<p>I am wondering how hard it is to maintain a good GPA at Davis as a freshman. Like for a 3.3, how hard is it? My major would be history or english.</p>
<p>This is an impossible question for anyone to answer. We have no idea what type of school you are in now, and what easy is to you. Post your personal stats please. Also I would not plan on any UC being easy, except perhaps in the lowest tier. (UCR, UCSC, or UCM) Even these schools could be a challenge if you are a less than dedicated student.</p>
<p>Really impossible to say w/ any certainty. However, for someone who has taken a heavy HS courseload ( mostly all honors and APS) and who tests well, it should be fine. ( Meaning, a 3.3 show be doable without undue stress). However, they do calculate the minuses in your GPA and that can bring you down.</p>
<p>i think he\she means compared to other top schools, like wharton for eample has an infamous curve and cutt throat feeling and the workload can hurt all of those factors are a gpa killer.... does davis have any of these characteristics</p>
<p>no, 3.3 is no problem. With hard work, its a variation of 3.7-4.0</p>
<p>When I came to the US, I looked at people who had 4.8-5.0 GPA in HS as at Gods, I thought they are extremely smart and stuff. After 1 year and 5 months in the US I ended up having 4.67 GPA and I understood the main idea. No matter how smart you are, through dedication and hard work you'll be able to get any GPA you want. A lot of people here tell that 3.8-4.0 is like almost impossible, but I just ignore these posts. It's all about your dedication in school.</p>
<p>My college counselor told me that Davis doesn't give away grades. It may have a less competitive student body than Cal, but by no means can you coast.</p>
<p>In Man. Econ., I know there is a concerted effort to avoid grade inflation by the faculty. Average GPA is probably around B-....2.7 or 2.8 in undergrad classes. </p>
<p>Average GPA for undergrads at UCD overall was somewhere around 2.7 the last time I checked. </p>
<p>A 3.8 really means something at UCD, it is not an everyday GPA.</p>
<p>Funny, I was just reading a report done by CAL ( but it is outdated) ranking schools as to how hard it is to get an "A" there. Davis was ranked equal to UCLA ( both lower than CAL...ie less difficult to get an "A")</p>
<p>Is it online. Do you have a link to it?</p>
<p>Anothercollegemom, Do you have a link to that report? It sounds interesting..</p>
<p>Good question, collegemom16! Lol, we posted at the same time (:</p>
<p>It was on some other forum on this site. I'll have to look around and see if I can find it again. But i must reiterate it is outdated !</p>
<p>Here is the info from the posting. Sorry, but there was no link.
In 1997 UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law
did a ranking of the toughest schools to get an "A".</p>
<p>Are they still ranking the schools accordingly?</p>
<p>The L.A. Times ran an article 7/16/97 "Grading the Grades:
All A's Are Not Created Equal "on how the admissions dept.
from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall re-formulated the law school's
applicant's G.P.A. The formula ranked each college
according to how its students perform on the standardized
law board exam, the LSAT, and how common a certain
G.P.A. is at that school.</p>
<p>The following is UC Berkeley's rankings of toughest schools
to get an "A"</p>
<p>Swarthmore 89.5
Williams 89.0
Duke 88.5
Carleton 88.0
Colgate 88.0
J. Hopkins 87.5
Chicago 87.0
Dartmouth 87.0
Wesleyan 87.0
Cornell 86.5
Harvard 86.5
Middlebury 86.0
Princeton 86.0
Bates 85.5
MIT 85.5
Haverford 85.0
Pomona 85.0
Virginia 85.0
Amherst 84.5
Reed 84.5
Vanderbilt 84.5
Wm & Mary 84.5
Bowdoin 83.5
Tufts 83.5
Vassar 83.5
Bryn Mawr 83.0
Hamilton 83.0
Oberlin 83.0
Rice 83.0
U. Pennsylvania 83.0
Clrmt. McK. 82.5
Yale 82.5
Brandeis 82.0
Northwestern 82.0
Colby 81.5
Michigan 81.5
Notre Dame 81.5
Wash. U. 81.0
Barnard 80.5
Columbia 80.5
Stanford 80.5
Brown 80.0
Georgetown 80.0
Smith 80.0
Wellesley 80.0
Emory 79.5
U. North Carolina 79.5
Whitman C. 79.5
Rochester 79.0
UC Berkeley 78.5
UC San Diego 78.5
Illinois 78.0
SUNY Bing 78.0
Texas 78.0
Trinity U. 77.5
Boston College 77.0
UC S. Barbara 77.0
Wisconsin 77.0
Florida 76.5
U. Washington 76.5
Santa Clara 76.0
Geo. Wash. 75.5
UC Davis 75.5
UCLA 75.5
Colorado 75.0
Michigan State 75.0
Boston University 74.5
Cal Poly SLO 74.5
Massachusetts 74.0
Penn State 74.0
Iowa 73.5
Purdue 73.5
SMU 73.5
SUNY Albany 73.5
BYU 73.0
Minnesota 73.0
Ohio State 73.0
Oregon 73.0
UC Irvine 73.0
Indiana 72.5
NYU 72.0
SUNY Buff 72.0
SUNY Stony 72.0
Mills 71.5
American 71.0
Arizona 71.0
Loyola Mary. 71.0
Maryland 71.0
Fordham 70.5
Kansas 70.0
Syracuse 70.0
USC 70.0
Arizona St. 69.5
CS San Diego 69.5
Catholic U. 69.5
Oklahoma 69.5
Pacific 69.5
Hofstra 69.0
UC Riverside 68.5
Utah 68.5
CS Chico 68.5
Miami 68.0
New Mexico 68.0
San Diego 68.0
CS Northridge 67.0
Pepperdine 67.0
CS San Fran. 66.0
CS Sacramento 65.0
Hawaii 64.5
Denver 63.5
CS Fullerton 63.0
CS Hayward 63.0
CS Long Beach 63.0
CS San Jose 63.0
CS Fresno 62.5
St. Mary's 61.5
CCNY 59.0
CS LA 58.5
Howard 57.5
San Francisco 57.5</p>
<p>Thanks anothercollegemom that is fascinating. It would be interesting to know if there is such a rating that is current.</p>
<p>Hooray4Davis great minds think alike ;)</p>