How is this possible ?

[Moptometry]

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I have been told that some schools overlook the +/- on students' transcripts.😕 An A is not the same as an A- and a B is not the same as a B+. This basically means there is no difference between the person who got an A- and the other who got an A/A+??? I beg to differ........ This makes NO sense to me, at ALL. Is this true ?????

 

[blackhole2]

It would probably be better if you called the schools and asked them.

 

[nicmc]

I have been told that some schools overlook the +/- on students' transcripts.😕 An A is not the same as an A- and a B is not the same as a B+. This basically means there is no difference between the person who got an A- and the other who got an A/A+??? I beg to differ........ This makes NO sense to me, at ALL. Is this true ?????

For the schools I interviewed at, when they sat down to review the academic portion, my GPA was the same as on my college transcripts (my school is on the +/- system). I do not know about other schools. Although I wouldn't have a problem with them if they did because it really isn't fair for those of us who are on the +/- sx to get an A- for a 93 when someone who goes to another school without this system gets an A. To make an A, you have to get a 94 or higher at my institution, which is very challenging in tough courses. There is also no A+. So, I don't think it's really a crime if they want to standardize all of the little idiosyncrasies that differ between schools. You could make an A+ in a class, and I make an A, but you don't know that the grades are actually different because our grading systems are different.

 

[al074755]

Most schools go by the calculated GPA that is produced by OPTOMCAS, and they use the +/- in their calculations

 

[jc196]

From my experience, when uploading my grades to optomcas, I noticed they scaled down A+ to an A. All the other grades remained the same, ex b+ stayed b+. That's not true scaling! All optomcas did was ignore the a+..

That's the issue coming from universities that use a 4.3 gpa scale compared to the 4.0 scale. I agree it's a huge disadvantage.

I have been told that some schools overlook the +/- on students' transcripts.😕 An A is not the same as an A- and a B is not the same as a B+. This basically means there is no difference between the person who got an A- and the other who got an A/A+??? I beg to differ........ This makes NO sense to me, at ALL. Is this true ?????

 

[nc2tarheels]

that's because some schools give a 4.2 (roughly) for someone that gets an A+. That's probably the reason for the scaling down. Other then that, I've never heard of any opto schools playing this this. They mainly just look at the GPA and science GPA.

 

[Mewcakes]

OD schools don't do that because you have to standardize everyone's GPA. It's not fair to compare a student from a school that doesn't give out A+ to a student from a school that does. So logically the only thing you could do is scale down the A+. It's a matter of standardization, not a punishment. Even though you were given a 4.0 instead of a 4.3 for an A+, it doesn't matter because 4.0 is still the maximum points you can have.

So don't worry, your hard work will still shine through.

 

[Moptometry]

Ok cool. I was not too worried about my A+ mark as it is recorded as a 4.0 on my transcripts, I was mainly worried about the B+ issue which a 3.3 not a 3.0. Thanks for clarifying that