<p>I see countless people fretting over their just entirely hopeless GPA on CC. They act like it's completely hopeless and that they're a failure for it - yet most often the people posting such things have a 3.4+. In what universe is anything above a 3.0 horrible? If a C is average, and that's a 2.0, then how are you just a dreadful, hopeless student for having a 3.6 - especially if that's unweighted?</p>
<p>Just something I've noticed. Maybe I'm missing something. But it seems to me that the reason that good colleges often let in people with 3.0 GPAs is that your GPA is not that bad.</p>
<p>My question is - what do you consider a good GPA, and what do you consider bad? Obviously there are different standards if you're aiming for one college versus another - but generally speaking, what high school GPA would make you think, "This person doesn't take their education seriously at all"?</p>
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<p>It’s not. Assuming you’re talking about unweighted GPA, the [url=<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>High School Seniors Earn Higher GPAs, Take Harder Classes: National Assessment of Educational Progress | HuffPost College]average[/url</a>] is closer to 3.0.</p>
<p>People on here generally want to get into top colleges, which means they have to fare well in comparison to other top college applicants (not average students). An unweighted GPA below 3.7 or so is not ideal.
But it’s true that people on here are melodramatic, and sometimes it’s just false modesty. </p>
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<p>I don’t care what kind of grades other people get, and I’m not going to hate on other people or make assumptions about them based on their GPAs. For myself, I wouldn’t want anything below a 3.9, and I feel like a failure when I get a B. I think some of this is justified because of grade inflation…every time I’ve been close to getting a B, it’s because I procrastinated and didn’t try as hard as I should have, and I think it’s reasonable to feel bad about that.
If I went to a school/college with grade deflation, I wouldn’t expect such a high GPA.</p>
<p>C’s aren’t average. They’re considered bad by people that have higher standards and want to get into prestigious universities.</p>