<p>I was accepted to U of R and I'm pre-med so Rochester is obviously a good choice for me. However, I was also accepted to BU and the prospect of going to Boston is really enticing. I went to a nationally ranked high school and feel as though I could have done much better than my 3.67 hs gpa. My goal for college, although lofty, is to have a 4.0 gpa. I was wondering how hard is U of R and how likely is it to get a 4.0 or atleat something around 3.85. Of course all schools are competitive, but assuming one works hard - what are the chances of achieving that high a gpa?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Getting a 4.0 GPA is hard whereever you go. Getting a 4.0 at Rochester as a pre-med is damn near impossible (same at any decent school). But you don't need a 4.0 to get into med school. Assuming one works hard, your grades will show it and your professors will notice. </p>
<p>I'm workin hard now, pre-med - with a 3.8 GPA. Its tough but I'm in one piece and still goin strong...it hasnt been easy though.</p>
<p>It's about impossible to guess how somebody will do at a college without considering their SAT/ACT scores, high school average, quality of high school and course rigor. If you choose a college where you place in the top quarter in things like SAT and grades then it seems to me that you will have a good chance at a high college GPA. However, if you choose a "reach" college where you just about sqeaked in, then you probably won't do as well. So, you have to know yourself and where you place among other students applying to a college. This becomes particularly important when considering things like pre-med.</p>
<p>Bern- you are completely misguided in your statement. Those have nothing to do with how well you are going to do in college. College is completely different- you could have done poorly in high school and do very well in college or you could have done very well in high school and do very poorly in college.</p>
<p>Okay. I mean it's true that some people who do poorly in high school and poorly on their SATs turn out to do well in college and it goes the other way too with people who do well in high school doing poorly in college. However, the law of large numbers says that by and large people as a whole don't change that much. That's how college admissions makes selections. Otherwise everybody can apply to Harvard and there would be no way to determine who should get acceptances.</p>