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by gorena 3980 days ago
This is not necessarily true. If you're already a good student, this devalues your GPA, mostly due to the generally awful GPA system. Assuming your school considers everything above a 92 to be a "4.0", if you're already in that range, you definitely don't want to help anyone else into that range.

Note that, of course, this would be fixed by just making GPAs decimal numbers out of 100, the average of all of your actual, numeric grades from each course (multiplied by credit hours?). You can divide it by 25 if you really want the weird 4.0 scale for some reason.