<p>Grades are coming out, I don't have all of them yet from first semester, but I was wondering what is an average GPA for one semester freshman year? I really have no idea of average, is it like 3.5ish or what? I don't know what to compare mine to when I find out.</p>
<p>Depends on your major and career aspirations. Surely you don’t want to compare yourself to everyone?</p>
<p>I don’t know, I just wanted to know some averages/norms. I’m doing double degree- BM Piano Performance & BA History, so for those majors if that helps.</p>
<p>I would be surprised if the AVERAGE was much more than 2.7. For many students the first semester is a real eye-opener. In addition, for many students the sudden freedom and social temptations afforded by college is too much to handle.</p>
<p>ive been wondering about this too. its looking like im gonna get a 3.5, but i didnt really know where that stands among other freshmen. im a mechanical engineering major, if that matters.</p>
<p>In 2008, it was apparently about 3.05. ([source](<a href=“http://www.bls.gov/osmr/pdf/ec080020.pdf]source[/url]”>http://www.bls.gov/osmr/pdf/ec080020.pdf)</a>)</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 after my first semester, but I think that’s rare. I do believe it helps that college wasn’t a drastic change for me, and that I really enjoyed the classes I took- therefore, studying wasn’t an issue because it wasn’t work.</p>
<p>This semester didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. I just didn’t understand Latin at all and my sociology teacher (the only one I could take) sets the average grade as a “C” and makes it very difficult to get a higher grade.</p>
<p>I was talking to someone in our career center and I was like, “I’m really concerned that my GPA isn’t going to be much further north than a 3.0 this semester.” Response: “Well, what are you planning to go into?” Me: “Social work” Response: “Oh, you barely need a 3.0 for that anyway.” <_<</p>
<p>I have heard though that the average GPA for the first year here is around a 2.7.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what it is here… I’m pretty curious. Classes that I thought were really easy, other people struggled a lot. I know in my Stats class… there were initially 200 students, by the final exam there were only 188. The highest median on an exam was a 79. So on every exam at least 90 kids in the class had a C or below.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 this semester. I haven’t had straight A’s since the sixth grade.</p>
<p>Started with 200 and ended with 188? I have a friend in an intro math class that lost 75% of its enrollment. </p>
<p>Didn’t you mention in another thread about how y’all’s grades are padded by attendance and participation? (In other news, I drove by USC today on my way home today. ^^)</p>
<p>^Yep. They are. But if you make a C on every exam… the attendance portion will hardly help you. You’re still likely to come out with a C+ in the class, <em>if</em> you get a 100% on the homework and go to every class.</p>
<p>And going home is always very exciting!</p>
<p>I think the average has to be fairly low. I’ve heard a lot more recently about freshmen having lower grades and the expectations for them being lower. I noticed the other day that the requirement for the Dean’s List is usually a 3.5 at USC, but for freshmen it’s a 3.25.</p>
<p>I would have thought that more freshmen would have higher GPA’s because they’re taking easier classes… but I guess that isn’t the case.</p>
<p>At one of our training sessions at my job in the tutoring center at my school, one of the managers presented the data he had collected on this. I don’t remember the exact number but the average was definitely below a 3.0, and he found that first semester freshman are statistically more likely to get a 0.0 than they are to get a 4.0. I don’t know if this is specific to my school or not, but our 6 year graduation rate is only 48%.</p>
<p>My English class had 40 students at the beginning and by end of the year there was 3 students</p>
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Sounds like your university’s classes are pretty easy…not all of us have our grades padded by stuff like that.</p>
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<p>That’s a large generalization. Some classes are easy. Others are tough. Even though some classes may have attendance as part of the grade, that doesn’t make a class ‘easy’.</p>
<p>I also don’t know how many classes at my university actually take attendance. I just happen to be in classes where they almost all do. It might be different next semester.</p>
<p>3.5 is okay right?</p>