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i think a lot of systems weight a 4.0 as an A 3.0 as B.....so someone could swing a 4.3. strangely, most places go by .3 instead of thirds.


Yes, but no final course grade in is ever higher than 4.0.

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jrv, i'm not sure what age you are, but I saw something saying ernest greene got a score that didn't end in a zero and maybe you're his contemporary, give or take a decade. do you have any idea if the test was ever scored to allow anything other than multiples of ten?


I think some schools did allow course grades to be reported with a fractional part (era: 1980). But I can't remember any specifics on this any more.

If you've been out of college for more than a couple of years and don't have any other accomplishments you care to brag about ... that just about answers the question, doesn't it?

To put it another way: when I interviewed engineers / made hiring decisions I made a firm policy of never looking back more than five years at the college stuff, not the grades nor the school. If they couldn't justify themselves on their work record at that point they wouldn't any time soon (thinking about it now I can't recall grades ever coming up in an interview, even for a college hire, although Personnel presumably filtered out the real dogs).
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