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Re: Profile evaluation HBS 2+2 [#permalink]
A 710 is indeed a little low compared to your cohort. It qualifies you but it's not as high as we like to see for a 2+2 candidate; the averages are incredibly high for those accepted students.

On the French grades, we have understood from our other clients that a 14 to 15.9 is a "bien" or B grade, and a 16 to 20 is a "tres bien" or TB grade. It sounds like you're hitting lower than you estimated - a 14.5 is unlikely to translate to a 3.7 on the U.S. system. You should always report your marks in the system that your institution uses.
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Re: Profile evaluation HBS 2+2 [#permalink]
essaysnark wrote:
A 710 is indeed a little low compared to your cohort. It qualifies you but it's not as high as we like to see for a 2+2 candidate; the averages are incredibly high for those accepted students.

On the French grades, we have understood from our other clients that a 14 to 15.9 is a "bien" or B grade, and a 16 to 20 is a "tres bien" or TB grade. It sounds like you're hitting lower than you estimated - a 14.5 is unlikely to translate to a 3.7 on the U.S. system. You should always report your marks in the system that your institution uses.


You are getting confused ;)

On the baccalauréat 16 does correspond to TB and 14 to Bien. I scored a 16.57 = TB on mine

In upper studies though, the system gets really confused, mixed between university (faculté) and Grandes Ecoles... with different grade systems ;)

As a matter of fact, London School of Economics for example might ask for a 13/20 for someone at "faculté" to get into master's, while it only asks for 12/20 from someone in "Grande Ecole"..

Weird, confusing French system :D

I was thinking that my grades while at Hopkins might help HBS assessing my grades.. I took 300/400 level classes (except for my Russian classes, which started 200) and got a 3.76 GPA
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Re: Profile evaluation HBS 2+2 [#permalink]
Thanks for setting us straight! Yup, it is confusing - but don't worry, all the schools are well versed in these different systems, they'll be able to evaluate your marks just fine. :-)

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