# I have a 4.0 GPA!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-4-0-gpa/336541>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 21, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-4-0-gpa/336541 "2005-12-21T00:24:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-4-0-gpa/336541/21 "2005-12-21T17:26:18Z")

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Congratulations! I made 4.0s all through grad school, wiht _one exception_ when I got a freaking B. Normally a B wouldn’t piss me off, but 3.91 is so unwieldy next to a nice, round 4.0.

In law school, however, things have been _ahem_ a bit different thus far. I’ll get grades for this semester in a few weeks.

**Sunspace** , the grades go (highest to lowest):

A=4  
B=3  
C=2  
D=1  
F=0

So yes, a 4.0 average means you got all A’s.

(Anyone know why there’s no “E”?)

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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-4-0-gpa/336541/22 "2005-12-21T17:45:07Z")

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Yay **Mississippienne**! 🙂 Congratulations!

(Of course, I know you’re really smart from your posts here, so I’m not surprised)

> [@Sunspace](#):
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> We don’t have GPAs here either (at least we didn’t when I was in school), so how do they work? Is a 4.0 “perfect”?

Yes, it is.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-4-0-gpa/336541/23 "2005-12-21T17:50:19Z")

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> [@jackelope](#):
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> **Sunspace** , the grades go (highest to lowest):
> 
> A=4  
> B=3  
> C=2  
> D=1  
> F=0
> 
> So yes, a 4.0 average means you got all A’s.
> 
> (Anyone know why there’s no “E”?)

Thanks!

When I was in school, we had A to E. When I was in college, I encountered A to F with no E. I always thought it was simply because F stood for Failure. But they also had other codes like WD for Withdrew form the course.

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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-4-0-gpa/336541/24 "2005-12-21T18:10:08Z")

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> [@jackelope](#):
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> Anyone know why there’s no “E”?

We have E’s, but no F. An E is equivalent to an F.

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