<p>people always talk about oh i have a "4.1 on the UVA grade scale" as someone told me earlier... what does that mean?</p>
<p>UVA probably awards a 4.3 for an A+.</p>
<p>WashU does not do this. We have a 4.0 for an A+/A, 3.7 for a A-, 3.3 for a B+, 3.0 for a B and so on.</p>
<p>^Or 4.0 for A+/A/A-, 3.0 for B+/B/B-, etc. if you’re in engineering! :)</p>
<p>Nope, SEAS is moving to the +/- scale starting with this year’s freshman.</p>
<p>It’s not just this years enginering freshmen- it’s anyone new to engineering this year (learned this from a dual degree, who obviously isn’t a freshman).</p>
<p>Huh, ok. I guess I’m glad I got in when I did. Was SEAS the last school in the university not using the +/- system?</p>
<p>Also, the average GPA at Wash U is somewhere around in the 3.40-3.50 range, if I remember correctly from the last Greek GPA report. That is averaged across all the divisions.</p>