<p>basically i've just transferred into a new university..so I made a solid effort to an A in my classes this first semester (essentially my GPA has reset)</p>
<p>I studied for 2 hours every single day in the library, and 6 hours day before exams.
I found out my last assignment grade today..after manually calculating I see 91.59% in my first engineering course, with A being 92%.</p>
<p>so do you guys have experience with professors doing students a solid by just giving them the A in these situations?</p>
<p>(I made mistake as well of not visiting professor to discuss my last exam...he does remember me by name, but i should of just gone...even if it MAYBE would have made a difference)</p>
<p>91.59% is a solid A in every class I’ve ever taken.</p>
<p>Yep - My S high school did this to kids all the time. (I always thought it was petty and unrealistic to judge people to the hundredth of a percentage point). Sorry it happened to you.</p>
<p>I take it you’re getting an A- then, instead of an A, which has a GPA difference? And most professors in college won’t round up, although it was routine in high school for me.</p>
<p>whether you get an A or A-, just be happy with the grade. it’s a good grade.</p>
<p>Some professors DO round up, and if yours knows you by name (even if you didn’t see him for the last test), chances are that you’re better off than most of the class. Maybe go and ask him yourself where your grade is going to fall since it’s borderline.</p>
<p>don’t go in there demanding it, but yes talk to him about it, be reasonable, inform him how hard you’ve studied and enjoyed class.
good luck</p>
<p>My school goes by a 7 pt system instead of the “normal” 10 pt system. I hate it, many times I have got close and my professors have rounded up to the next grade.</p>
<p>Ask him about it. It’s not like you’ll be in a worse position than you are now. If he agrees to, great. If not, you’re in the same boat.</p>
<p>you certainly don’t want to **** off the professor either. some professors don’t like it when students come to them complaining about their grades.</p>
<p>At my HS, 93% is an A…if you get a 92.5 or above they always round up no questions asked. I don’t know how it is in college, though.</p>
<p>Don’t go to your professor. Going to him isn’t going to make him round up the grade. If he is going to round up your grade, he’s going to do it without you asking him. Asking him to do it will just rub a professor the wrong way.</p>
<p>^I agree. While this is very important to you, the professor won’t see the big deal about getting an A-. In fact, it might put the professor in a tight spot, since it wouldn’t be fair if you were the only one whose grade gets rounded up. There are probably many people in the class who put in as much or more time/effort than you did but didn’t do nearly as well. Asking the professor to bump up an A- could make you look like a grade-grubber. If you take future classes with this professor, you don’t want to end on a bad note. An A- might bring down your GPA a little bit, but it’s the grade you earned.</p>
<p>Each professor’s policy will be different. The one class for which my grade was borderline had a really fuzzy grading scheme, but I ended up getting the higher of two grades. But I suspect that in this case, the grading was less number-based (since we only got letter grades, not numerical ones) and more holistic.</p>
<p>I mean, it’s a half a percentage point. COME ON! If I were the professor, I would round it up. It’s not like he has a 90.59% and wants the 92%. I’m sure that the professor probably will. To my knowledge, my school doesnt show percentages so I think it automatically would round but I’m not sure.
Anywho, if you have a good rapport with the professor and know how he is, it doesnt hurt to ask.</p>
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<p>response: if it’s not a significant difference, maybe the student should’ve worked just slightly harder, to get 4 more tenths of a percent somewhere over the length of an entire class.</p>
<p>If the syllabus says that an A- is 90-91% and an A is 92-100%, then you have a case because your grade is closer to an A. Take it to the dean in that case.</p>
<p>Most syllabuses would say that an A- is 90-91.9% or even 91.99%. In that case you just didn’t get the required grade.</p>
<p>logicwarrior, i have never thought of that.
if this is the case i will bring it up</p>
<p>-From syllabus “A: 92-100%, A-:90-91%”</p>
<p>i guess i have an A then…lol (by technicality)</p>
<p>I will still have to wait till late tuesday for the official grade, there is no way for me to contact the professor anyway im hundreds of miles away now.</p>
<p>listen to the advice given by akhman24 and demeter. an A- is nothing to worry about. you’re worrying about something you currently have no control over.</p>
<p>“there is no way for me to contact the professor anyway im hundreds of miles away now.”</p>
<p>Uh, email?</p>
<p>still asking that sort of thing over email, seems like i will get a referral to the syllabus or something.</p>
<p>and he has a history of never ever ever returning emails.</p>