<p>For currect Cornell students who are eager to know how they did last semester, you can check your grades on JTF now!</p>
<p>really, because they told us the 27 for CAS! sweet...</p>
<p>update: 3.025 yay...</p>
<p>Sweet! I'm engineering and my grades are up. This deffinitly made my day.</p>
<p>3.7 :) (10 characters)</p>
<p>Biophilic, thanks for telling us.</p>
<p>I checked mine:
GPA: 3.5
I made the Engineering Dean's List!! (requirements: semester gpa > 3.4)</p>
<p>If I learned one thing at Cornell this semester, hard work pays off.</p>
<p>gomestar: do you find that many students do much better 2nd semester gomestar? What with adapting to the college lifestyle? Do you think pledging a fraternity can simultaneously negate this effect, condemning me to a 3.0 for my whole frosh year? ;)</p>
<p>3.94...wayy higher than I expected...was expecting A- in chem but ended up with an A+</p>
<p>EDIT: in my excitement, I forgot to thank you, biophilic...</p>
<p>I love how they always trick us with these grade posting dates. One could easily get a heart attack by clicking "grades" on JTF and have their grades pop up unexpectedly. I was doing that yesterday. Could've been me!</p>
<p>do you find that many students do much better 2nd semester gomestar? yeah, the first semester is typically the worst. I doubt many people will be sporting towerpumpkin's 3.9 as a freshmen. Most of my friends barely had a 3.0 first semester, both at Cornell and at other colleges. Just keep your priorities straight, adapting to Cornell isn't easy (this isn't a state school where you can get away with not studying). Now, when i say it's typically a student's worst semester, this doesn't mean always expect it the gpa to go up ... ya gotta work for it!</p>
<p>Do you think pledging a fraternity can simultaneously negate this effect, condemning me to a 3.0 for my whole frosh year? Eh, i'm not sure what type of an effect a frat might have. I guess it depends alot on the frat itself and how much time you put into it. </p>
<p>congratulations to all, yay no 1.7ers!!!</p>
<p>my friend is a 1.8er...but he does shrooms...:p</p>
<p>Impressive, Towerpumpkin. Everyone else as well. First semester freshman year is about adjustment... and avoiding academic probation. If you've done that, you've done alright in my eyes.</p>
<p>3.7 this semester, thats 2 engineering deans list in a row. I feel like grades deffinitly go up as the semesters go by, but not until sophmore year when you finish the brutal core requirements. I was getting 3.2's till last semester, when i got a 3.9 and now a 3.7. When I pleged my frat it didn't really change my grades at all.</p>
<p>Haaa, I got owned. At least I have a bottle of bacardi waiting for me tonight.</p>
<p>Goodbye med school :p...it's okay, I'm switching majors anyways.</p>
<p>What an unpleasant surprise. I must have really screwed up my finals.</p>
<p>Congratulations to those of you who were happy to see those grades on JTF!!!</p>
<p>For those of you who did not do as well, i hope i did not ruin your day.
Don't give up! You can always make a comeback!</p>
<p>Would any of you mind reposting your GPAs along with your SAT scores, high school class rank and whether you went to public or private high school.</p>
<p>From what I've seen there isn't too much of a correlation between SAT scores and college GPA. 1400 isn't much different from 1500 in the grand scheme of things.</p>
<p>But my stats:
3.98 UW GPA in public HS
1550 old SAT</p>
<p>Through 5 semesters at Cornell as a bio major:
Cumulative GPA-3.88
Last semester's GPA-3.98</p>
<p>The biggest deciding factor for college GPA's is the major you're in. Science and engineering majors are naturally going to have (on average) lower GPA's.</p>
<p>norcalguy, what's your major?</p>
<p>4.5 weighted public HS (don't know unweighted)
1510 old sat
My class rank was top 10, they don't tell you specifically unless your #1</p>
<p>i got a ********* 3.6 b/c i didn't get an A+ in something I deserved</p>
<p>Biology in CAS-concentration in molecular/cell bio</p>