Percentage to letter grades equivalent?

[Jarteblu]

What are the % that are equivalent to each letter grade.
In HS it was 100%-90%=A
90-85=B etc.
What are they in college or at your college specifically?

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[aalamruad]

98+ = A+
93 (sometimes 94) - 97.99 = A
90 - 92.99 (sometimes 93.99) = A-
88-89.99 = B+
83 - 87.99 = B
80 - 82.99 = B-

 

[NeuResurgens]

They're different everywhere. My classes all had +/- with the letter grades, as well as a simple letter option, but we didn't have any A+ (A was the highest). Most of my biology classes had 93-100 = A, 90-93 = A-, 87-90 = B+, 83-87 = B, 80-83 = B-, etc. The curved classes had no such thing and it was something like the top 10% got an A, next 10% got an A-, something of that nature.

 

[Jarteblu]

I would imagine the A-'s screw people over backwards😆

 

[Frogger27]

I would imagine the A-'s screw people over backwards😆

No, B+ screw people over.. I had so many f******* 89's in undergrad

 

[aldol16]

I would imagine the A-'s screw people over backwards😆

No, B+ screw people over.. I had so many f******* 89's in undergrad

It's the grade point difference between these two GPAs that screw people over. A to A- is a 0.3 drop. A- to B+ is a 0.4 drop. So even though the difference is equal on an absolute scale (3 percentage points or so), the A- to B+ transition hurts a lot more in grade point terms. Many pre-meds complain to me about getting B+'s rather than A-'s and try to ask for more points because it'll put them over to an A-. Fewer people argue for an A from an A- or a B+ from a B.

 

[mistafab]

This should be on your syllabus on a per-class basis.

What are the % that are equivalent to each letter grade.
In HS it was 100%-90%=A
90-85=B etc.
What are they in college or at your college specifically?

 

[efle]

I should add to the replies above that raw percentage grading (eg 46/50 = 92% = A-) is ubiquitous in high school but a lot less common in university BCPM departments. I'd say the majority of classes I was in had a curve so the cutoffs were all over the place depending on how hard that particular exam was for the class (eg 38/50 = 76, but the median was 66 so it ends up a B+)

 

[applesaucey]

My school doesn't have minuses. The scale is A (90-100), B+ (85-89), B (80-85), C+ (75-79), and so on. However, some professors don't like the distribution and change the grading scale, so I've had a few classes where B+ ran all the way up to a 93 and then 94-100 was an A.

 

[efle]

My school doesn't have minuses. The scale is A (90-100), B+ (85-89), B (80-85), C+ (75-79)

Wow that is the most advantageous grading scale I've ever seen, assuming AMCAS gets to see only the grades not the percents. That comes out to something like a free +0.3 to your GPA in 50% of the grades (for example an 80-82 and 85-88 are both getting boosted compared to traditional scale)

 

[TrachCareIsFun]

This should be on your syllabus on a per-class basis.

This. Its up to the professor at my school but is generally stated in the syllabus. I've had classes where you need a 93% to get an A and others where a 40% was a high B.

 

[studentdoctorpremed]

Ya, every school is a bit different