. "Our student received eights and sevens, similar to A and B grades, but her Bay Area High School interpreted them as mostly Cs because they insisted 10 was an A, 9 was a B and 8 was a C, and it lowered a straight A average in High School and then grade point average for college admissions. (Someone had mentioned this before we went abroad but I didn't pay much attention to it, thinking we could con" . . .