<p>I'm used to the good ol' grade inflation of high school.</p>
<p>Obviously, a 4.0 is good. But where do most students draw the line of what is considered "competitive?"</p>
<p>And please try to give me a university-wide answer, none of that "well it depends on your major" stuff (even though it's true). I want a broad generalization.</p>
<p>So first assuming a “good” GPA is one that can make you a good competitive candidate for graduate school (including med/law), I would say a 3.7 or above in one of the engineering or science majors would fit that definition.
As far as humanity majors go, the grading curve is not as consistent and there are some majors that are challenging but others are a joke. So 3.7 might not mean much in certain majors.
Business majors have hard prereqs but Haas classes are not that hard to get an A- in. So a 3.7 isn’t that difficult but getting a 3.9 or 4.0 in Haas is probably just as hard as any science class.</p>
<p>here’s my take (probably inaccurate) and there might be someone to post the average GPAs by major but…</p>
<p>anything biology-like: 3.5+
smart non-science type and more well known science departments (chem/ChemE/EECS/math/etc): 3.3+
humanities/social science: if you’re not cutting a 3.7/3.8 you probably don’t have a pulse</p>
<p>^ humanities/social science is such a broad category that it’s difficult to pinpoint any single appropriate GPA cut-off. Subjectivity further adds to the complication of what constitutes a competitive GPA in those fields…</p>
<p>3.7 i would say is good</p>
<p>How does that make sense when MCB has a lower avg GPA than most engineering majors like EECS and chemE?</p>
<p>maybe cause most MCB students are pre-med which means for them a good gpa is in the 3.7+ range to have a good shot at med school while most engineers don’t need that. Also EECS is more difficult to get into than L&S and one could make the argument that the average EECS major is academically stronger than the average MCB major (although definitely debatable) mainly because most students who enter college who don’t really know what they want to do are either pre-medicine or pre-buisness while nearly all EECS students have at least dabbled in programming before they entered college.</p>
<p>id say 3.8+ is impressive</p>