<p>To get right to the point,, my full tuition scholarship from the state of North Dakota requires that I maintain a 3.5 GPA in college. I achieved a 4.0 GPA in high school, but it didn't feel like I tried that hard. I didn't study a ton because I memorized things easily, I did all the homework, and I started bigger assignments ahead of time so I wasn't rushed at the last moment. I'm worried that high school was simply an easier system and that my GPA won't translate as well. I'm recognizing this now so it doesn't become an issue later. I hope I have the work ethic to study more for tests, since I feel like that will be the biggest issue, since I already have good essay writing skills. I would hate to lose thousands of dollars due to a poor GPA.</p>
<p>How about you guys, how well did your high school GPA hold up in college?</p>
<p>Mine is practically identical to my HS GPA, but just a tiny bit lower. I think I got 2 B’s in high school and the rest all A’s, which is decently close to what I’ve gotten in college. However, I had pretty good study habits in high school because of academic teams I was on. If you don’t have academic skills like that and take too long to learn them, I wouldn’t be quite as hopeful about your GPA.</p>
<p>High school GPA was pretty bad since I did not do homework so the stupid courses my grades suffered, but in AP courses and honor courses where exams were only really counted towards the grade I always got As. So my college GPA is higher at a 3.8+ with mathematics and physics major. IMO high school is a joke. What is your major? Btw since you memorize things very easily, most non quantitative majors will be very easy for you.</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 GPA at an average public high school, and I graduated from Georgia Tech with a 4.0 GPA along with some thirty-seven other students. As for relationship between high school and college GPA, it all depends.</p>
<p>Some of my friends likewise performed equally well at Georgia Tech as they did in high school.</p>
<p>Some performed better at Georgia Tech than they did in high school. One, for example, was a B/A student in high school but did so well at Georgia Tech that he earned a scholarship to pursue his Master’s at GT.</p>
<p>Some performed worse at Georgia Tech than they did in high school. One of my freshman year dormmates was an A student at a top-ranked public high school but never managed to eke above a 3.5 in three years. He actually transferred out after three years to pursue medical study abroad in a country that doesn’t require a bachelor’s for medical study.</p>
<p>And finally, some performed equally poorly at Georgia Tech as they did in high school. Another of my freshman year dormmates was a C/B student at a public high school and is still a C/B student at Georgia Tech.</p>
<p>I’m finding college substantially easier than high school, most due dates can be negotiated with nicer professors, you have so much free time compared to HS especially if you live on campus that finding time to work and study isn’t hard at all, if you schedule your classes right you will always get a full night of sleep, ect. I only take 15-16 credits a semester and pick my classes smart(always find the easier professors on ratemyprofessor).</p>
<p>But honestly its all relative, your school might have a lot of poor or really hard professors in certain departments. I know if I was in Computer Engineering I would hate my life as the professor easiness on RMP averages around a 1.8.</p>
<p>Sure, in lectures you will have to study harder than ever before to get an A but if you didn’t hold a 4.0 in high school you should be alright. I went from a 3.2 high school GPA to a 3.6 college GPA. Most my time is spent avoiding classwork and studying but I buckle down when need be. My GPA would be higher but I often blow my A’s during finals because of the stress and anxiety I go through(sleepless nights, constant worrying that I’m not studying enough, exhaustion, and PITA exam schedules that cluster together kill my low A’s).</p>
<p>The biggest thing is knowing which classes it just isn’t worth it to spring for an A in, you should have a good feel for this at least halfway through the semester and this is especially important if your University uses the A B C D E system and not the A+ A A- B+ B B- ect system.</p>
<p>High school GPA does not mean anything if you do well, but it means something if you did poorly but tired hard.</p>
<p>In high-school you were probably in class around 30 hours a week, in college you should be taking around 15-18 credits a semester which should equate to 15-18 hours a week in class. </p>
<p>That additional 12-15 hours a week should undoubtedly be spent studying and doing homework. But I found that more often than not this was overkill unless it was crunch time and an exam was coming up. If I was facing a exam in one of my upper level Biology courses next week and I spent about 12 hours studying leading up to that exam I could usually make it out with a low A on the exam. Everyone is different and many of the “pre-med” students around me would study religiously for 4 hours a day, every day, for 2 weeks leading up the exam and would absolutely get the highest grade in the class but its up to you if the difference is worth it(in my case, a low A still equates to a 4.0 GPA).</p>
<p>I may have had an unweighted GPA of 3.2(3.7 for my junior and senior years) in high school but I often didn’t do homework, I spaced out most of the time which meant I missed lots of note taking, and studying consisted of what I could fit in during another class during the same day or what I could do during lunch(all of this was pretty much the norm in my school, no one cared and the guys with 4.0 went on to unranked liberal arts colleges anyway).</p>