<p>I just finished my freshman year at a very respectable public college. I'm expecting my cum. GPA to be around like 3.2 to 3.3, even though I took rather easy classes this semester. </p>
<p>Although I know CC isn't a very representative sample, I feel like I'm behind or something for no reason--even though I don't know even know how much GPA is going to affect my future (isn't it really only good for the first job, then it's experience after that? heck, I don't even want a 9-5) I have never had any plans to go to Harvard Law School, be some I-banker at Goldman Sachs, or anything outlandish that requires perfection...so I'm just wondering, what is a "good" college GPA? And what does the GPA even really determine/entail? </p>
<p>I hate to be so numbers and grades focused, but it just seems like I am already.</p>
<p>as GoldShadow said... above a 3.0 will generally be fine for anything employment related. If you have significant grad school aspirations, then grades become more important.</p>
<p>It's going to depend on a lot of things, including the school, the course of study, and what you want to do with it.</p>
<p>If you really want to compare yourself to others and you don't have any benchmark in terms of what you might want to do after college, I'd go look around your college website and see what kinds of grades will get you various kinds of academic honors. That will give you some idea of what the school thinks is a good GPA. I think you'd probably do better to ask yourself how much each grade reflects what you think you really could have done in each class. Taking tougher classes will probably reduce your GPA -- and not only is there nothing wrong with that, but taking chances in your education will probably result in you being a better-educated individual at the end of it all.</p>
<p>A GPA means little. Any GPA above 3.0 will do. How well you do on the LSATs/MCATs/GMATs and how smart you sound when you open your mouth during the interview is what counts.</p>
<p>^^^ exactly, although gpa is pretty important.. you have to have a decent gpa, but if youhave above a 3.0 you'll get accepted somewhere if you have a good MCAT/LSAT/DAT and interview well.</p>
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you do NOT need a 3.7+ to get into med school lol
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Actually you kind of do. If you google average GPA for medical school you will find that most State medical schools have average GPAs for accepted students of over 3.6 to 3.7+.</p>
<p>Our State medical school the minimum to apply is a 3.0 but they state that you are unlikely to be competitive or even be offered an interview with a 3.0.</p>
<p>A few years ago I used to post in this other message board, and there was a girl who claimed she had a 3.9 GPA from a decent school. For some reason none of us could comprehend, she was unable to find a job after graduation. She seemed foreign to the idea of having to show anyone her resume; she claimed she didn't even have one. A few hundreds posts later she revealed she had ADD, her 3.9 GPA essentially rendered meaningless.</p>
<p>agreed swimcats... here are the admission stats from my school last year for med and dentistry. Mind you, it's a Canadian school, and we're a bit more competitive up here, but not by a ridiculous amount...</p>
<p>That looks like the UColorado admissions... unless you really look into the stuff and actually talk to other applicants and know whats going on it is useless to just try and look at numbers and know what's going on. I don't care enough to debate it because truthfully, it doesn't matter enough to me.</p>
<p>huh? What do I need to know about students for in order to interpret statistics? Those are links from my University. And I know for a fact that other Canadian school stats are similar.</p>
<p>I don't know about American schools, but not everyone is from there on CC.</p>
<p>In my opinion anything over a 3.5 is good. While a 3.0+ is very respectable, above a 3.5 will get you into the top tier of grad and professional schools. </p>
<p>BerkeleySenior: You don't need a 3.7+ to get into good law, med, or PhD programs. There are MANY other factors that can make up for a lower GPA. Law schools are particularly enamored with the LSAT.</p>
<p>I think it makes all the sense to have a very good GPA, because one never knows how one will do on the LSAT. </p>
<p>I'm so happy this semester is over, I so need the summer to recuperate. When I'm in the mood, I get all A's, even when the assignments are really hard, but then I enter one of my "who gives a ****" dispositions and get stuff in late or not finished or whatever. Hopefully it's a freshman thing or something. :/</p>