<p>Does Tulane publish the average GPA of the Freshman class anywhere. Or is it possible to get that information from the college or program. Final grades are in, I think he did fine, but he was hoping/thinking he would do better. Chemistry was more of a hurdle for him than he expected, both semesters, but it's out of the way now as his engineering major only requires the two semesters of chemistry with lab. The A, A-, B+, B, B- etc.. grading scale was a novelty to him, but once he adjusted to it, I think he likes it better. He was highly insulted when he finally realized that at his high school, his 89 in Pre-AP Geometry ended up with the same 3.0 as a classmates' 80 in grade level Geometry (HS only weighted AP classes with 3 pts), so though Tulane doesn't weight honors classes over the non-honors option, at least an 89 counts for more than an 80. He says none of his professors mention an average GPA, he knows many of his friends that do not hold majors in science/engineering have higher GPA's, and while he says he realizes that at just about every school engineering majors have a lower GPA, I get the feeling he thinks if he was really as smart as he thought he was, he, himself, personally, would have a higher GPA. I know he's thought about emailing the program head and asking what the average freshman GPA in engineering is, but at the same time, he's almost afraid to ask for fear it's much higher than his. But if it was online somewhere then he could look at it, without putting himself in the position of having the dean say, well, yours is a little low.</p>
<p>Hi Scribbulus,</p>
<p>I’m a Chemical Engineering major and just finished my Junior year. I wouldn’t let your son be discouraged, the Engineering majors here at Tulane are arguably three of the toughest programs in the University. There’s a HUGE difference between typical GPAs for Engineering majors and their non-Engineer counterparts.</p>
<p>Though I don’t know of any hard-and-fast statistic on the “average freshman Engineering GPA” I would venture to say that most of the people that have stuck with the program for the long-haul were somewhere around 3.3-3.7, with the rare stellar performers knocking it out of the park and getting 3.8+.</p>
<p>If you want to compare it with an example, my GPA stood at 3.6 after Freshman year. I’m currently at 3.24 going into my Senior year (with mostly easy electives next semester), and I’ve heard that graduating seniors with a GPA around this didn’t have too hard a time finding a job.</p>
<p>I would warn you however, that, at least with ChemE, Sophomore year took a huge step up in difficulty from Freshman year. Junior year was relatively tame compared to my second year, but still much harder than my Freshman days.</p>
<p>Perhaps some other engineers/parents of engineers can shed some light on this?</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I know one thing about College: you have to know exactly what you are doing, love what you are doing. Then you have to be enthusiastic for your major then after that work hard. If you do not have any of these things, it is kind of hand to boost your GPA or it will be a hard labor. </p>
<p>Speaking of GPA, GPA actually is an indication of your hard work. Once in-a-while you will hear people say: I dont work hard but got a good GPA. Yes, it may be true but for lots of people especially doing graduate school or engineering programs, that is not the case. They have to work hard.</p>
<p>So, my thing is: in order to get really good GPA, keeping doing what you are doing and be enthusiastic and enjoy it. Life is good.</p>
<p>Oppss I made a booboo, I meant to say: If you do not have any of these things, it is kind of hard to boost your GPA…etc. My bad.</p>