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International Education Week: WES Offers Students Free GPA Calculation International Students Get Free Access to WES iGPA Calculator™ Helps Students Better Determine Admissions Eligibility to U.S. Colleges and Universities New York, NY (November 14, 2011) – To commemorate International Education Week (November 14-18, 2011), international students can calculate a U.S. GPA on a 4.0 scale for free with World Education Services’ (WES) international grade point average (iGPA) Calculator™. Attending an American university can be extremely competitive. With thousands of grading systems worldwide, accurately calculating a GPA for foreign grades can be challenging for both international students and the schools that admit them. International students seeking to apply to U.S. colleges and universities can benefit from knowing their GPA in order to determine their admissions eligibility and to include their GPA on admissions applications. Students can use the online calculator for free until 30 November by using the promotion code “savenowIGPA” at wes.org/igpacalc. More About iGPA - The iGPA Calculator provides a GPA on the 4.0 scale for post-secondary grades from grading scales in over 150 countries. The database used to derive calculations is based on 35 years of experience in international credential analysis. The iGPA calculators are available for use by academic institutions and international students. Click here to learn more. About WES: World Education Services, Inc. is the largest non-profit credential evaluation service in the United States. WES has delivered over 750,000 credential evaluation reports to educational, business, and governmental institutions worldwide. The mission of World Education Services is to foster the integration of persons educated in foreign countries into academic and professional settings. About International Education Week: This initiative is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. For more information visit: http://iew.state.gov |

