Your transcript contains a list of courses, credit hours, and (hopefully) good grades. But to you, the information appear as data, and sometimes as noise. … Read More

The typical high schooler views his or her GPA as a mindless average. An “A” in advanced calculus equals an “A” in biology, end of … Read More

This site does three things at once: calculates how many semesters until graduation, predicts the number of hours per week to study given your course … Read More

You know what happens when you have to read a complicated manual? It’s frustrating. Why is it written in such an unnecesaryly complicated way? Chances … Read More

Without translation into rank, however, the number is just a label. “I have an IQ of 130” carries a certain heft on its own, but … Read More

Plug your classes into the calculator above, and it will do the work for you by handling all the conversions and coefficients. Admissions committees is … Read More

Somewhere you’ve probably read or been told: Write at a sixth-grade reading level and you’ll reach more people. While this is something of a catchphrase, … Read More

Anxiety grips you when you see your syllabus and wonder what kind of shape you’re going to be in academicaly. Worry becomes fact when you … Read More

When most middle schoolers view their report card, they notice the letters (or colors); they don’t recognize the underlying mathematical equation behind those grades. If … Read More

A mix of letters, numbers, and course levels, high school transcripts can be difficult to understand without context. That is, until you’re required to put … Read More