What's the grading scale in college?

Question

GPA-wise, is an "A" and "A+" worth 4.0, and an "A-" worth 3.7?

Answer 1

When I was in college we didn't have + or -, just the grade itself. An A was worth 4 points, B was 3, C was 2, D was 1, F was 0. So straight As were a 4.0 and down from there. You should contact the specific university you're interested in to see if they use a weighted system and how they weight + and -.

Answer 2

If you are a "minority" then you automatically get a half grade to a whole grade higher than what you really earned. It is called affirmative action points, like what they do when they let "minorities" into colleges to make the college look "diverse".

If you are white male and work hard to get a B in a class. That's what you get but if you are a woman and/or black, hispanic or asian then if you get a B in a class the professors are instructed to bump it up to an A.

Affirmative Action is just the lower of standards to allow people into positions that they haven't earned just for the sake of "diversity" and "multiculturism".

Answer 3

depends on the school, some schools (or colleges within universities) will honor A+ as a 4.5