<p>What is the range? Is 3.0 average? Or most have A & A- and Bs and below are select few. This is for current and previous Bears.</p>
<p>First semester of my freshman year, A&S had an average of 3.5 if I remember right. Dunno about Eng</p>
<p>For Arts and Sciences, I believe that average is 3.4ish. In chem/bio, the median grade tends to be a B.</p>
<p>My freshman year, a 3.3 was dead average/ the median for engineering students.</p>
<p>This was quite a few years ago though, so take that as you will (I really don’t think it’s changed much).</p>
<p>(FTR, I had exactly a 3.3, and was the exact middle of the pack when rankings were released).</p>
<p>Johnson, out of curiosity, how has the name of WashU influenced you after college (assuming you are out of college)? Do people really respect it as an engineering school?</p>
<p>I’m graduating in May (BS/MS’ing), but I can say that the name was highly respected at both of the places I interned/co-op’ed in industry, and it’s how I just walked into research at a university back home after my sophomore year.</p>
<p>I already have a job lined up for post graduation, and the guy who interviewed me had the quick pause of “wow” when discussing education. And this is for an engineering position in the SF Bay, so not even in the midwest.</p>
<p>For a lot of people, it’s frustrating that so few people actually know of WashU (ie your next door neighbor). But as has been said on this board over and over, the people who matter do know.</p>
<p>4Bs and 2As freshman fall 18u looking at Science/Eng majors. Thought that was good for being the first semester in college in a highly difficult coursework. That is before an email from the 4 year advisor recommending to drop 1 or 2 courses for spring. Taking 18u again. Thinking of ignoring the advice unless the grades reflect doing really bad compared to peers. Is that a mistake?
@johnson181…they rank the students, when does it come out?</p>
<p>If you tell us the courses you took last semester and the courses you want to take this semester, it’ll be easier to tell you if 18 credits is a good idea.</p>
<p>I mean, you probably got around a 3.3-3.4, right? Maybe a little lower. So, you aren’t doing that poorly compared to everyone else. That being said, it might be easier to take only 15 or so credits? I guess it depends if you felt overwhelmed at all? If you felt like you didn’t have enough time to put in as much effort as you wanted into each class? 15 credits per semester isn’t bad, especially if they’re all difficult science/engineering courses.</p>
<p>FL - rankings will be added to the unofficial transcript on webstac sometime before the spring semester starts (at the same time dean’s list notifications go out).</p>
<p>Studied a whole lot but still had time for friends, going around STL, a few ECs, work study, and still slept a few hours. Fall-chem, phys, math, writ, and hum. Sp-chem, phys, math, cs, and SS. Really felt good before email from advisor. Sure…taking less classes will make it easier on all areas but did you? Thanks for the replies. It sounds like I am not doing too bad from your postings.</p>
<p>Well, if you’re happy with your grades, and felt the workload was manageable, then I think you’re fine to take 18 if you want.</p>
<p>Ryan,
How are the letter grade and GPA work at WashU? Is it 90% or above 4.0 and so on like in the High school?</p>
<p>If 90% was the cutoff for an A, I don’t think anyone would ever get one in a science course :p</p>
<p>In all seriousness, most of the hard sciences grade on a curve. The professor will wait until final grades and create cutoff a such that around X percent of the class gets an A, Y percent gets a B etc. there are a couple which have pre-set cutoffs, but they’re usually like 75% not 90%.</p>
<p>Additionally, “minuses” are worth “-.3”. So an A- would be worth 3.7. “Pluses” are worth “+.3”, so a B+ is worth 3.3. Unfortunately, A+ is only a 4.0 though</p>
<p>Thanks. That is good to know.
This means A, B, C are 4.00, 3.00, 2.00 respectively.</p>
<p>Yep, that’s the case!</p>