<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm taking Chinese 1A right now, and professor said that they don't give out A+ in this class. Why? How would the gpa calculated then?</p>
<p>It wouldn't matter of course on the 4.0 basis, but I'm a pre-law, and A+ does count, you know.</p>
<p>Does that mean that even though I did fabulous jobs in Chinese classes and got As, they'd still lower my law school gpa?</p>
<p>Any comment..? anybody?</p>
<p>A+ = 4.0
A = 4.0</p>
<p>right?</p>
<p>Except for law school, which counts NP as an F (despite the fact that it doesn't do anything to your UC GPA) and A+ as 4.3.</p>
<p>OP: Don't have an answer for you. Do you really have A+'s in everything else? Because if you don't, it's unlikely even one class would lower your GPA. And if you do... why are you worrying about one class? </p>
<p>I haven't heard of a foreign language "policy" that forbids the awarding of A+ grades, but the Chinese department may be different. Maybe you could... I dunno... ask them, and explain why you're asking?</p>
<p>Thanks undecided; yeah, I guess I should ask them about it.</p>
<p>having taken chinese1a, i don't believe it's their POLICY to not give A+'s, but rather that it has never happened (or if it has, very very few times). the reasoning behind this is that if you are good enough to be getting 97+ on each of the unit written and oral tests, then you probably are a native speaker or have some sort of background in chinese such that you would be in the X series.</p>