<p>I'm asking this because my friend and I couldn't find any information on it online.</p>
<p>A Dean told me that quality-point wise an A+ is like a 4.2/4.3 something in that range. However if you look up UVa's grading scale, it says that an A+ is a 4.0, then it has a 7 in parenthesis.</p>
<p>If this is true, then how is it possible that the valedictorian and salutatorian graduate with above 4.0's? </p>
<p>And also, does this mean that there is no point in getting an A+ versus an A apart from it appearing on your transcript?</p>
<p>Wait since when does UVA even have a valedictorian for the college of arts and sciences???</p>
<p>No one in the College can graduate with anything above a 4.0</p>
<p>I had 4 or 5 A+'s, and should have had a few more (perfect 100 or over 100 numerical averages that only appeared as an A on my transcript). No benefit other than your transcript.</p>
<p>(also the 7 means that in the law school it IS worth 4.3… just not in the College or any other undergrad schools as far as I know).</p>
<p>@hazelorb, so none of the undergrad schools (Comm, A-School, E-School) have valedictorians/salutatorians? And also do they have different grading scales, or is it universal across all the schools? Because the grading scale that I reference is under the College’s website? tried googling one for the eschool and didn’t find one?</p>
<p>p.s. i’m not looking to receive one of those honors, I just wondering because I couldn’t find this info</p>
<p>I can’t find any info on it, either. This makes me believe that there are none. It is not listed in any of the final exercises programs, even the “valedictory” one which applies to all of UVA not just CLAS.</p>
<p>If you look at the footnotes of that CLAS grading scale page, you can see the subtleties of the grading scales across schools (ie, in some schools you can’t take a class pass/fail). Note, there’s nothing that says “93 A 92 A-” or anything like that, that depends on each and every professor.</p>
<p>ah okay. So i’m assuming that this would also apply to classes taken in other schools, i.e. if one takes a course in the Commerce or E-School, and receive a A or B, the quality points they receive would be the same across the board? Like a A- would be a 3.7 in the College, the E SChool, and the Comm school?</p>
<p>CLAS, SEAS and COMM all use the same grading scale (A- is a 3.7, etc), so your grades from all those schools will factor in the same. </p>
<p>The only school I know of that uses a different system is Law, with the 4.3 for A+s. Under certain conditions, undergrads can take classes in the Law school (one of my friends did), and in that case grade points would be awarded based on the school the class is taught in, so theoretically an undergrad in the College could get a 4.3 for an A+ in the Law school. Obviously this is an exceptional case.</p>