Here are some more outstanding recent milestones accomplished by college students hailing from Ellington and Somers.

GPA Conversion Chart from Letter Grade To GPA Scale. Source: The College Investor This is just one example of how to convert letter grades to numeric values, and there can be other ways to do it.

But if you’re a Wilson or a Ziegler, you may be suffering from a new slight of the modern age: lower college grades. Grading processes have profoundly changed at colleges and universities in the past ...

Calculating your GPA: All courses for which a letter grade (A-F) is recorded are computed in ... Grades received at other institutions are NOT averaged with grades received at Luther College for the ...

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Proponents of the latter sometimes view “test” as an unpleasant four-letter word. They argue that scores ... However, opponents argue that GPA is a better measure of a student’s college readiness, ...

Instead, the College should recognize the benefits of a lower-stress, more flexible system and do the opposite, replacing letter grades with pass-fail altogether. To its credit, Harvard College ...

Grade inflation is already high among high-schoolers, and many are not adequately prepared for college. If anything is a participation trophy, it is our current letter grading system. The Post ...

I realized I was college-ready ... No student challenged his letters. When I matriculated at the same school a few years later, my grades on the 11 papers I wrote my first quarter averaged ...