<p>I'm going to be attending UT in Fall 2013 as a Biology or Biochemistry major (not sure yet). I plan on attending medical school and I would of course need a really good GPA.</p>
<p>I was just curious as to exactly HOW hard it would be to maintain a high GPA ( 3.7>) here at UT.</p>
<p>How easy it is to attain such a GPA is dependent on too many factors for anyone to label it as generally “easy” or “hard”. However, for those majors I would say that most anyone is capable of getting >3.7 GPA. Most of the courses are arranged so that your grade is dependent mostly on how hard you work, as opposed to how smart you are. While intelligence obviously plays a big role in how easily the grades come, in these majors GPA is primarily a function of how motivated you are.</p>
<p>Said another way, it is rare for there to be material so difficult or abstract that it becomes intellectually inaccessible. Do the homework (including ungraded ones), do the practice tests, go to class, go to discussion sessions, and if necessary go to office hours. The high grades will follow.</p>
<p>Oh, and best of luck and Hook em’!</p>
<p>frever</p>
<p>I disagree.</p>
<p>UT accepts top ranked students from all Texas schools, and the academic abilities of these students differ very much. </p>
<p>Lets say that one of the indicators of academic success is SAT/ACT scores. I don’t remember SAT, but ACT college readiness score in Texas is 23. </p>
<p>There are students accepted to UT who have less than that, and UT will, of course, try to help these students, place them in remedial classes, put them in some special scholar program etc, but still, about 10% of students will drop off or be dismissed because of academic reasons. Not all of these students are lazy or party all the time instead of studying, some of them just cannot handle the academics, they are not ready for “real” college.</p>
<p>Plus, even hard working students sometimes cannot handle certain subjects, like foreign language, math, or writing flag class. </p>
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<p>AlexVill17</p>
<p>IMHO.</p>
<p>If you have enough AP/IB/dual credit classes to get sophomore status by the end of Fall semester you are not going to experience any problems maintaining high GPA, IF you study.</p>
<p>If by the end of Fall semester you are still a freshman and have to take all overcrowded weed-out introductory courses from core curriculum, sometimes with 500 students, with your work graded by foreign TAs who now and then have problems communicating in English , your GPA is at risk.
And if in addition to that you don’t have very strong studying skills, not only GPA is at risk but your very existence as a UT student.</p>
<p>Again, it is my very personal opinion based on reading this forum, reading UT groups’ pages on facebook, UT statistics, and watching my daughter and her classmates.</p>
<p>Ya Ya,</p>
<p>I see where you’re coming from and you make a good point. I didn’t have to take most of the core curriculum so I guess I never had a chance to meet the students that got weeded out. This is why I hesitated to ascribe those majors with a particular difficulty.</p>
<p>Still, compared to other majors, bio and biochem are both relatively manageable.</p>
<p>Is it difficult to keep a high GPA in either Plan II or McCombs? Just wondering.</p>
<p>^No. 10char.</p>