My late wife graduated from a large State University with a 3.97 GPA. She totally earned it.
At that time it was impossible to get a score above 4.0.
My wife managed to be 5th in her class, because she took 2 “honors” levels of Russian (4 and 5), while I was taking the 2nd and 3rd years of electronics, which was considered vocational. :)
I got her back by starting to date her in college, causing her to nearly flunk calculus. :)