GPA conversion Italy
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:24 am
Hi everyone.
I'm an Italian student and I'm applying for PhD these months for 2020. I have an excellent Master GPA, which is very close to 4.0, but I got a bad semester back in Bachelor. I'm not sure, however, how this will be counted, and I don't know exactly what my reference is.
Let me explain: my bachelor was 6 semesters: in the first 5 i got around 29/30 on average (that's the Italian grading), but in the last semester went particularly bad for personal difficulties, and my average dropped to 28.4/30. which is still good fro Italia standards. I am still deciding what universities to apply for and I would like a reference. The fact is that for me things like 3.8 or 3.5 are kind obscure.
I have tried two conversions to US GPA:
28.4/30 --> 28.4/30*4 = 3.78 still very good
or, taking into account the fact that in Italy PASS is 18/30:
28.4/30 --> (28.4-18)/(30-18)*4=10.4/12 = 3.46 I would say "only" good ?
I was wondering which one would have the most significance, to better choose the aim schools
Thank you in advance for any help
I'm an Italian student and I'm applying for PhD these months for 2020. I have an excellent Master GPA, which is very close to 4.0, but I got a bad semester back in Bachelor. I'm not sure, however, how this will be counted, and I don't know exactly what my reference is.
Let me explain: my bachelor was 6 semesters: in the first 5 i got around 29/30 on average (that's the Italian grading), but in the last semester went particularly bad for personal difficulties, and my average dropped to 28.4/30. which is still good fro Italia standards. I am still deciding what universities to apply for and I would like a reference. The fact is that for me things like 3.8 or 3.5 are kind obscure.
I have tried two conversions to US GPA:
28.4/30 --> 28.4/30*4 = 3.78 still very good
or, taking into account the fact that in Italy PASS is 18/30:
28.4/30 --> (28.4-18)/(30-18)*4=10.4/12 = 3.46 I would say "only" good ?
I was wondering which one would have the most significance, to better choose the aim schools
Thank you in advance for any help