Univ of Waterloo grade conversion to GPA for USA univ?

Question

My friend has scored between 75% to 80% in his undergraduate computer engineering at University of Waterloo. He plans to do Graduate Studies in the USA in Computer Science/Computer Engineering. The GPA requirement in USA is minimum of 3.2+ in most universities. How does the 75%-80% convert to GPA?

Thanks,

Answer 1

The individual school, or State board of regents if it is public state college, will have their own rules for how oversees transcripts will come in and from where.

However, generally speaking an A is 90-100% and worth 4.0 points, 80-99% is a B/3.0, 70-79 is a C/2.0, and 60-69 is a D/1.0. The GPA is the hours of each course taken multiplied by points for the course. The average value for each hour taken is the GPA.

Unless you friend has pulled 90+ in his core classes, it sound like he would be eligible. But like I said, every school/state may have a slighty different spin. I know here in Virginia they scale the English schools up when doing the computation.

Answer 2

I think I recently wanted to do this so I just plugged in "grade point average" into my search box and it shows all the various
numbers as a comparison
it went something like this:
4.5=95%
4.0=90-94
3.5=85-89
3.0=80-84
2.5=75-79

This might be a little off as I am going from memory but just plug it into your search engine and you will get the right numbers