Abstract
A student’s grade point average (GPA) is very important to most scholarship committees, potential employers, and graduate school selection committees. Some students place such importance on grades that they actively manipulate their GPA higher by taking actions that raise grades without additional study and learning. Students can seek out easy professors, transfer grades for difficult topics from community colleges, try to gain favoritism with their professors, or cheat on assignments. During the Covid-19 pandemic, universities offered grading leniency, such as allowing students to switch grades to credit / no credit after the semester’s end, which artificially inflated grades. We apply Felton and Koper’s (2005) proposal for having two grades on a transcript, Nominal GPA and Real GPA, as an easy to understand and apply method for dealing with some of the methods of GPA manipulation.
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