Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For high school students, grade point average is often a major focal point -- a barometer of their academic success. GPA is a ...

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Admissions officials put a higher priority on grades in college-prep classes Greater access to Advanced Placement courses are driving up GPAs Top guidebooks don%27t factor high school GPAs into their ...

ADF Academic Dishonesty - Failed. Denotes a sanction of failure in a course due to Academic Dishonesty. Calculates as an F in grade point average. ADY Academic Dishonesty - No Credit. Denotes a ...

Grades of "satisfactory" (C or better) or "unsatisfactory" are given to all first-year students enrolled in a course offered for credit at mid-semester. Final letter grades are provided at the end of ...

An opinion piece I wrote on the tyranny of the grade point average in last Sunday's Boston Globe prompted a surprisingly supportive response, particularly from academics who agree that the ...

Freshman year of high school, as nearly anyone can attest, is a lot to digest, from new locker combinations to lunchroom politics to catching the right bus and avoiding rowdy juniors. Aside from those ...

Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is retroactively increasing all of its current students' grades. That C+ from last year is now a B-. Everybody's GPA just went up by 0.333. Magic! The school says that ...