<p>I am probably going to be getting a few B-s this year. I know it will bring down my gpa but will it bring it down by a lot? and if it does can i bring it back up since i am a sophomore by next semester and until my senior year? i know i wont graduate with a 4.0 but i would at least like to maintain around 3.3- 3.5</p>
<p>how much will it get lowered if i have a 3.3 right now and i get straight b's and b-'s?</p>
<p>I transferred colleges with a 3.3 and in my first semester of my sophomore year i will be getting straight b's and b-'s..</p>
<p>In general
A=4
A-=3.67
B+=3.33
B=3
B-=2.67
C+=2.33
and so on.
Multiply your cumulative gpa times the number or credit hours you have taken so far at the school you are at we will call thise quantity x. Then multiply your current expected grade for each class times the number of hours that class is worth and sum these weighted grades we will call this quantity y. Add x and y and divide by the total number of class hours you will have taken at your current school up to the end of this quarter/semester. This is your gpa. Your transfer gpa should never be combined with your gpa from the school you transferred to. Also remember your freshmen and sophomore years are your buffer years for most difficult schools. I finished sophomore year with a 3.94 and am looking at graduating with a 3.65-3.7. This type of drop from lower division to upper division coursework is not uncommon.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m now relieved to hear that the drop in grades when going from lower to upper level courses is common. I took upper level courses right away, and had a really hard time with them in the beginning. Now, I have a much easier time with them than the lower level courses…those kill me because I can’t focus to save my life. By the end, I’m thinking ‘I did this in high school. Show me something interesting’ and zone out.</p>
<p>If you transferred with a 3.3 it might not help you now…At most schools I know of your gpa doesn’t transfer, only your credits. Your gpa is only courses at the new school. So if this is your first semester your gpa will be whatever you get now. You can bring it up from there of course. Everybody won’t like this advice…but if you are really concerned about gpa, make sure you take a few courses over the next couple of years that you KNOW you can get an A in!</p>
<p>I think that a lot of kids do worse the first year or two when they are learning to be in college and taking general ed course they don’t care about. The courses in my major that I took later were the ones I did best in because I liked them and by then I knew how to study (lock self in library w/o tv or phone or radio!) I then put my "GPA in Major’ (or somethng like that) on my resume rather than my overall which was lower.</p>
<p>^Agree, except that the OP is not getting a B-, they are getting:</p>
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<p>I’m not saying this is a problem, it just depends on what the OP is aiming for in the long term…done after UG, grad school, Med school, etc. They are fine for graduating, but if say they’re premed, then they really need to asses their situation seriously. Grades do not exist in a vacuum, they depend on the the goals of the student.</p>
<p>a B- isn’t really looked at differently from a straight B. all it does is determine overall GPA. some colleges, in fact, don’t do "A-"s, "B-"s, or "C-"s.</p>