<p>how hard is it get >3.50 GPA at Northwestern?
is it possible to get 4.0??</p>
<p>what is the average gpa?</p>
<p>northwestern has grade inflation.
yes, it's possible to get 4.0 and <em>some</em> people do get them.</p>
<p>average GPA? not sure..i recall reading something like 3.3-3.4 (don't expect that for premed science courses though).</p>
<p>what is the GPA like for pre-med students?</p>
<p>The average is a 3.4 here?</p>
<p>Aww shucks :(</p>
<p>what would you expect it to be for a pre-med student</p>
<p>its certainly possible to get a 3.5, it has a lot to do with yourself and what courses you take. the school keeps track of the average gpa's of the different frats, and some houses i believe had above a 3.5</p>
<p>how about NU economics major? is it hard to get high GPA??</p>
<p>for BME, it's like 2.6 average lol</p>
<p>^that's a joke...</p>
<p>^^ I wonder if it's even a 2.6 at a really bad state school... Hahaha</p>
<p>mmm...i highly doubt that the grade inflation thing is true, specially for engineering</p>
<p>Hmm... then what's the average for engineering? I heard that Industrial Engineering is much easier than the other types of engineering, so the average for them is much higher. Is this true?</p>
<p>I'd imagine it would be somewhere in the 3.0 range for all of the engineerings...</p>
<p>People at NU aren't stupid, and with 90% of those going on to higher education getting into their choice of law/med/business schools I doubt it is too low.</p>
<p>Engineering gpa is also ~3.4 . Engineering majors here whine when their classes aren’t curved to a B average or above, as if they deserve a passable grade without having done any work. But really, most classes
do ge curved to a B average and people do end up with inflated GPA’s in engineering.</p>
<p>the grade inflation topic is debatable depending on the department. one of my chemistry profs gave out only 10 A’s (A and A- combined) in a class of ~200, and I know at least 10 people who were at or slightly below avg. that got C+ so it’s not like the median grade was very high. but that’s chemistry for you.</p>
<p>^ I had a poly sci teacher last quarter who had a policy that no more than 10% of students could get an A on any given test, no more than 10% could get an A-, and no more than 10% could get a B+. He said this was done in order to check grade inflation. This is the only professor like this I’ve had so far, though.</p>
<p>Yea and I had a class where 70% of the class got A- or better. The prof also set the bottom of the bell curve at B-.</p>
<p>If all you care about is GPA, then there are classes for that.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, it’s nonsense to say what GPAs are “easy to get”. You have do better than NU students…who almost universally have 1400+ SAT scores and were at the very least top 10% of their HS class. </p>
<p>If you’re good at taking classes, you’re fine. If you aren’t, then you aren’t.</p>
<p>Wow. I thought the average would be higher. Then again a 3.5 is just half your classes as Bs. Is this really seen as an elite GPA?</p>
<p>^lol you’ll see how hard it is to get A’s when you come to college…:'(</p>