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Converting LC Points to GPA?

Tet2015 · 2014-09-06 20:19:32

Recently I've been checking out colleges outside of Ireland in the US & Canada, it says on their college websites that they require GPA's, however I'm kind of clueless as to how they'd go about calculating the GPA of a leaving cert student. Would it involve actually looking over secondary school transcripts(every grade the…

06-09-2014 8:19pm

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Recently I've been checking out colleges outside of Ireland in the US & Canada, it says on their college websites that they require GPA's, however I'm kind of clueless as to how they'd go about calculating the GPA of a leaving cert student. Would it involve actually looking over secondary school transcripts(every grade the student has received) or just looking at the leaving cert points?

I never really focused much in secondary school until 5th year which explains why I got mainly average results. However for my leaving cert let's say I get a near perfect score, how do you think the colleges in the US would judge my record?

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