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Hey, I was just wondering about the grade limits. I know this may not the be correct place to address my question however, I was hoping many CCers would see it here. In some schools around the country, an 'A' is a 90 wheres other places it is a 93 and etc. There are varying degrees of what an 'A' is. How do colleges deal with this? What prompted me to write this question is because my report card is 89 to 90 in ALL of my classes for 10th grade! And so my GPA is about 3.3 (uw) or somewhere around there . However if a 90 was an A, i would have a 4.0 GPA unweighted. Is this fair? If not, how do colleges see it and deal with it? Thanks for viewing.

By Encomium (Encomium) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 08:42 pm: Edit

colleges usually deal with it by not looking at numerical GPA or grades specifically but by looking at rank to determine the school's difficulty...if an A is easy/hard to get, etc.

By Titanz05 (Titanz05) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 10:11 pm: Edit

bump

By Pamvanw (Pamvanw) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 06:37 am: Edit

Someone specifically asked this question at 2 different admissions sessions we were attending. Both answers were the same. They use the system your school tells them, then recalculate the GPA based on academic classes only. Colleges can't know about every high school in the US so they have to accept that your school knows how easy/hard it is to get an A, & that they structure their grading system accordingly.