Should / How do I include my school's GPA Scale in my CV / Application I'm preparing my grad school applications (CV, letter of intent, etc) and in these I need to include my GPA. My school uses the 4.3 scale and I feel as though not including this information is misleading since my GPA will look better when compared to someone who is actually marked out of a 4.0.

But I have not seen this in any online example nor have I seen it in any of the outlines that schools give for their expected applications.

Should I include the GPA scale and if so how do I do this? Would 3.9 / 4.3 be reasonable?

Update / Solution

By the general look of the comments it is best to avoid ambiguity by stating the scale up front. So, I think the general consensus is GPA/grades should be reported along side their scales.
I had the experience of sitting on a graduate admissions committee during my years in graduate school.  (This was at a "top-10" school in my field, though not a "top-5".)  In my experience, the raw GPA number was mainly used to make a "first cut" to weed out the fraction of applications that were almost certainly sub-par.  (Things like super-low GRE scores were also used at this stage as well.)    Once the applications got beyond this initial screening, committee members would read carefully through them;  and at this point, the raw GPA was put aside in favor of the more detailed grade information on the transcript.  Almost every transcript, especially those from US colleges or universities, had an explanation on the back about the system used to assign grades and calculate the GPA.  There's enough variety in the systems used by different institutions (even within the US—foreign institutions had even more variety) that I always had to read through this information to contextualize what I saw on the transcript.

Which is to say:  it's probably best to be honest about your GPA in the CV.  But if you don't mention it specifically, the committee members will almost certainly still be able to figure out that your school had a 4.3 scale;  and they almost certainly won't hold it against you for not mentioning it once they've figured it out.