Title. I missed the A cutoff by .12% (got a 92.88 while A is 93), so my final grade is entered as an A-. I was on friendly terms with my TA, who submitted the grades (he said I’m one of his most best students), but the professor explicitly told the class on the 1st day not to ask for grade bumps.
Should I bother asking in this case or let it go? Only posted this since other topics seem to ask to be bumped up whole point(s), while this is thinner than a razor’s edge.
You can ask, but the prof can refuse. If you fail, just lick the wounds and move on.
If your professor rounds your grade up,s/he would have to go back and recalculate every other student’s grade. Why would they give out grades to the hundredth of a point if they were going to round them later on? I suspect that for students hoping to go onto med school, those hundredths of a point difference in GPA might make a difference. That’s probably why s/he explicitly told your class not to ask them to do that.
Kinda answers your question. You can ask, the prof will say no, and you can move on. I’d add the caveat that should you ask, do so with the assumption that this is not a prof that you should ask for a rec in the future.
FYI, I once had an instructor that included her grading guidelines in the syllabus:
A = 93.0000-100.0000
A- = 90.0000-92.9999
etc.
Never mind that it was mathematically impossible to get a 92.9999, but the message was clear - she was not rounding.