<p>Don't forget that medical schools and law schools will ignore Duke's mechanism for assigning GPA points and will impose their own hierarchy on it.</p>
<p>For example, Duke could start counting an A+ as a 4.3, but neither medical schools nor law schools will care. Medical schools would still count it as a 4.0, and law schools will still count it as a 4.33, no matter what Duke does. An A- is assigned by Duke to be a 3.7. That happens to be the same thing that medical schools will do, but law schools will count it as a 3.67, no matter how Duke chooses to do the math.</p>
<p>As it happens, medical schools calculate your GPA the same way Duke does, but make no mistake: if Duke changed its rules, medical schools wouldn't change theirs.</p>