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GPA Addendum? Grade Deflation
I went to U of Toronto and did a science major and in Canada we use a different grading policy than US schools. B's are not average here, most classes have a C+ average (classes with a D+ average are not uncommon in your freshman year). On my transcript it also shows what class average is however Im pretty sure schools dont see this since it all goes through LSAC and they just report a number. When I calculated my cGPA of all the class average for all the courses I took, it came out to a 2.36, while my gpa is a 3.31.
Should I write a GPA addendum for this explaining the grading policy? Since I can't find the official policy, would it be possible to somehow mail my transcript to each school?
Should I write a GPA addendum for this explaining the grading policy? Since I can't find the official policy, would it be possible to somehow mail my transcript to each school?
- Holly Golightly
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Re: GPA Addendum? Grade Deflation
Don't write an addendum. Schools don't care. And I don't think foreign GPAs are counted anyway.
- kjartan
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Re: GPA Addendum? Grade Deflation
Lol at a "different grading policy than the US."
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They do, i checked, they dont count canadian schools as foreign.Holly Golightly wrote:Don't write an addendum. Schools don't care. And I don't think foreign GPAs are counted anyway.
Yes, they actually are, most schools aim for C+ here, and from what I see online, most of your schools have B averageskjartan wrote:Lol at a "different grading policy than the US."
- jcccc
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Re: GPA Addendum? Grade Deflation
No one cares about grade deflation, especially at your gpa.
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- yot11
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Re: GPA Addendum? Grade Deflation
C+ is not uncommon at all for engineering majors in the US (can't speak personally for other majors). Get over it and don't write an addendum.
canadianbrother wrote:They do, i checked, they dont count canadian schools as foreign.Holly Golightly wrote:Don't write an addendum. Schools don't care. And I don't think foreign GPAs are counted anyway.
Yes, they actually are, most schools aim for C+ here, and from what I see online, most of your schools have B averageskjartan wrote:Lol at a "different grading policy than the US."
- MistakenGenius
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- alexjinye
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Re: GPA Addendum? Grade Deflation
same here, I think schools won't care. they care about how are you going to contribute to their rankings.
I went to a u.s. news top20 school and find out the school has grade deflation. So, I transferred and I am on my way to break that 3.95 right now. yes.
I went to a u.s. news top20 school and find out the school has grade deflation. So, I transferred and I am on my way to break that 3.95 right now. yes.
- alexjinye
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sometimes ppl regret that they didn't go to a TTT.