Do you have a Strong GPA?

<p>The average college GPA is 3.30, do you exceed this by at least one standard deviation?</p>

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<p>My GPA can bench 6 metric tons, so what do you think?</p>

<p>Also, learn to read graphs. The average GPA is (was in 2006-2007) 3.11.</p>

<p>well I have a 3.1 so I’m at the average for a public school.</p>

<p>That’s interesting that grades at public schools are lower, I would think it would be the opposite.</p>

<p>Haha, that’s my GPA at the moment. I could have had a 3.5 at the end of this semester, but I screwed up uberly.</p>

<p>The highest GPA I can graduate with now is 3.69 or something like that. That’s if I get all A’s in my last 2 years. I predict I will graduate with a 3.5.</p>

<p>actually there was an article recently about private schools and inflating gpa over the past several decades. I’ll try to find it, kind of interesting…</p>

<p>Edit:
[Want</a> a Higher G.P.A.? Go to a Private College - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Want a Higher G.P.A.? Go to a Private College - The New York Times”>Want a Higher G.P.A.? Go to a Private College - The New York Times)</p>

<p>Where’s the distribution or at least a standard deviation?</p>

<p>i have a 6.9 gpa.</p>

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<p>why? the private schools gotta keep students from failing 2 get the tuition money. public schools receive money from The State and as such are less concerned with getting everybody to pay for four years.</p>

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<p>I don’t really know how accurate that graph is. I have seen that article myself, but taking the average accounts for many many majors that certain schools might not have an thus be unfair. Public schools tend to have more engineering programs, which are more difficult to have a higher GPA than other majors, comparing a technical school to an LAC for example. Where technical schools are typically publicly funded and LACs are typically private funded.</p>

<p>I just don’t see the point in comparing GPAs in general. GPAs vary from school to school based on grading standards and cutoffs. i.e. at my state school a B+ is a 3.5 and there are no A-s, while at my own college (an many others) a B+ is a 3.3 and an A- is a 3.7. GPA is really meaningless once you hit a certain point and there are no universal “good” GPAs. I think the point is just to try your best and most importantly learn - which is a point in college that I feel that sorely been taken away.</p>

<p>I agree, it is very difficult to compare GPA’s and that many college students have lost sight of what is valuable. However, I do find the trends at the very least interesting. Undergrad GPA may be hard to compare because of variations in schools but grad programs and jobs (to a lesser degree) do it all the time.</p>

<p>Folks, like it or not, GPA is the official proxy for Intelligence. Earning Top Grades signifies that you are Intelligent and can handle more complex stuff.</p>

<p>what are your stats whistle?</p>

<p>I am above answering that.</p>

<p>That’s code for “I’m failing” where I come from.</p>

<p>pm me yourr facebook page</p>

<p>I have a 10.9 GPA (not joking), clearly I exceed these paltry averages.</p>

<p>I have a 3.2. Not good enough for me. Could be much better if I worked harder. IDK I think getting a 3.0 in college is easy and if you are below, you are doing something wrong/in the wrong major.</p>

<p>Currently, I have a 0 GPA because it resets every time I transfer. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>At my two previous schools, though, I did have strong GPAs. One was 3.9+ and the other was 3.8+. Ultimately though, after your first job nobody gives a crap about your college GPA. In fact, your first job might not even care. It depends on your major and what sort of work you’re going for.</p>

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<p>Done and done.</p>

<p>I haven’t played baseball in years and I don’t remember what my gross production average was. But there’s no way it was above .350–I was a slugger so my OBP was pretty low.</p>