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Hello, I know this will sound kind of funny but was wondering if there was a standard way to calculate GPA on a four point scale for when applying to US grad schools? My (Canadian) school uses a 12 point scale (below) which is obviously different than most others. I'll finish with around a 10.8. The thing that makes me ask the question is the 90-100% A+, the 85-89% A and the 80-84% A- where on most scoring systems A's are worth 4 but are 90-100% and B's are worth 3 but are 80-89%. For us 80-89% is A or A-. Do I use the percentage or the letter? Or is there a special way to calculate when 80-89% = A or A-? Thoughts?

Thank you all so much for your replies. Very good to know. I thought the 800 would help with funding. I don't actually know anyone else who is taking the GRE (I'm in Canada and about a decade older than most of my undergrad peers) and assumed it would help lock down a spot at Columbia in 1) a PHD in Sustainable Development (they let in six people per year) or 2) a joint MIA/MBA or 3) a joint MPP/MBA at Harvard. In other words, you're thoughts are greatly appreciated. By the way, congrats on the great verbal scores.

Interesting. Thank you very much

Hello I had a question I was hoping someone might be able to answer. Does anyone know what vocab for an 800 verbal score looks like? I heard Barron's 3500 but it looked light. I'm less than 200 away from finishing it at the moment but recently found a 10,000+ amalgamation of a number of popular ones (over 1600 A words - pretty cool) but I'm predicting 100 hours(ish) to get all the words down (which is on top of other prep and studies) and would really prefer to deploy my time elsewhere. I know the 10,000+ one is overkill but was wondering if anyone knew of a happy medium? I'm 20 weeks out from my projected GRE test date, started studying a month ago for three hours a day which I plan on keeping up until test day, and have scored over 700 verbal on the two CATs I took. I had a decade long break between high school and university and am just finishing up my BA and am hoping to transition straight into grad school at Columbia. I'm aiming for an 800 verbal (haha, I know lots of people probably say this) and am wondering what that would look like vocabulary wise. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Cheers