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Well my UofT transcript shows numerical grade (GPA), letter grades and percentages. So I am bit lost which table to follow on this page http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf

 

Can anyone help? it seems that if you look on page 3 in table titled 'Five or more Passing grades, alpha +/-', youll find the scheme used by UofT. More specifically, the second row of 'Alpha' grades exactly correspond to the system used by UofT. Should that be used or the last table which actually has written on it 'Numeric- Canadian'?

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Well my UofT transcript shows numerical grade (GPA), letter grades and percentages. So I am bit lost which table to follow on this page http://www.aamc.org/students/amcas/2008amcasgradeconversionguide.pdf

 

Can anyone help? it seems that if you look on page 3 in table titled 'Five or more Passing grades, alpha +/-', youll find the scheme used by UofT. More specifically, the second row of 'Alpha' grades exactly correspond to the system used by UofT. Should that be used or the last table which actually has written on it 'Numeric- Canadian'?

 

i've said this several times on this board already. i went to UofT as well and applied to US schools. input your letter grades in the application. my AMCAS GPA ended up being EXACTLY the same as my UofT GPA, which follows none of the scales listed on their site but that's what happened.

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Ok guys, this should be the only post clarifying queen's gpa:The letter grade you receive on your transcript as an artsci (ABCF) is the corresponding amcas grade. Therefore, an 82, which appears as an A on the transcript, is converted into an AMCAS A, which corresponds to a 4.0. I witnessed this with my own eyes on my friend's application. Do not follow the 87-100 = A scale - not true.

 

And yes - you put the letter grades in, forget about the percent. Don't be alarmed if when they received your transcript they change what you inputed and replace them with the % grades. If you go on to the print preview for the application, you will see the amcas letter grade, which indeed was the same as the queen's letter grade.

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Ok guys, this should be the only post clarifying queen's gpa:The letter grade you receive on your transcript as an artsci (ABCF) is the corresponding amcas grade. Therefore, an 82, which appears as an A on the transcript, is converted into an AMCAS A, which corresponds to a 4.0. I witnessed this with my own eyes on my friend's application. Do not follow the 87-100 = A scale - not true.

 

And yes - you put the letter grades in, forget about the percent. Don't be alarmed if when they received your transcript they change what you inputed and replace them with the % grades. If you go on to the print preview for the application, you will see the amcas letter grade, which indeed was the same as the queen's letter grade.

 

The Queen's 87-100 = A scale works as well as that is what (unfortunately) I did.

 

But if you go to Queen's, enter the A/B/C/D instead - it's a huge advantage

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Does anyone have grades reported as on a 0-9 scale as well as receiving a letter grade?

 

I go to the University of Victoria, and a 9 is A+ 90-100%, 8 is A 85-90%, 7 is A- 80-85%, etc. I just realized AMCAS has the Canadian numerical grade conversion (I was just looking at letter grade conversion before) and it would make my gpa so much lower.

 

Will they look at the numbers and ignore my letter grades?

 

I've tried contacting them but received no reply.

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Does anyone have grades reported as on a 0-9 scale as well as receiving a letter grade?

 

I go to the University of Victoria, and a 9 is A+ 90-100%, 8 is A 85-90%, 7 is A- 80-85%, etc. I just realized AMCAS has the Canadian numerical grade conversion (I was just looking at letter grade conversion before) and it would make my gpa so much lower.

 

Will they look at the numbers and ignore my letter grades?

 

I've tried contacting them but received no reply.

 

Call (202) 828 0600 ( I assume EST business hours would be best) and ask the AMCAS specialists; they were really helpful when I was inputting my grades.

 

 

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Re Alastriss: have you seen them change it from letter to percent? because my grades get seriously inflated thanks to queen's ABC/F. the transcript DOES say that the grade is the letter and the mark is the percent, and the grade is what they want.

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I know the first post has already stated the conversion scale for UBC to AMCAS GPA, but can anyone else confirm if it is true? Also, do they look at the letter grades or the percentage grades to convert the GPA if we have both flavors of grades on our transcripts?

 

Thanks

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I was just verified and the queens system of 80 or above = A is incorrect

 

kenneth toronto you are correct in your system

 

They are both correct, You will get put on the 87-100 = A system until you tell them to change it otherwise.

80-100 = A is the scale that stands. Flamesfan I hope my PM helped.

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i've said this several times on this board already. i went to UofT as well and applied to US schools. input your letter grades in the application. my AMCAS GPA ended up being EXACTLY the same as my UofT GPA, which follows none of the scales listed on their site but that's what happened.

 

right. but is there any scale that would inflate the gpa of UT studnts? it seems people from other school can squeeze out some benefit (uwo) then why dont we? unless its futile for us to do so.

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