Nursing CAS GPA

[K1996]

Does anyone know if Nursing CAS factors in plus and minus grades into the GPA evaluation?

[kalycat, BSN, RN]

My experience with the CAS several years ago was that it *did* factor in plus and minus grades, but unfortunately, it actually rounded your cumulative GPA *down* because of the way it factored in these grades. I transferred credits in from one school that used a point system that calculated to the 10th based on your grade percentage in each class: 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, .3, .4 etc, and one school that used a letter system where the decimals skipped around: 3.0 (B), 3.5 (B+), 3.7(A-), 4.0 etc.

Because of how my grades from the letter based school were calculated by the CAS, my total cumulative GPA ended up being something like a 3.7 instead of a 3.9. Not sure if it is still done that way.... But that was my experience. Good luck.