how does the conversion work?

3.0 gpa here is 73%
wuts percent is a 3.0 in the states?
4.0 is 91.ckl89 wrote:Anybody know what a 3.0 gpa in Canada would be in US?
how does the conversion work?
3.0 gpa here is 73%
wuts percent is a 3.0 in the states?
Good point..IHeartNewYork wrote:I'm Canadian and had my transcripts converted already so I know where you're coming from. Can't really speculate on what your GPA will be unfortunately, you basically have to send in your transcripts to LSDAS and see what they do with them; it depends on what's on your transcript.
Every Canadian school's transcript can be treated a little bit differently as well, because some of them give letter grades, percentages, or other numeric grades of some sort. I'm from an Ontario school that shows both letter and percentage grades on the transcripts, so until I actually sent mine in I really didn't know how my GPA would turn out on the US scale. It's especially complicated by the fact that our letter grades are valued differently than in the US, for example at many schools an A is 80% or higher whereas in the US an A is usually in the 90's I think...
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