GPA Calculation With No + or - Grades: Good or Bad?

soozievt
Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:10:02 +0000

My daughter goes to Brown and they also do not have plusses or minusses. They actually do not get a GPA either. They get As, Bs, or Cs (or can opt to take a class P/NP). However, a GPA can be calculated for graduate school. I think it would be rough to earn an 89 average and get a B just the same as if it were an 81. She doesn’t seem to mind and while she is a high achiever and strives for high grades (was a straight A student in high school and achieves similarly in college), she says that learning in college is not about the grades. I think the students there are fine with the system. I think there was some talk of adding plusses and minusses but it did not pass (I hope I have this straight as this was a conversation a long while back). I know when she applied to study abroad through another college that wanted a GPA, one had to be calculated by her school. She is applying to graduate school as well. It seems like the students at her college go onto good grad schools and so the lack of +s and -s doesn’t seem to have a negative effect. It would take me some getting used to but I am not the one who goes to college.