Back at high school for his senior year, he was still an honor student, with a nearly perfect grade-point average.

He was going to finish with a grade-point average of 2.05.

He offered to make public the grade-point average of all faculty.

Last year's team not only had a 22-2 record but posted a 3.96 grade-point average among the 12 girls.

She has a 3.96 grade-point average for her entire college career.

In contrast, no athletes beyond the first year of college reported a grade-point average below 2.0.

He left Mesa with a 2.5 grade-point average and a better image.

But he finished his senior year with a grade-point average of 1.3.

Many high school students with less than a two grade-point average have learning disabilities.

He was also noted to be an outstanding student with a 4.3 grade-point average.

Three years later, the N.C.A.A. began allowing students to compensate for low College Board scores with higher grade-point averages.

It also establishes a sliding scale in which the students with the lower grade-point averages in relation to a 2.0 minimum must have higher standardized test scores to receive athletic scholarships.

The disabled students generally have higher grade-point averages, Mrs. Parra said.

That conflicts with results of a study published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that students who used higher levels of alcohol had higher grade-point averages.

"Students with these lower grade-point averages often have the knack of doing applied engineering - something that companies want," she said.

Ms. Corey Blanck advises many students with lower grade-point averages to aim for smaller or lesser-known companies.

The scale allows for students with lower grade-point averages to be eligible by testing higher in the standardized tests.

Using a standard 1,000-point scale to reflect both L.S.A.T. scores and undergraduate grade-point averages, Professor Sander writes, the average black student's score was 130 to 170 points below that of the average white student.

"Fifteen or so of the Banneker recipients had lower grade-point averages than Danny."

A higher team grade-point average?