<p>What is a common GPA to receive at UT? Is it hard to make a 3.5?</p>
<p>Apparently not in McCombs. </p>
<p>[Average</a> GPA of B.B.A. Graduation Class by Semester](<a href=“http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/resources/stats/stats/statsAvgGpaSem.asp]Average”>http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/udean/resources/stats/stats/statsAvgGpaSem.asp)</p>
<p>The info for the other schools is online too but I don’t remember where. If memory serves me correctly, the average GPA for graduates in other schools was around the 3.0 mark. </p>
<p>How easy is it to make a 3.5 at UT? That depends on what your major is. What are you interested in?</p>
<p>as an undeclared liberal arts sophomore…I’m trying to xfer internally to Communications for spring '10</p>
<p>I have a 4.0.
I believe it depends on how much time you put into studying and preparing for tests/assignments. If you do the work, you will make the grade.</p>
<p>It also comes down to utilizing UT’s resources if you are struggling. If you are in English Rhetoric classes and completely stuck, try the writing center. For any other discipline, try the UT Learning Center.</p>
<p>If anyone can find the Avg. GPA for other programs please post the link.</p>
<p>yeah i would love to know also if there is any inflation or deflation going on. I am sure engineering majors gpa would be lower due to harder classes. How about students in natural science??</p>
<p>Ya I agree with Allica, the UT Learning Center and especially the Undergraduate Writing Center (Lisa Leit is an amazing director) are great places to help students, even if you’re not struggling.</p>
<p>To me it would make sense for ut to publish average GPAs for each school, but I can’t seem to find anything online.</p>
<p>One reason for this is that UT Austin has elected to go to a plus/minus grading scale this coming fall.(which is something I really don’t agree with…) So UT may have pulled its internet-published data in order to prepare for a new set of data.</p>
<p>It really doesn’t matter what the average GPA is within the schools though, because whether you are an engineer or education major, there will always be people that excel and always be people that fail.
I know engineers with 4.0s, but I also know some with far far less impressive ones.</p>
<p>You can see the GPAs for freshman on this link, sorted by top ten percent or not, SAT scores, race, and by the college they are enrolled in. My only question about this data is where did the students in McCombs come from who are freshman who are NOT in the top ten percent. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report11.pdf</a></p>
<p>I believe they came from schools that didn’t rank (e.g., private schools).</p>
<p>I’ve a relative who graduate UT 20 years ago and he said the average GPA for those who graduated was around 2.7. or 2.8 and that only 62%-65% of freshmen graduated. </p>
<p>The average SAT score (normalized over time) at UT hasn’t really changed in 20 years, but there are a lot more “Top 10%” high school grads as higher achieving suburban high school kids have been pushed away to make room for poor urban and rural students.</p>
<p>Grade inflation is rampant apparently.</p>
<p>As of last semester, the all-university GPA is 3.25. The all-men’s average is 3.20 and I believe the all-women’s GPA is 3.29. The all-fraternity GPA was 3.06.</p>
<p>Last fall, the all-university average was a 3.13, the all-fraternity average a 3.1, and the all-men’s average a 3.06. In 2006, the all-university average was 3.11, the all-fraternity average a 3.1, and the all-men’s average a 3.04.</p>
<p>Sources:
<a href=“http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/downloads/2008IFCgradereport.pdf[/url]”>http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/downloads/2008IFCgradereport.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/downloads/2007IFCgradereport.pdf[/url]”>http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/downloads/2007IFCgradereport.pdf</a>
<a href=“http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/downloads/2006IFCgradereport.pdf[/url]”>http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/downloads/2006IFCgradereport.pdf</a></p>
<p>According to LSAC, UT Austin is one of the thirty hardest universities to get a good GPA in and UT students who apply for grad school often have test scores that are better than applicants with similar GPAs from most schools.</p>
<p>The McCombs average is higher than most colleges on campus because they have access to very competitive opportunities and are usually most able/motivated to stay on top of the curves. The classes that bring down other major’s GPAs are the ones that business students need to use to bring theirs up.</p>
<p>what is bad about the +/- system?</p>
<p>It is hard enough to make A’s in many classes. With the +/- system, it became much harder. I was the king of the 90% average. Instead of a 90, I now need a 93. With my classes consisting of upper division math, keeping my GPA high (as high as I’m used to and want it) just became nearly impossible. No one I know with a high GPA is in favor of it. UT forces it on us due to crap about peer institutions. Weren’t we taught not to bow down to the pressure from peers? :)</p>
<p>I’m very interested in knowing how the new +/- scale will affect the McComb’s internal transfer gpa cut off. In the classes that I should have an A in (90+) I now have an A- in because its not a 93, or in the case of my sociology class, a 94. The new scale really helps if you are doing terrible in a class though.</p>
<p>is a perfect gpa still 4.0?
or is it now 4.33?</p>
<p>That is actually what alot of people are unhappy about. If going to a +/- system, then an A+ should be worth 4.33. However, it is not. The max grade that can be made is 4.0</p>
<p>I don’t see what there is to be unhappy about - I know of no universities that have more than a 4.0 GPA grading scale, with the only exception being Stanford, but they don’t release their 4.33 GPA outside of the university, it’s internal only. The Ivies, USC, the UC System, Johns Hopkins, all of the unis in TX (except Tech, but their 100 point scale is easily converted and equivalent), et. al. - they all are on a 4.0 scale, even when they use the +/- system. </p>
<p>The inflated and varying scales are almost strictly a high school (and in some regions junior high) thing. The 100 point scales are fading out quickly, and even Harvard switched from their 15-point scale to the standard 4 point one a few years back, but that really wasn’t anything similar to the 4.0+ scale everyone got accustomed too in high school.</p>
<p>so if you got 2x A+ and 2x A- would you get a 4.0 or a 3.84?</p>