4.3 GPA system?

emaryllisxx
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:24:23 +0000

Sorry if this has been asked before, but can someone please explain to me how Cornell’s 4.3 GPA system works in terms of getting into graduate school? Do they just treat any A+ grades as A’s when it comes time to compare students from different undergraduate universities? Do I have any reason to work really hard for those A-pluses? And if not…why does Cornell even bother with 4.3 GPA scale - does it have any practical advantages? Thanks.