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And at MIT the maximum grade is a 5.0 (A=5, B=4, C=3... etc)

Same with high schools: some weight an A+ in an AP class as a 5.0, which means HS GPA needs to be normalized by each university's admissions committee.

6.0 even!

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[REBECCA]

You were close, but no match schoolastically

Nohow, no way

I put the "O.G." in "5.0 G.P.A."

[AUDRA]

Well, speaking of which, are you A.P. graded?

'Cause these days you look a bit heavily weighted

Wouldn't that just be 4.33/4.33? My university has a similar system, with A=4 and A+=4.3, it's just that it's written as out of 4.3

Nope, on the transcript it's /4.0. It's absurd I know.

And each department (and sometimes class or professor) has their own policy about whether they ever grant an A+.