<p>Now that your first semester is done? How were your grades...better or worse than expected?</p>
<p>My son just got his final grades today. He made honor roll (honor roll is 3.5 or above--he had a 3.52) in his first semester at IU. Still, this was slightly less than he was expecting (3.63). He had a couple of really tough finals in Accounting and Economics that brought down his grades in those two subjects.</p>
<p>I think he's pretty happy about his result, though. His high-school GPA was only 3.3 unweighted. Also, he told me he thinks he'll do much better next semester. The adjustment involved in being alone 1800 miles away from home at a new school took some time.</p>
<p>5 grades reported... still waiting on my one blowoff gened class...</p>
<p>Hopefully, I will make a 3.6+</p>
<p>My proffesors were not nice in rounding: psychology: 89.666666 = B+ (***?) finite also had an 89ish. Destroyed my GPA there.</p>
<p>I like how gen ed classes make your GPA go down (at least for me). Business classes are much better. A100 is the hard class (suprisingly i got a flat A in that class0.</p>
<p>yea for a100 his curves (especially since he still counts the exam score over 100) really help.</p>
<p>My son was in A100 also--but that was his worst grade (C+). Fortunately, it is only a one unit class. I notice that 56% of that class either withdrew, got Ds, or failed. (So the curve didn't help all that much).</p>
<p>I somehow managed to pull of all a's and a minuses for a 3.89, coming from a 3.4 in high school.</p>
<p>Fantastic result, zippo. Any suggestions you want to give to everybody else (other than work hard)?</p>
<p>Also, what classes did you take? What major?</p>
<p>business - i did a100, x104, m118, and then astronomy, spanish (250) and bowling. i would say in a100, besides studying, read each question on the test several times. on both tests, i would find at least 5 questions that i misunderstood the first time around. as long as you try in x104, you should get a b or better, and yeah i can't say enough about choosing the right profs (ratemyprofessors.com). take bowling</p>
<p>Haha, my grades were TERRIBLE. I'm not going to post my GPA. But then again, I don't think anyone here took Peter Olson's E201 class.</p>
<p>A2Wolves6, you are no longer interested in transferring to Mich?</p>
<p>Even if I had higher grades, I wouldn't transfer to Michigan, I feel Indiana is a better environment with better oppurtunities (for me at least).</p>