<p>My son received a scholarship that requires him to maintain a specific grade point average. I have read in a few places where BU has had an issue in the past with grade deflation. I have full confidence in my son’s ability to excel, but I wonder if anyone has any input on whether BU scholarship students have had difficulty meeting the grade point average requirement.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My nephew rec'd a half-tuition scholarship that I think required 3.5 or 3.6. After a not-so-wonderful-but-not-awful first year in a hotel with boys who did a lot of partying (not in hotel!) and tv watching, he lived in honors dorms--try to do that if possible, much quieter and really nice and you are surrounded by people who want to work and who have similar interests. He graduated last year magna cum laude (he was CAS, psychology major, Japanese minor? Not sure but 3.7 or 3.8?) He worried but that's because he's a worrier, and he's quite conscientious and while he's not a recluse, he is not a big party guy--hung out with a group of good friends. He made mostly As, some Bs, exactly what he made in high school. Maybe a few more Bs than high school.</p>
<p>People do screw up but I don't know of anyone who tried and failed to get high enough grades. There must be someone but he (or she) likely keeps his (or her) head down. </p>
<p>I suppose the reqs might be an incentive to avoid the absolute hardest courses, which isn't necessarily the best incentive in the "liberal arts" sense, but it is what it is.</p>
<p>is the info for what GPA u have to maintain to keep the scholarship online somewhere?</p>
<p>yeeees. I forget where. Check out <a href="http://www.bu.edu/finaid%5B/url%5D">www.bu.edu/finaid</a> it might be there somewhere</p>
<p>As a freshman, I did very poorly because I had a hard time adapting and motivating myself. Many freshman do quite poorly during their first year. I used to blame BU and the grade deflation, until I realized that the problem wasn't the school, it was me. Needless to say, I turned around my habits and haven't had a semester below 3.7 since.</p>
<p>is it true that the school of communications isn't accredited?</p>
<p>No that's not true</p>
<p>lol someone in the UM forum told me that, rofl. they were all basically trying to convince to go to UM instead of BU even though i had already explicitly stated that i chose BU a long time ago. it was quite weird ;/</p>
<p>Actually, it is true but "accredited" in this case is meaningless and BU chooses not to play that game. Sometimes being accredited is a license and other times it's a voluntary association. This is the latter. No one in your lifetime will ask if you went to an "accredited" program at BU. Every program at BU is accredited, meaning it has full legal capacity to operate and grant real degrees, but they are not necessarily "accredited" in the sense that they belong to every voluntary association which "accredits" programs.</p>
<p>Now if they rethink the organization of some colleges and separate journalism from PR and do a few other things then they might consider doing the accreditation thing then. Every school has its own method for organizing their COM school. Northwestern, for example, includes audiology.</p>