Biotechie said:
If you get between 80-89 is that a 3.0 a 3.33 or a 3.67
I have never seen a chart like this. Like what is an 86 worth, and what grade is worth 4.33??
If you really want to know the real answer, you should call up the schools you want to apply to and ask them because each school might convert Canadian GPAs differently. I recently contacted UDM and the lady clarified a few things for me. I hope this is helpful.
The University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry
welcomes the application of any Canadian applicant.
*Yearly, the number of matriculating Canadian students
varies, depending upon the competitive nature of that
application pool. *In 2003, 19 Canadians entered our class
of 77 students. *In 2004, only 7 Canadians entered our
class of 78.
As for entering GPA, it has been around 3.54 for the past
two years and the scale conversion is as follows:
80-100 = 4.0 = A
70-80 *= 3.0 = B
60-70 *= 2.0 = C
50-60 *= 1.0 = D
below 50 = 0.0 or failing
GPA is calculated by average quality points (credits x
value/total credits). *A full year course at UWO is
equivalent to 6.0 credits and a half-year course is
equivalent to 3.0 credits.
This is pretty much what all the American schools are going by if you are graduating from a Canadian University. Also, a lot of the American schools require that you have a full year english credit. Coming from Ontario, all the schools I've talked to said that my ontario academic credit (OAC) in english was sufficient. My advice is that try to get your school to send you your transcripts with letter grades attached to it as well as percentages and then the conversion is much easier. And i think that DATs are weighted heavily for international students because this gives the admissions committee an idea of how our school system compares to theirs. So if you have a low GPA but an excellent DAT, they will adjust it accordingly.
