school without something else stellar on your application. you should probably consider doing grad work