I would assume there is a know policy/calculation that determines this prize. If not, shame on the school.
One of my daughters alway whined that from 95% up you received they same GPA score of 4, basically making an “A” the same as an “A+” toward GPA. I told her to stop whining and that she shouldn’t have slacked off Freshman year receiving those 3 nasty B+’s. I was alway on the other end of the spectrum, so she usually saves her rants on this subject with her mother.
Thank you. My boys only got “life is hard” from me if they whined about anything. They are outstanding citizens and professionals now.
On topic, our daughter had epilepsy as a young girl; she had the kind that you grow out of at puberty.
So she worked really hard on her grades when she was in Primary School. Every night my husband will go down and work with her on the chalkboard in the basement. Because he was French and she went to a French School. But all that work has paid off. She was accepted at McGill but turned that down for another good school it has a good program in her field.
But believe me, when she turned down McGill, I was practically in tears, begging her to go. I kept telling her, people recognize that name even in the states. But she had different ideas and sometimes you got to just forget about it and let go. I think she’s done pretty well anyway. As for the grading oh, they have a different system it’s numbers not letters. She has brought her numbers up. It’s just a question of hard work.