funkmunk Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Hello, I'm wondering how UBC converts grades that are in gpa format (/4) to a %, as used in their AQ scoring system? Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkmunk Posted August 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 nevermind, I found it... http://grad.ubc.ca/forms/awards/faculty/UniversityGradingSystems.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochi1543 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Woah, this is the most confusing table I've ever seen. How do you read it? Although it only has 1 uni out of the 3 I attended, and I only took 2 courses there, so it's not like it's very helpful for me, anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitseleh Posted August 7, 2008 Report Share Posted August 7, 2008 For what it's worth, I emailed UBC to ask because my grad school grades are letter grades and they said that the conversion factors were confidential, so I'm guessing that it's probably different than what's presented in that table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkmunk Posted August 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 Thanks for letting me know! They seem so secretive when it comes to AQ stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little rock Posted August 11, 2008 Report Share Posted August 11, 2008 For what it's worth, I emailed UBC to ask because my grad school grades are letter grades and they said that the conversion factors were confidential, so I'm guessing that it's probably different than what's presented in that table. How surprising of UBC to say so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astropark Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 From what I can gather UBC takes your grades at face value. Unless your institution's transcript has gpa-to-percent conversions explicitly listed, which they will then use, UBC directly converts letter grades according to the UBC grading scheme. I.e. a 4.0 gpa at a school that uses 4.0 as a maximum would convert to 85% at UBC. A 3.67 (i.e. an A- average at many schools) would convert to 80%. It's unfortunate that they don't really account for the fact that an A at other schools should be more like an A+ at UBC, but I guess they prefer to scale students down as opposed to scaling them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitseleh Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 From what I can gather UBC takes your grades at face value. Unless your institution's transcript has gpa-to-percent conversions explicitly listed, which they will then use, UBC directly converts letter grades according to the UBC grading scheme. I.e. a 4.0 gpa at a school that uses 4.0 as a maximum would convert to 85% at UBC. A 3.67 (i.e. an A- average at many schools) would convert to 80%. It's unfortunate that they don't really account for the fact that an A at other schools should be more like an A+ at UBC, but I guess they prefer to scale students down as opposed to scaling them up. Looking at my file review from last year, I don't think it quite works out like that. I had four courses that were letter grades from my Masters added on to my UBC percentage GPA and if I work out the math using the number of credits I added (Overall Average from file review*Total Credits - UBC Average*UBC Credits ), two A+s and two As average out to about 88.5% added to my application per course. If they just used the lowest mark, they would have averaged out to 87.5%. It's possible I'm screwing something up somewhere though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura_333 Posted August 22, 2008 Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 I was looking at the conversion table and wondered if there are ranges or large categories. For the 4.3 max scale it seems like if you have a gpa of 3.9 you would be put down in the same category as someone with gpa of 3.7 and get 82%. Am I understanding this correctly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkmunk Posted August 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2008 Hmmm, looking under Calgary and following across until you hit 3.88 (out of 4), it gives a UBC grade of 88%. I'm not sure if I'm right or not, but this seems to make the most sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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