magiman Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Just to clarify, many conversion scales were put forth on the sticky post. I am wondering if anyone can verify if this is the correct conversion scale: 4.0 = 87-100% (A) 3.7 = 80-86% (A-) 3.3 = 75-79% ( Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 seems to be unknown at this point. I know someone who attests to the scale posted by sony, but KennethToronto is disputing that and suggesting it is the scale you just posted. I have a few friends who are applying and I will get back to you when they figure it out, but you should apply and find out for yourself! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 I go to Queen's, and for my AMCAS application I just put A's and B's for the courses, and they changed the marks to 4.0 for every A I have and 3.0 for every B (since Queen's doesn't give out -/+, you should just go ahead and put in the letter grades you see on your transcript). 4.0 = A = 80+ 3.0 = B = 70+ I am 110% positive about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethToronto Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 I go to Queen's, and for my AMCAS application I just put A's and B's for the courses, and they changed the marks to 4.0 for every A I have and 3.0 for every B (since Queen's doesn't give out -/+, you should just go ahead and put in the letter grades you see on your transcript). 4.0 = A = 80+ 3.0 = B = 70+ I am 110% positive about this Wow, I might be calling AMCAS about this soon haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 if you are not sure, the best way to find out would be to call them but this is what they did for my application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 You don't receive percentages with your grades? Only letters? That's awesome... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a41 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Damn I only get percentages, and not letters, except for one course, which they marked as pass/fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Queen's gets percentages and letters. However, for AMCAS it's best to enter the letter grade you see on your transcript and then they will change it into GPA according to which Canadian school you go to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magiman Posted September 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 soTAN, you calculated ur gpa according to those percentages and it worked out? Where did you get those numbers from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a41 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 Queen's gets percentages and letters. However, for AMCAS it's best to enter the letter grade you see on your transcript and then they will change it into GPA according to which Canadian school you go to. Queen's Engineering doesn't give letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 soTAN, you calculated ur gpa according to those percentages and it worked out? Where did you get those numbers from? When I was filling out my AMCAS application I put letter grades (from my transcript) for every course. AMCAS then changed them to GPA. For every A I had I got 4.0 and for every B I had I got 3.0. Hope that answers your question. PM me if you need clarification, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magiman Posted September 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 hmmm thast very interesting.. thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 17, 2007 Report Share Posted September 17, 2007 OH THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW, kennethtoronto thats what i was trying to say, you said that your transcript had flat out only %, but I have % AND a letter, A,B,C,F (no +/-) so maybe thats why you were forced to use the scale that you posted. I think that's unfair tho, Queen's Eng is pretty hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a41 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 OH THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE NOW, kennethtoronto thats what i was trying to say, you said that your transcript had flat out only %, but I have % AND a letter, A,B,C,F (no +/-) so maybe thats why you were forced to use the scale that you posted. I think that's unfair tho, Queen's Eng is pretty hard I'm not sure how you did it, but you managed to confuse kennethtoronto with myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 nope i didn't, he said that he had flat out %'s on his transcript and no letter grades in another thread (i believe it was competitive stats) and so it would make sense if he was in eng and had to use the 87-100 = 4.0 scale that AMCAS had officially posted up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THX Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Damn, I don't think UWO gives letters. I only see percentages on my transcript. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a41 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 nope i didn't, he said that he had flat out %'s on his transcript and no letter grades in another thread (i believe it was competitive stats) and so it would make sense if he was in eng and had to use the 87-100 = 4.0 scale that AMCAS had officially posted up. I know ken personally and he's not in engineering, he was in biochem, so he does have letters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Ohh weird, I wonder why he said he didn't have letters on his transcript...he should definetely take it up with amcas then! a41 areyou in ur 4th year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethToronto Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Ok, I have both letters and percentages on my transcript. I decided to enter the percentages rather than letters, expecting AMCAS would use the same conversion (sounds logical doesn't it?) Well, now apparently AMCAS has dropped the ball. I'm still trying to figure what to do about this...but it'll most likely be nothing because I'm arleady verified and complete at all my schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 Ok, I have both letters and percentages on my transcript. I decided to enter the percentages rather than letters, expecting AMCAS would use the same conversion (sounds logical doesn't it?) Well, now apparently AMCAS has dropped the ball. I'm still trying to figure what to do about this...but it'll most likely be nothing because I'm arleady verified and complete at all my schools. I had two friends apply through AMCAS before I did...one used letters and got the same conversion I did (A = 4.0, etc), and the other one used percentages and got that different conversion...go figure...AMCAS is doing it's own thing all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastriss Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 kenneth, wouldnt AMCAS eventually look over what you did and realize that you should have put the letter grades in and correct it anywayz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tan008 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 kenneth, wouldnt AMCAS eventually look over what you did and realize that you should have put the letter grades in and correct it anywayz? Unless you put in an official request, they are most likely (knowing AMCAS and having experienced similar issues with them ) will not do anything by themselves. If you want to get letter grades in there, you should definitely contact them and explain the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KennethToronto Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 I'm already verified and complete at all the schools I applied to. At this point, it's way too late and likely will not make much of a difference with my application. Ahh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magiman Posted September 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 I haven't done an application in the US. So you input your marks manually? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madz25 Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 I haven't done an application in the US. So you input your marks manually? same way as in OMSAS...you type out course name, enter course year and grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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