Bad GPA for Top Schools

skieurope
Sat, 20 Apr 2019 22:16:51 +0000

What then would the scale be?

4.0

Presumably, a straight A+ student would then have a 4.3 GPA, or wouldn’t they?

Yes, but it would be a 4.3 on a 4.0 scale. Now I’m not saying that there are not high schools that call it a 4.3 scale, and that may be the case for the OP. However, in most cases, the denominator is whatever an A converts to.

And if there is a straight A+ student, particularly without test scores to back up, one should assume that questions of grade inflation will arise.