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...present system assigns rank the same way Phi Beta Kappa picks out students for possible election. An "A" is worth 12 points, and the scale goes down from there -- 11 points for an A-minus, 10 points for a B-plus, 9 points for a B...
Under the 12-point system, students are ranked by converting grades to number values. An A equals 12 points, an A-minus 11 points, a B-plus 10 points, down to a D-minus, which is worth two points...
...Kraft enrolled in the school's new department of aeronautical engineering. He was rejected for service in World War II because of a childhood injury that left his right hand scarred and slightly shriveled. After graduating from V.P.I, in 1944 with a .325 batting average, a B-plus scholastic average, and a fascination with the problems of aircraft stability and control, he went to work as a flight research engineer at Langley...
...choice. A bright, cherubic-faced six-footer who had skipped fifth grade, Greg could have taken the normal courses, knocked off all A's. Instead he chose to test his mettle in Houston's tough "major works" classes for advanced students and wound up with a B-plus average, which led Harvard to reject him, Columbia to put him on a waiting list...
Some relates the story of one Texas who "could have taken normal and knocked off all A's," but the instead to test his ability in classes advanced students. As a result, the states, "he wound up with a B-plus age, which led Harvard to reject...