<p>Obviously, the answer is hard, but is it rare to get a 4.0 at MIT in math and bio as majors. I heard of a person who had a perfect GPA, whos going to harvard med i think</p>
<p>I am sure that a perfect GPA is quite rare (remember that they are on a 5.0 scale, though).</p>
<p>oh wait, MIT’s gpa is out of 5.0?
i did not know that</p>
<p>Yep, they are.</p>
<p>Yeah, a 4.0 is a little below average. 
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<p>Having a 5.0 at MIT is rare, but seems not to be as rare as a perfect GPA at other top schools. Remember that MIT doesn’t award plus/minus grades on the transcript or in the GPA, so straight A-minuses is also a 5.0. </p>
<p>Two people I know in my year graduated with 5.0s, one in biology and one in EECS. I’m sure there were several more, either among the set of people I don’t know, or among the larger set of people whose GPAs I don’t know. (It’s considered gauche at MIT to talk about your GPA.) So it’s uncommon to graduate with a 5.0, but multiple people per year do it.</p>
<p>I would guess 1 in 50 students, at most, graduates with a 5.0.</p>
<p>^ That is much more frequent that I would have expected. Are you an MIT student?</p>
<p>Yes, and I know there are at least eleven 5.0s in the Class of 2010.</p>
<p>Again, recall that a larger set of possible grades will earn you a 5.0 at MIT than at other schools. At a school that records plus/minus modifiers, there is only one way to get a perfect GPA. At MIT, there are many ways: 32 As, 31 As and 1 A-, … , 31 A-'s and 1 A, 32 A-.</p>
<p>I agree that the typical number per year is probably at least 1/100 and not more than 1/50.</p>
<p>I know 4 in my year, all of them premeds…hahaha. =/</p>
<p>Spark of hope: the one 5.0-er I know in the Class of 2011 is not pre-med. :P</p>
<p>O_O, You are in MIT and you are worried about your GPA.</p>
<p>It’s an easy thing to not be aware of… at the beginning of the movie “21,” the officer (Dean?) of Harvard Medical School who is considering him for the full-ride scholarship is impressed at the protagonist’s “4.0 from MIT.” </p>
<p>Or maybe he decides 4.0/5.0 is sufficiently impressive ;)</p>
<p>A lot of people are also under the false impression that you can graduate from MIT “summa cum laude.” Bah.</p>
<p>Neither of the two I know from my class were premed – one is in my PhD program, and the other is an EECS PhD student at Stanford. :)</p>