<p>Suin, that’s not necessarily true at all; my GPA peaked fourth semester at about 3.85 overall; I was at something like a 3.7 after freshman year, and I ended at something like 3.69, with a 3.92 in my major (CS).</p>
<p>I’m not saying that the plurality is people whose GPAs improve from freshman year until senior year, but there’s definitely those of us for whom it wasn’t true.</p>
<p>I didn’t say that everyone improves from freshman until senior year. A friend of mine actually had his GPA steadily decrease, though mostly because he didn’t really find a passion.</p>
<p>What isn’t necessarily true? My approximation of his frosh gpa? If he has a engineering gpa of 3.8 and an overall gpa of 3.4 after junior year then clearly something other than engineering is significantly dragging it down, and seeing as how you take 1 or 2 engineering classes in your frosh and first sophomore semester, it’s most likely core. I don’t see how your gpa disproves this, as they are all consistently around the same value. I may be off by a few decimal points but it depends on hum of course.</p>
<p>Suin was accurage, core courses brought his GPA down. GPA for freshman year is based only on the second semester, as the first semester is pass/fail.</p>