<p>Is a 3.75 uw a 3.8 or 3.7?</p>
<p>It’s a 3.75.</p>
<p>Ok but each time I apply for something like a scholarship they don’t give me that option.</p>
<p>Well
ROUND UP :p</p>
<p>Definitely. This is a basic rule of math. If you can only report down to the nearest tenth, the correct mathematical action is to round up. A 3.75 reports as a 3.8. You can be thankful you don’t have a 3.74 (would round down to 3.7)!</p>
<p>I have a 3.74 lmao</p>
<p>Uh oh. 
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<p>GPAs should be truncated (cut off the last digit), not rounded up. It’s not as important if you’re looking at a 3.75, but even something like a 3.99 shouldn’t be rounded to a 4.0. It’s disingenuous. </p>
<p>I’ve always seen it to the hundreds digit.</p>
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<p>I would disagree here. I see the argument for truncation, but you should be consistent in how you round. A 3.75 to a 3.8 is more disingenuous than a 3.99 to a 4.0 mathematically, but I think people obsess too much with perfection, what a 4.0 implies (somewhat incorrectly I would argue). Grades are grades, and a 3.95-3.99 and a 4.0 are not that different despite what people may want. Either way is fine, but you have to be consistent. One is not worse than the other.</p>
<p>That said, rounding up is the par for the course, and I do not think it is disingenuous at all.</p>
<p>Though I don’t believe there’d be any ramifications for rounding up to a 3.8, I think it’d be more accurate to truncate your GPA at the tenth digit as a 3.7</p>
<p>Truncating is the same thing as rounding down. Why would that be “more accurate”? Certainly, 3.75 is more accurate than 3.8, but 3.7 and 3.8 are equally less accurate? Ditto 3.99 to 4.0 vs. 3.99 to 3.9. You have lost more accuracy rounding down than rounding up. Hence the scientific and mathematical rules of rounding. Granted, I don’t know how accountants or other non-science disciplines handle rounding but I am surprised to hear that truncating (rounding down) would ever be considered superior.</p>
<p>It’s not more accurate mathematically. The idea is that you shouldn’t say your GPA is higher than it is because it looks like you’re lying to benefit yourself. </p>
<p>If you’re applying for a scholarship or something that asks you to give your GPA to only one decimal place, you might email them and ask what kind of rounding they want. </p>
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The difference is mostly psychological. Look at how most store prices are $3.99 or something instead of $4.00. </p>
<p>Although honestly, it would be a lot more convenient if it was just four dollars.</p>
<p>The original reason for 3.99 wasn’t primarily psychological. That’s likely the current reason, but in the past it was a way to force cashiers to use the register and not just pocket the money. It also has the benefit of making it easy to know how many items are sold based on the money made. If you sell 5 items you’ll have made some dollars + 95 cents, 20 items some dollars + 80 cents, etc.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s unlikely to make a difference in a scholarship application and it’s more important to be consistent than the method chosen to be used.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses, I will mostly likely just email them. </p>