<p>This is a question for either past acceptances/current students, or current ED acceptances:</p>
<p>A lot of you guys post your stats and stuff in the results pages, or chances pages, but I was wondering if any of you would be able to offer a more definite breakdown of your transcript/gpa. For instance, did you have absolutely straight A's all four years? Mostly A's with some A- and occasional B+ mixed in? That sort of stuff.</p>
<p>For anyone willing to help, thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I got in ED. I just looked at my transcript. I had one B and one A-, both sophomore year. Everything else was A or A+ and my unweighted is 4.02. I really think though that more B+s and A-s are fine though. If you want, I can tell you the classes I've taken and grades in each one. </p>
<p>I do think though that grades are looked at in the context of your school and course rigor. Sometimes class ranking and the difficulty of your classes can reveal more than GPA.</p>
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I do think though that grades are looked at in the context of your school and course rigor. Sometimes class ranking and the difficulty of your classes can reveal more than GPA.
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<p>Precisely. GPA is quite meaningless in a vacuum. People on here post their GPA in chances threads as if it means something, and it doesn't without any context.</p>
<p>I think GPAs are irrelevant when you are comparing from one school to the other. Two from the same school, then it might mean something.</p>
<p>Viva, is your school competitive/difficult? </p>
<p>Also, if you'd be willing to post your class list, I would love to see it :) </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I had a fairly low GPA (relatively speaking by what most people post here) by the the time i applied to columbia, something like 3.8-3.85 uw but i took 3 ap classes soph, 5 jr year, and 4 sr year and a few of those i got B's in. wasnt really a big deal i guess...</p>
<p>Is 3.8 UW a low GPA for top colleges!?</p>
<p>Hm, I posted my stuff up but it felt kind of weird. I'll PM you with what I originally put up, soryusen. And no, in my humble opinion, 3.8 is not a low GPA.</p>
<p>again, like people say, it depends on what you take. and i only say its low because so often on these boards 3.9-4.0 is what you normally see in "chances" threads</p>
<p>I see. But regardless of all the 3.9's and 4.0's, a GPA around 3.8 UW is certainly competitive at top schools, right?</p>
<p>Once again, we don't know. If a 3.8 UW is the highest GPA at your school, you would be ranked 1 and that would be very competitive. If a 3.8 UW puts you in the 2nd decile of students, it wouldn't be very competitive at all.</p>
<p>Well, at my school the highest GPA is around 4.2 W, and mine is a 3.97 W, and there are a bunch of kids clustered right around the 10% area. Regardless, I'm right around the top 10-12%. Does that make me competitive, then?</p>
<p>Yet another thread where I feel compelled to mention:</p>
<p>I got in with a 3.3 UW. it took a load of effort to do so, though, involving getting a full-time job to prove i actually had a work ethic and some maturity.</p>
<p>my point is, columbia is looking for a whole lot more than a student who did well in their classes in high school. rather than worrying about a tenth of a point here or there, worry about what kind of person you are, and how to "sell" that to the admissions committee. This is a sales job, after all.</p>