<p>You’re upset about a 3.75? </p>
<p>GPA doesn’t correlate with test scores. At all. It’s been proven.</p>
<p>Well you could have a really tough HS grading wise where kids are getting 3.3s but 31s on the ACT.</p>
<p>Or a really lax HS where kids get 4.0+s and 25s</p>
<p>Or just smart lazy kids with sub 3 GPAs but 30s on the ACT</p>
<p>Etc etc</p>
<p>People studied for the ACT? lol</p>
<p>Just do better second semester, then next year, then yext near etc cte</p>
<p>Most top 25 schools have average GPAs of 3.0-3.2</p>
<p>And we can probbaly assume that most of the students at top 25 are smart. It also often depends on the rigor of a college. A top school is going to be harder than a random school.</p>
<p>^ I’m not sure if you can generalize rigor. From the students I’ve heard about, Beloit was more difficult than their grad programs at Harvard and Yale. A girl I talked to who went to the Uchicago grad school for social work liked Beloit better. I haven’t looked at top schools’ GPA’s, but what would a low average even mean? Deflation? To me it seems odd that the world’s smartest studied enough to get a B average. If the standards are higher, then why couldn’t the world’s smartest handle them? I mean, there’s only so much info a brain can hold before it explodes, right? That’s how I feel. A paper can only be graded so hard - I guess I don’t understand. Unless the work done by students is sub-par, why wouldn’t profs give A’s?</p>
<p>I mean, none of my exams were multiple choice…none of my tests were multiple choice, even. You all should see my Spanish final…I’ve never seen so much red in my life. The standards are high and Beloit isn’t even a “top 50,” if you go by USNWR standards, FWIW. My Spanish final was bleeding red, and my prof spent hours editing it, I bet. The pickiest teacher I’ve ever had, though I’m really glad that he cares this much.</p>
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<p>I don’t believe this. Do you have a source?</p>
<p>rbouwens–I went to one of those lowly state schools and guess what, none of my exams were multiple choice either. Not a single one in 4 years was multiple choice. Many of my exams were also ‘bleeding red,’ Beloit isn’t any more special than any other school. In addition, grad school is generally meant to be ‘easier’ than undergrad, as you’re not taking as many classes. You’re supposed to be doing research and writing your thesis, classes are a minor, minor part of most grad programs. </p>
<p>Professors don’t HAVE to give an A to a single person in their class, if that is their choice. I had a professor who gave out exactly 5 A’s in a 70 person class, whether there were 20 kids who scored in the ‘A’ range or not. Does that mean those other 15 kids didn’t produce ‘A’ quality work? No, the professor decided that there were only 5 worthy of his ‘A’, and that was that. In addition, many professors score their classes on a bell curve, where ‘B’ is the most common grade. The standards are, in fact, higher, but only X number of students can get each grade. Most students have to get a B, some a C, or even a D.</p>
<p>I don’t think rb was implying that Beloit was anymore “special” than yours or any other state school. In fact, I believe the point of the post was to defend lower ranked schools in general since people tend to lump all schools below the top 50 or so ( according a USnews) into the not good enough category</p>
<p>rbouwens - The competition that occurs between top schools and other schools are very different. Most top schools limit how many As they can give out per class. In my chemistry class, only the top 12% were allowed to get A/A-, then the other 25% were around Bs and the rest were C or lower. You’re competing with the smartest people in the world for an A. This year, I had almost perfect grades in chemistry but I was curved down 4pts moving me from an A to an A- because the grades were too high that year.</p>
<p>It’s very different competing against the smartest people in the world. At most unranked schools, people from CC are probably the big fish in a little pond while at the top schools, everyone is a little fish in an ocean.</p>
<p>I would say a 3.2 but just from knowing the nature of college confidential everyone is probably saying 3.8 and 3.9 lol</p>
<p>remember “it’s not about the grades you make, it’s about the hands you shake”. some person can have a 4.0 but if their personality sucks and they cant even hold a conversation for an interview there’s no way they’re getting that job over some person who has a 3.2 GPA and is very social and good at interviewing. once you get that first job, other jobs can give two craps about your GPA in college</p>
<p>but it’s important for grad school…</p>
<p>^ For anthro, field work is almost as important as GPA. Depending on the specific field, sometimes more.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s important. But it is NOT as important as you seem to think.</p>
<p>For business it definitely is. My friend got a 4.0 but did make it through the interview process for an internship but I got an internship with only a 3.46. I would say it had to do heavily with our personalities.</p>