What GPA out of 100 is in a good range for Ivy range schools.
I am currently in HS in the US and my school grades on precentage and uses no gpa or letter grades. I am currently in my 2nd term of junior year and have a 92.1% UW average. By the end of 1st term senior year I will most likely have somwhere between a 93 and 94% average. I got kinda screwed in freshman and sophmore years so that is why its possibile to still improve my GPA another 1-2 points. I have shown a good trend in grades and rigor. (going from Mostly B+ grades in 9th and 10th grade with a few A-s, to only As and mostly A+s in my 2nd term sophmore year and 1st term junior year.) Our school only allows APs in 11th and 12th grade, and the max amount is 2/year. I am currently taking 1 junior year and will take 3 next year. (worked something out). School only offers 7aps and I will have taken the most advanced English, Math and Science APs the school offers.
I am not concerned about my extracurriculars, essays, reccomendations. I am confident in those. I am just wondering if schools will see my 93-94 average and not even look further into the other parts of my application. Is this a good enough average for ivy range schools?(Rice, Johns Hopkins, etc)
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Hey there @throwit!
Most of the time, you'll see schools state their average GPAs on a 4.0 scale.
Here is the link to CollegeVine's GPA converter, so you can see what your GPA would be on a 4.0 scale.
https://blog.collegevine.com/how-to-convert-your-gpa-to-a-4-0-scale/
Here are the average unweighted GPAs for the schools you mentioned and the Ivy Leagues:
- Johns Hopkins, 3.87
- Rice, 3.96
- University of Pennsylvania, 3.87
- Brown, 3.94
- Yale, 3.96
- Dartmouth, 3.90
- Columbia, 3.91
- Cornell, 3.91
- Princeton, 3.87
- Harvard, 3.93
A 94 would be a 4.0, since it's an A. Since you cannot have a higher GPA than a 4.0, I think it'd still be worth applying to the schools you listed, if you think your ECs, essays, and recommendations are strong.
If you have very strong extracurriculars, essays and recommendations, you should be good to go. You can have a below average GPA for Ivy leagues and still get in. If you have a good SAT or ACT you can use that also.
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