Every student in a graduating class at Duke (1.5k) has a
grade-point average (GPA) between 0.0 and 4.0.
The registrar uses these GPAs for a number of different tasks:
- assigning Latin honors,
- identifying the valedictorian,
- computing ranking for specific students,
- characterizing the effects of grade inflation
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