<p>Does anyone know a typical score improvement one makes after a lot of studying?</p>
<p>If all the people from this forum have GPA of 4.0, it means that with my 3.88 GPA (maybe 3.9, I still have to take three classes) I have chances only at the worst California State University.</p>
<p>What about passing a GRE? I suppose that in Math I can receive 90%. Will this help to push myself forward?</p>
<p>ive been to two real sit in colleges and at one i have a 4.0 and at the other at 3.3... but i didnt take that many classes at the 4.0 one!hahahaha if that makes you feel any better... maybe like 4 or 5 classes...</p>
<p>hey i see a lot of exellent gpa here and as a prospective student i am really curious to know how many hours a day do you usually study...</p>
<p>"Regardless of whether the truth of my statement was proven, your response obviously did nothing to change whatever truth value it had. You are now missing the point."</p>
<p>No, you are missing the point. You keep avoiding the statement you made from the beginning.."You will find an excess of 4.0s from CCs, and concomitant students thinking it actually compares to the 4.0s at top schools." You have yet to proven the "truth" of this statement and until you do, the rest of your "1+1=who cares" is meaningless.</p>
<p>P.S. This is the last time I am responding to your ignorance.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 at columbia, and am transfering</p>
<p>why are you transferring from Columbia? Do you not like the city?</p>
<p>oh yeah. hey nspeds, remember that fued we had some time ago? lol. Thankfully, we settled it.</p>
<p>I have a technical 4.0- all A's and (A-)'s, but my school counts an A- as a 3.67, so that screws my GPA and makes it a 3.81</p>
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<p>It matters not. The posts in this thread and throughout the transfer archives attest to my claim. The burden lies on you.</p>
<p>You can't just make a claim without supporting it with grounds.."The posts in this thread and throughout the transfer archives attest to my claim." Find me one post on this forum that proves students at CC believe their 4.0 is equal to one from a top tier school. </p>
<p>Happy Hunting!</p>
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<p>Your first contradiction.</p>
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<p>Ohhh... you were contesting the latter claim.</p>
<p>There is a thread here somewhere about that; I believe bball was arguing that a Cornell 3.6 is better than a CC 4.0. You can look for it. </p>
<p>You can persist in your ignorance by not looking for that thread; I have been on this forum for quite a while, so I would be the one to know. </p>
<p>I do not care whether you believe me or not. Should you choose not to believe me, do so to your own detriment. I really have nothing to lose/gain by not substantiating/substantiating my claim.</p>
<p>Listen, you come in here posting off my thread that there are sooo many people that have 4.0s from CC and that they think it's better than similar at topnotch schools which I said simply isnt the case. If you want to keep reposting comments trying to use big words that you learned yesterday on your "You can talk like Mike Tyson too!" audiotapes to try and sound intelligent, and saying the burden lies on me to disprove your outrageous statement then keepon going. Althought I want to persist in my ignorance you obviously live for this discussion board since uve already transferred but continue to post and troll. The bottom line is that the few students that have a 4.0 at community college don't feel like their gpa is better than a similar gpa at a top notch school and to imply that it is soo easy to get a 4.0 at community college is the true ignorance. This is my last post re: this because honestly its a waste of my time to deal with flamer geeks like you who come on here trying to show off and put people down.</p>
<p>the mike tyson thing was pretty funny talkell</p>
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<p>Err... I applied as a transfer to Brown and UChicago for fall 2006. Your ignorance is obvious.</p>
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<p>Reference: bball87's thread.</p>
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this because honestly its a waste of my time to deal with flamer geeks like you who come on here trying to show off and put people down.
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<p>Just like the last time, right?</p>
<p>"He was a transfer student to Georgetown, tallkell."</p>
<p>"the mike tyson thing was pretty funny talkell"...thanks steven16, I thought so too :)</p>
<p>Btw..there has almost been 1,000 views on this thread, but only about 6 4.0s....my point exactly.</p>
<p>I have a community college 4.0. In the interest of not dragging on:</p>
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<li><p>From my experience, CC 4.0s are not rare, but they're not ubiquitous.</p></li>
<li><p>School-to-school GPA comparisons are pretty silly. There are so many factors that need to be considered that making a straight comparison doesn't say much unless the difference is extreme.</p></li>
<li><p>Students (their intelligence, anyway) at top schools are as overrated as Ivy-purists believe that Berkeley is. Send some average top-tier students to a community college and you're not gonna see fours across the board.</p></li>
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<p>yeah that mike tyson thing was pretty funny lol but seriously talkell, there is an egregious overabundance of 4.0s at CC's, which can be attributed by a numerous amount of factors. A portion of it is reflected in the fact that the competition at CC's is generally much weaker then that of 4-year institutions, and often the curriculum is dialed down as well. although, there are university level classes at CC, they are usually peppered with the driven students and seem to maintain the amount of people normally present in 'seminar' discussion sessions. If a CC has an honors program, the classes that they select are often reflective of university level curricula and work. Look, this is a moot discussion. everyone knows that at 4-years, a 4.0 is like an extinct breed. and at the harder institutions, like, say, cornell, for example, a 4.0 there (and i will admit it, because it is the truth) is vastly superior to a 4.0 at a CC. this is common knowledge.</p>
<p>But, there are two things to keep in mind when you say something like that. First, a CC is by no means a 4 year instituition. it is a community college, and serves the purposes of doing so by not neccessarily implementing the same kind of curricula or level of difficulty, but by making material that would otherwise be at the introductory freshman and sophomore year level accessible to wide variety of students. that is why an AA degree is the equivalent of a 'minor' at a 4-year institution, though there may be a noticed disparity in focus. For example, it's difficult to find a 'minor' in auto technology at a 4-year institution, but you know, maybe caltech or MIT has it or something? who knows.</p>
<p>anyway, that's besides the point. another thing to keep in mind is that a 4.0 at a CC doesnt necessarily speak of low intelligence to those whom attend. there is no need to take offense; it simply connotes the workload and courses and reflects the work that one put into that very specific class distribution. The classes may be equally as difficult as university level, as i mentioned before, or they may be in classes that are of interest to that person, but lower level of difficulty...such as, i dont know. <em>shrugs</em> plumbing? </p>
<p>the point is, dont take everything on face. there is a story behind all the rhetoric, regardless of what it is. know what i mean?</p>
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<p>It was rather insipid; a more prosaic joke among others that complain about abtruse words on this forum.</p>
<p>The best defense mechanism CC students have when they encounter students with better vocabularies: do not recognize them for their superior vocabulary, but rather disparage them and hold culpable a character defect they must possess.</p>
<p>I hope I offended you some more, Talk, because pulling your strings and observing you trying to act nonchalant about it is so hilarious.</p>