<p>Wow…really? Do you guys do this to other threads too? If you don’t care for the topic being discussed then show that you really don’t care… don’t contribute to it. Obviously since you clicked on the thread and went through it, you were curious. You even cared enough to make the effort to post that you “didn’t care” even though it clearly looks like you did.
1st semester is a new and challenging transition to college academic life. Everybody worked hard to get through it. If people want to talk about their academic success, then they are completely free to do it. A high gpa in one’s first semester is something to be proud of, there’s no need for some people to be so rude. You wouldn’t go into an admissions thread and say “wow stop bragging about your stats and your admittance… nobody cares!” would you? Show some respect…
If you have a low gpa and don’t want to post, or dont care about posting and/or knowing about other people’s gpa, then stay off the thread. Easy solution. But let other people be comfortable doing what they want to…</p>
<p>maizeandblue21 and theespys69: Is it cloudy up there? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>3.68 for my first semester</p>
<p>3.41 my first semester. Honestly, I’m thrilled because I struggled a lot this semester to balance everything that comes with college life and adjust to the high level of work in college. This gives me encouragement to keep trying next semester.</p>
<p>Roughly 3.3 from the University of Chicago.
While I love the UofC, I am highly disappointed in myself. It’s not that I didn’t work hard-believe me I did-but just that I did not know how to prepare for exams and how to study effectively.
Congrats to all the other previous posters on this thread! Though I am insanely jealous of you all. :(</p>
<p>I got a 3.2. I blame America.</p>
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<p>Hey well done.
Coming from another country, I was thrown by different study habits here. >.></p>
<p>Anyone with a GPA that starts with a 3 is doing pretty well.</p>
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Maybe your GPA is higher in metric?</p>
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<p>I assume you are making a joke, but I’m going to be a party pooper and just say that it’s very hard to translate grades to the British university grading system.
It was designed by a drunken King in 1143, and we feel no need to update it.</p>
<p>well don’t unis in the UK do a lot more essay-based stuff? if your secondary education is anything like ours (aka prepping for college) then maybe you were just more prepared for the UK style of higher ed than the US style (which seems to, at least in lower-level non-humanities classes, revolve around multiple choice).</p>
<p>Yes… I wish all my grade had been essays!</p>
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Yep, a joke. And if it was designed by a drunken King, it sounds much more like the Imperial system than the Metric system anyway.</p>
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<p>The UK uses a big mix of imperial and metric, it’s weird.
Our marks are metric (0-100) but our grades (degree classifications) aren’t anything, really. It goes 1st, 2:1, 2:2, 3rd, Pass, Fail. Is that Imperial? Lol</p>
<p>3.6 as a first semester freshman. Not perfect, but being above average at Grinnell feels pretty good.</p>
<p>Pretty sure I was the last person in the US to get back first semester grades, too. Worse, I just found out that the cutoff for the Dean’s List is a friggin’ 3.75. I guess too many people would get it if it was set at 3.5.</p>
<p>3.41 GPA
Ship Systems-A+
Physics 2-A+
Material Science-A
Calculus 3-B
Physics Lab- B
English II-B</p>
<p>3.63, college freshman</p>
<p>2 A’s, 1 B+, 1 B
Considering that I was .0 something % away from an A- in the B+, and 1.2% away from an A- with the B…I’m disappointed with myself since feel like if I had done better on just one quiz in each class I would have all A or A- v_v
Didn’t make the Deans list either (3.666+) by .03</p>
<p>^that’s why I’m glad my school doesn’t use the +/- system. I swear it must have been designed by sadists.</p>
<p>I’m glad my school just counts -/+ as the normal grade. I got a B+, 2 A-s and 2 As but I got a 3.81 (or something wacky, one of the classes was 4 credits).</p>
<p>Sadly they’re going to a normal system next year :/</p>
<p>The +/- system is annoying at my school if you’re typically in the A range, since there’s an A-, but no A+. Bs and Cs have +s, though, so those even out. In addition to an A, I had three A-s, so if they were counted as As, and my one B+ was just a B, my GPA would have been like .15 higher. But if my grades were a little lower and I had more B+s, then the +/- system would have helped me.</p>
<p>Let’s just say that sleeping through HS and getting straight A’s didn’t exactly prepare me for a real school…</p>