<p>I'm a freshmen right now and the first couple of weeks have been hard! I have very little free time even with all the freedoms of a college schedule. I go to Grinnell College, which is known for being a challenging liberal arts school but I'm genuinely afraid of what my report card is going to look like. I had two papers that were marked "excellent" but were given a Bs. Is it just my school or are the standards in college just that much higher? I had a 3.8 unweighted GPA in high school and I didn't have too hard of a time getting that. Will getting a 3.8 be rather wishful? Would high school students getting 3.8s be getting something like 3.5 once they go to college?</p>
<p>It could happen. It varies a lot. I got a 3.8 at my community college but I go to a competitive school now and the average GPA in my program is only a 3.2, so while I hope I’ll still manage a 3.8 I am not holding my breath. It’s easy to be a big fish in a little pond. Just do your best and try not to make comparisons, by comparing high school to college you are really trying to compare apples to oranges.</p>
<p>It depends. I played 3 sports a year in high school, worked 17-20 hours a week, took oodles of AP’s and maintained a 3.7-3.8ish UW GPA. Then in college with no job, just going to school, I really worked hard for a 3.0. But one of my good friends had a 3.2 in high school, but has a 4.0 through her freshman year at college. </p>
<p>Get into the hang of grading and studying, and keep on top of your work and do the best you can. Thats really all you can do.</p>
<p>I’m 90% sure my college GPA will be better than my high school GPA.</p>
<p>My college GPA is deinfitley lower then my HS GPA. I’m an engr major. While I do have a lower grade I am honestly more satisifed and proud of all those A-'s and B+'s I got!</p>
<p>It really depends on professors, time management and grading.</p>
<p>I need to keep a 3.0 for my scholarship. I had a 3.3 in HS, not that high, it would have been better but I screwed up 9th grade.</p>
<p>Well, if you put in the same effort, it probably will. College is harder, but if you work harder, you can compensate.</p>
<p>I didn’t do anything in HS so my GPA was crap, but now, in college, I have a reason to try.</p>
<p>It’s just frustrating how people told me that I would have so much more free time in college. It’s true… but it’s always spent on work. I feel like I’m putting the same amount of effort in and getting worse grades. It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t under so much pressure to get a good GPA.</p>
<p>My GPA is probably higher (well than my UW GPA anyways). But I went to a very competitive HS with tons of grade deflation. So even with going to a top university, I put in less work and get higher grades, lol. But let’s see if I’m still saying the same thing in my junior/senior year ;)</p>
<p>I had a gpa of 2.0 in high school. Got a GPA of 3.5 in CC and now I have a GPA of 3.9 in the university. Work hard and manage your time well, know when to have fun and when to study and set your limitations if needed and you will do fine.</p>
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Story of my life.</p>
<p>In my case, I found that my GPA rose in college, as my courses usually had much less busy work, which meant that I actually did what was expected of me, and could thus earn higher grades. But there are enhanced expectations for most of those assignments you will have, so you have to be prepared to meet them. If you struggled in high school, that isn’t a terribly good sign (but it also isn’t a kiss of death).</p>
<p>“It’s just frustrating how people told me that I would have so much more free time in college.”</p>
<p>Hhaha!! Lies. Only slackers have a lot of free time.</p>
<p>I’m not a slacker, am part of multiple campus clubs, and still have a lot of free time!</p>
<p>Then you are either a freshman/sophomore, in an easy program, or damn lucky!</p>
<p>My roommate is a freshman english major and has tons of free time to blow off homework, i get 200-400 pages of reading to do a night as a junior poli sci major-- poli sci isn’t hard but, like english, it is very time intensive due to the large amounts of reading and writing. I was really looking forward to joining clubs but have not had a single spare second to even go meet anybody. I enjoy the fact that in two years my roommate will likely be worse off than I am. :D</p>
<p>I am in fact a freshmen, but I’m in a nursing program…so I guess I’m just lucky! Lets see…I’m taking 17 credits, do dance (definitely the dance company which is once a week, and hopefully the step team as well - tryouts are tomorrow, and that’s twice a week), Singers (rehearses twice a week), Red Cross club, C.A.R.E, Faith Communities…ASCEND when it starts and possibly some theatre.</p>
<p>Nursing I hear is pretty strenuous, so we’ll be neck and neck sooner or later. 
Enjoy having a life while you can!</p>
<p>Nursing is ridiculous, even when just talking about the prereq of A&P.</p>
<p>so far, my classes are cake. Definitely easier than hs. Yeah im a freshman lol, hope it gets harder soon</p>