At least here in CA, students get a 5.0 for an “A” in an Advanced Placement (AP) class. These classes are the equivalent of first year, general education, college courses.
I guess many schools aren’t really on a 4.0 scale if some courses earn five points and students can score higher than 100 on some exams.
The advanced placement is a racist joke as TOO many of those students are either:
Chinese girls, young women
or
minority males who are WAY too obvious in their absence. They crash and burn because they don't belong there. It's NO favor to them.
Almost all the tokens crash and burn unless they happen to be very educated and/or intelligent. They just get to see, up close and personal, how deficient they are for competing with the rest of America.
I worked in this golden state for 44 years in public education as an instructor, so I kinda DO know what I am talking about too.