Opinions on GPA Grading Scale Change

[nem90, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN]

I'm sorry in advance for the long post!

I'm currently a third semester student in my ABSN program (which is 4 semesters long). For the past two semesters, my school has graded us by: a 95 and above = A, and 90-94 = A- (in almost all other professional schools at this university a 93 is considered an A). This semester, they just changed the rule that now a 93 and above is an A and 90-92 is A-.

My question is, is it fair to ask the school to change the previous grades of my cohort and the cohort above me, to reflect the new grading system? Since we are the two cohorts that would be graduating with grades and GPAs compiled from two different grading systems?

To me, and others in my cohort, it seems unfair that if we, for example, got a 94 last semester it shows up as a lower grade of A-, but if I get a 94 this semester it shows up as an A. It seems like it would be a misrepresentation of our academic performance since an A/ 4.0 can significantly impact your GPA in a good way, more than an A-/ 3.7 would (and some of our classes are worth 6 credits) .

Another student in our class had tried meeting with our dean to discuss this, and the dean would not even agree to sit and meet with her. We're definitely happy that they finally changed the grading scale, but were all a little upset since they wouldn't even hear her out. I'm just curious what everyone else's opinions are since I don't know if we're all a little too caught up in the situation to see things another way, and that the school refusing to even talk about changing it is understandable.

* As a side note, getting hired at the hospital associated with our school heavily emphasizes high GPA's, as well as getting into NP programs, and getting scholarships at our school (which is a very expensive private school). So GPAs are very important to me and others as well, otherwise we wouldn't make such a big deal about it.

I don't want us to come across as we're just a bunch of knit-picky, super competitive people that would get a 98 on test and argue for more points...there's a good percentage of people in our cohort that could really improve their GPA if all their grades reflected the same scale.

Sorry for the long post! Thanks so much!