<p>what's a good GPA for your first frehsman semester in college?</p>
<p>I think it just depends on your school and the classes you are taking.
For example, I had a 4.0 my whole freshman year. I was able to do this because I only took a few easier classes. And, it was community college…
If I was taking a full load at a university, I would be happy with anything 3.0+
Just my opinion:)</p>
<p>anything around 3.7 is pretty good i’d say.</p>
<p>are you in college yet?</p>
<p>I would think that it depends on the coursework you are taking like Nathan0d said.
But probably anything over a 3.5 I would say.</p>
<p>I’d say a 4.0 is boiderline good GPA, depending on what college you go to. Anything less and your just throwing money away and not benefitting from your classes at all.</p>
<p>hahaha funny stuff guys. that was a typo on my part. i meant to say 2.7 or higher is decent for a freshman’s first semester.</p>
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I may be reading your post wrong, but, a 4.0 is borderline under what scale? 5.0?</p>
<p>Psycho’78- Borderline under the scale of sarcasm, perhaps.</p>
<p>Lolz. I’d say GPA is dependant on your post college plans. Im at the point where reality has hit me in the face and Im trying to decide what I can do after college.</p>
<p>If you plan on grad school. 3.2 and above should do.
If you plan to go premed, you probably wouldnt have made this post cuz all premeds freak out about GPA (Im premed, and it ranges from 3.2-4.0, but truthfully, anything short 3.4 will almost certianly spell doom).</p>
<p>ANd of course ur school matters, a community college 4.0 is similar to getting a something lower at a top tier. </p>
<p>Do your best, cuz to be honest, what could you possibly be wasting time for? Partying more than 2 days a week seems excessive even if you don’t work that much.</p>
<p>3.5 or above imo. With that, you’re pretty much going to be getting all A’s and B’s, with more A’s than B’s.</p>
<p>You’re doing well with anything above the 3.0 mark. Above 3.5 is excelling.</p>
<p>Depends… mid-3s is good. I ended up with a 3.9 freshmen year.
People vary though and, like in HS, many start out freshmen year with weak GPAs and then spend the next 3+ yrs trying to bring it back up!</p>
<p>Depends… mid-3s is good. I ended up with a 3.9 freshmen year.
People vary though and, like in HS, many start out freshmen year with weak GPAs and then spend the next 3+ yrs trying to bring it back up!</p>
<p>What would be a good GPA if a person wanted to go to an Ivy-esque grad school? Like Columbia or Georgetown or Stanford?</p>
<p>no such thing as an “Ivy-esque” grad school. grad school is very different from UG and no GPA or test score will get you in (not even an 800v/800q/6.0AWA w/ a 4.0 GPA guarantees you a spot in a program b/c grad programs are all about fit; granted… if you’re the kind of person who’s in the 99th percentile across the board, it’s unlikely you haven’t done other things while an UG that would virtually ensure your spot in a strong grad program). grad school, though, is all about finding the program that specializes in what you want to do. Unlike UG, where the name is often a big deal, there are many programs in which schools like Stanford and Harvard have weak programs (and other times where the program you need does not exist). In grad school, it’s the faculty that matter. No one really cares what school your diploma reads. It’s who you worked with and what you did while there that matters.
Generally, the programs I am applying to accept around 5% of their applicants and want at least 2 years of good research experience as well as 2 years of professional (applied) work (with strong letters of rec from each area). Notably, to be of value, research experience should result in at least a presentation at a conference and most strong applicants have multiple conference presentations and publications. Additionally, to be competitive your GPA should be above a 3.7 and GREs should be at least 1250/4.5 combined (typically, you need to be, at minimum, in the 80th percentile to be competitive at any accredited, respectable program in my field).
In addition to all those more objective criteria, your personal statement must show why you would be a good fit for the program and you need to have at least 1 professor in the program with whom you share a research (or applied) interest so that he or she can mentor you through the program. Finally, you need to perform well enough at an interview to ultimately gain the position over another 30-100 applicants who’ve all been found to be possible matches for the program (just like you presumably are) and invited to interview for the same 5-10 spots in the program.</p>
<p>If I got 3.0 first trimester, no med school?</p>
<p>Not no medical school for certain. You do have time to pull up. However, even with perfect GPA, there is no guarantee for med-school. My nephew got reasonly excellent GPA from mid-tier UCs(UCI,UCD, UCSB). He only recently got some interviews from some not spectacular med schools , they are not Ivy league at all.</p>
<p>Apumic, I do appreciate the response, but I wasn’t looking solely for prestige. I think name shouldn’t really matter too much in UG either, as long as you attend a respectable school. </p>
<p>I have done my research, and for my particular area of interest, I’ve found that the better schools for that concentration happen to be the more competitive ones, that was why I asked. I know there are a plethora of things that go into a grad school application, but I had no sense of what a ‘good’ gpa was for undergrad, so that was just what I was looking for.</p>
<p>A 3.0 your first trimester probably isn’t a big deal, esp. not if it did not include any med school pre-reqs; however, if you don’t bring your cumulative up quickly, you may find that most med schools will balk at your application. Remember! You only have 3 years’ coursework to show your ability-level, so every year counts more than in HS! (Apps are due first semester of the yr before you enter med school so now 7th OR 8th semester grades won’t count unless you drastically hurt your GPA and get your admission revoked.)</p>
<p>There are ways to mitigate a low GPA if it’s a cumulative result after 4 years, go to graduate school,or take more classes at undergraduate level. I know people that did one of the above and have gotten into medical school successfully.</p>