Originally Posted by DakarM
in CA when you get financial aid you have to maintain a min. of 2.0 and have to complete min. number of units.
for example if the min units they require you to complete each semester is 16 then you multiply that by 2.0 (the min gpa) and you get 32.
so you have to have 32 credits. you can get this in many ways. say you only take 8 units but get a 4.0. then again you have 32 credits.
I would say you were deficient because you failed that one class and the rest of your gpa wasn't high enough to bring you up to the minimum credits you have to complete.
I think that you have credits and quality points confused.
Typically, the credits earned for an A are the same as the credits earned for a C... meanwhile a C is typically worth 2 quality points, and an A worth 4. You multiply your quality points for each class by the number of credits for the class... do this for each class and add the sums together. Then divide by the total number of credits attempted to calculate your GPA.