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To: Robert DeLong
This GPA is higher than a 4.0, meaning that your school measures GPAs on a weighted scale (class difficulty is taken into account in conjunction with your grades). At most high schools, this means that the highest GPA you can get is a 5.0. A 4.5 GPA indicates that you're in very good shape for college.

Something is very wrong with that.
A+ = 4.3 -- RARELY accepted by universities with ANY plausibility.
A = 4.0
A- = 3.7
B+ = 3.3
B = 3.0
B- = 2.7
C+ = 2.3
C = 2.0
D+ = 1.3
D = 1.0
D- = .7
F+ = .3
F = 0

I once DID give a wonderful but stupid young man an F+.

Universities don't bother with anything higher than a 4.3, AT MOST, and those grades are for those students who have figured out how to walk on water...and I don't mean ICE kind of water.
4.6 = NONSENSE.

She will get out into the real world and her grades will mean piffle. Her character will establish her, nothing less. Thirty years after her graduation she probably won't even remember any of her classes, let alone the grades.

23 posted on 06/08/2016 3:12:13 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain
She has proved her character to be lacking.

Bragging that she tricked the system and will receive a free college education is sick.

That is the pure “establishment” of her character.

Her parents should be proud and deported.

32 posted on 06/08/2016 3:24:15 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: cloudmountain

She’ll probably go the academia route. No need to work.


41 posted on 06/08/2016 3:33:49 PM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: cloudmountain; Will88

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.


48 posted on 06/08/2016 3:39:23 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: cloudmountain

Heh. There are companies that won’t hire people with very high GPAs. Too often these high GPA students are simply eggheads with the ability to memorize for and pass tests but don’t really understand any of it.


79 posted on 06/08/2016 5:31:21 PM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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