For high school students, grade point average is often a major focal point -- a barometer of their academic success. GPA is a factor in class rank, college admissions, scholarship eligibility and more ...

While a student's major is considered, medical schools place the greatest weight on the "science" or BCPM GPA – that of ...

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Admissions officials put a higher priority on grades in college-prep classes Greater access to Advanced Placement courses are driving up GPAs Top guidebooks don%27t factor high school GPAs into their ...

Officials in Township High School District 214 said this week that a new grade point average scale will soon make it easier for students to gauge college admission requirements. The district’s ...

Grades of "satisfactory" (C or better) or "unsatisfactory" are given to all first-year students enrolled in a course offered for credit at mid-semester. Final letter grades are provided at the end of ...

Freshman year of high school, as nearly anyone can attest, is a lot to digest, from new locker combinations to lunchroom politics to catching the right bus and avoiding rowdy juniors. Aside from those ...

Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is retroactively increasing all of its current students' grades. That C+ from last year is now a B-. Everybody's GPA just went up by 0.333. Magic! The school says that ...

For high school students, grade point average is often a major focal point — a barometer of their academic success. GPA is a factor in class rank, college admissions, scholarship eligibility and more; ...