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How does one get a 4.0 GPA?

Does your GPA get all converted to one GPA when you try to get accepted into a college?

  • I have a really rough time with my GPA. I go to a very small, private, college-prep school and just to be blunt- they have the stupidest GPA system ever. I'm being serious! Our grading scale is SO hard. Like, for example, the only way you can make an A+ is to get a 99 or a 100. And if you make a 90 your at a B. And if your at an 85 your at a C. It's awful. I hate it. So, right now, with that grading scale, I'm making a 2.8 GPA and I make pretty good grades! My family was always telling me when I got a report card and stuff that they were proud of me but because I want to get into a really good college, I need to keep trying to raise my GPA. But, they just realized how hard our grading scale is! My dad whose attended a lot of different colleges said that it was harder than what most colleges grade by. He even said that if we went by normal, even college grading scales, that I would at least be making a 3.4 or higher! I was really mad becuase I feel like I'm being cheated. Because, while I hear that other friends of mine who go to a different school who don't have to study or work nearly as hard as I do are easily making a 3.8 or whatever, here I am sweating bullets trying to make the highest grades I can and study and make time for it. I literally have no life during the week! That's how much work and studying we have. And I'm in the 9th grade here. So, I don't know. I guess it just makes me really mad. But I'm wondering, will colleges be able to see and tell that I went to a college prep school and therefore it was a lot harder? WIll they convert everyones GPA into one so that it'll be fair? I just don't understand. It's so important to me and it really makes me mad...

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    They can't put a lot of weight on GPA because of the differences in schools and classes. A student in honors courses getting a B versus a remedial English with an A is an example. Some schools have A+ and others only to A. The biggest factor is usually the SAT's (or ACT's) and there is also SAT II individual tests for various subjects. The individual three parts of the SAT and the total are able to equalize people. From that set of people with the scores they are looking for they then look at almost everything to make final acceptances. If you score high on the tests, have extracurricular activities or backgrounds they want to see for school balance, that is what is important. Sometimes the application has a place to write a letter that you can explain your school or classes as very competitive.

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Most schools don't award A+'s at all, and colleges don't consider them any better than an A. Your GPA scale isn't all that uncommon. Many schools with grade inflation problems are using similar scales. Colleges consider your class rank along with your GPA, and that will tell them more about how you're doing. Not all college prep schools are better than public high schools, so colleges don't count them differently. If you really would be earning a much higher GPA somewhere else, it will show up in your class rank, test scores, and activities. No, colleges are not going to change your GPA.

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