<p>Anyone know Fordham's average GPA? I don't mean the GPA of students entering, but the current students.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what the overall average GPA is of current students. However I did find this link: [Fordham</a> University - Fordham Business School - MSN Encarta](<a href=“http://encarta.msn.com/colleges_701828235/fordham_university.html]Fordham”>http://encarta.msn.com/colleges_701828235/fordham_university.html)</p>
<p>It says that the average GPA of Fordham’s business school is 3.18. Please post if you find more information, as I’d be interested to know.</p>
<p>Statistics
School Type: Private
Enrollment: 1,548
Average Age: 28.00
Average Work Exp. (month): 66.00
Average GMAT: 595
GMAT Range (25-75%): 540-670
Average UGrad GPA: 3.18
Regular Application Deadline: 06/01
Rolling Admission: Yes</p>
<p>Wait, are those stats for grad school??</p>
<p>halopower015, that’s the way I take it. Wish I had more concrete information, but that’s the best I’ve found so far.</p>
<p>Let me answer this question this way. There is some grade deflation at Fordham, particularly for students who come from prep schools or high schools with notoriously high grade inflation. Fordham ranks its students. You will find out how well you are doing relative to your classmates after the first semester when gpa and rankings come out. But you should also know that some majors and courses are not as tough as others and there are the ubiquitous “tough professors” who think that A’s are for truly extraordinary scholarship and not usually for freshmen. Should that govern your decision to come to Fordham or not? No. There is grade deflation at many colleges. And tough professors as well. And comparing your scholarship to others is superficial. Hard work generally pays off very well at Fordham. There will be a rather clear separation of the wheat from the chaff quite early. Those who study hard and work hard will float to the top and the rest will muddle around in the middle or lower. </p>
<p>Don’t presume that only math/science/engineering courses are the tough ones. You might be very surprised. </p>
<p>Finally, if you do your best and give it your utmost in effort both in class and homework or research papers, then that is all you can ask of yourself. There will always be someone smarter “down the hall”. Focus on your own personal objectives and the content of what you are learning, not the superficial grades and gpa’s. The best professors are often the most demanding and toughest graders.</p>
<p>endlessrecession, what rankings are you talking about? Where did you find them? I’ve been @ Fordham for some time and never saw them on Oasis.</p>
<p>Collegeboard.com says this:</p>
<p>The Current Class of Freshman’s GPA on a 4.0 scale:
3.75+ … 35%
3.5-3.75… 26%
3.25-3.5… 17%
3.0-3.25… 14%
2.5-3.0… 6%</p>
<p>and you can’t read the numbers lower than 2.5… Good Luck!</p>
<p><em>cough</em>grade inflation<em>cough</em></p>
<p>I second ein1. I’ve never seen a single ranking either.</p>
<p>In the beginning of the year they told us that the average GPA for the freshmen business students is a C+</p>
<p>Freshman year I had a talk with an English professor who told me that the freshman get on average a 2.7 GPA. Anything above that for the first semester is pretty good coming in and adjusting to the workload.</p>
<p>Also, Fordham has ranked students for the past few years now (at least so long as I’ve been there 3yrs counting now). Basically if you were to go into OASIS, at the end of the school year (not the end of the first semester in the school year), Fordham will rank your cumulative GPA to all other students in your class. It’s a neat feature that goes unnoticed by most students. To get to it in OASIS you have to look at your unofficial transcript. Check out below the second semester of year school year (after each spring semester).</p>
<p>All it says there is “Dean’s List.”</p>
<p>Yea and right below that it should have your class rank. I’m in CBA so I don’t know if it’s a CBA thing only though I doubt it since you also have the Dean’s List note on your transcript.</p>
<p>Ah, I see. I’ll have to look for that next time. It would be nice if they did it by major, though.</p>
<p>2.7 and a C+? thats pretty low. are you guys sure? does it mean like only 5% of the freshman class get 3.5 or above?</p>
<p>it’s not low for freshmen. it’s their first semester. there’s an adjustment period.</p>