VMCAS grade conversion chart

[tamsdivision]

I am trying to figure out the VMCAS grade conversion stuff. My school operated in percentages, and when I look at the VMCAS conversion chart, there is no A+/B+ etc, only A/B/C.... Has anyone run into this situation? It doesn't seem fair? Should I be calling my university to ask if they have conversions to letters on official transcripts?

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[moosenanny]

Better yet, you can call VMCAS and see what they say to do 🙂

 

[BlacKAT33]

haha i thought it wasnt fair my grades were put in with the +/- system because my school didn't have that as mandatory. It was the profs choice. and i lost out on a lot of +'s because profs chose not to put them, i also had more -'s because those profs chose to use them. argg of course after i graduated the system is now mandatory.

 

[chordy4]

Did they change the format this year then?

Anyways, I had a similar issue last year where my undergrad assigned grades that went from 0.0 to 4.0 by tenths...so you could have a 3.8, or a 2.9, whereas the VMCAS grading was limited to A (4.0), A- (3.7) etc.

What I did, and what they say to do if you have a non-standard grading system, is to use the explanation statement to clarify. So, I rounded up for some of my grades, and rounded down for others, and just was consistent and explained how I entered my grades VMCAS style.

The schools get your transcripts, and I think those are what they use anyways to do any calculations, so I wouldn't be overly concerned about it.

 

[Robdude]

I always felt like the +/- was unfair.

Every +/- scale I've seen still caps out at 4.0; that means you can earn an A- and end up with a 3.7 but you can't get an 4.3 with an A+.

So if you took two classes and received an A- / A+ your GPA would be less than a 4.0.

 

[nyanko]

I am trying to figure out the VMCAS grade conversion stuff. My school operated in percentages, and when I look at the VMCAS conversion chart, there is no A+/B+ etc, only A/B/C.... Has anyone run into this situation? It doesn't seem fair? Should I be calling my university to ask if they have conversions to letters on official transcripts?

Welcome to life. It isn't always fair. Plenty of us went to universities without +/- grading at all, or as BlacKAT said, left up to the discretion of the professors. I definitely got enough 89% marks that just ended up being reported as B with 3 grade points. 🙄

 

[quantized]

It doesn't say how to convert them on the back of your transcripts? My two schools that had a weird scale explained how it translated on the back of my transcripts, and I threw in a blurb in the explanation section about how the grading scales worked at those schools.