<p>What is "doing well" here? Like, what sort of GPA should I, within reason, be aiming for? Do most people get grades similar to those that they got at their high school, or do most people get like a mix of A's and B's? Would that be like a 3.6?</p>
<p>No, don't tell me to calm down. I'm just curious. My high school had a sort of... unique grading system.</p>
<p>Everyone has a 3.9 or higher at Penn during the first year if they expect to be invited back.</p>
<p>Just kidding. Unless you are trying to get into Med School or some other highly selective post-grad program, anything above a 2.5 will be fine. Obviously 3.0+ would be better but don’t make yourself crazy over it. Remember that you are going to school with some of the smartest students in the world and the grading curve is quite high.
Good luck!</p>
<p>you should aim for at least a 3.0</p>
<p>2.5 is too low especially if you’re pondering an intra-school transfer</p>
<p>and as you probably know, wharton internal transfer requires about a 3.8</p>
<p>Do Communications majors often transfer to Wharton?</p>
<p>i doubt declared comm majors do</p>
<p>but that wouldn’t be the majority of the internal transfer-hopeful population anyway - they wouldn’t have declared anything if they’re in the college</p>
<p>Is the OP a member of the “internal transfer-hopeful population”?</p>
<p>maybe not now (after only 2 weeks), but could be later on</p>
<p>shrug</p>
<p>study abroad looks at gpa, so does graduation with honors (requires a 3.5 for comm)</p>
<p>other majors in the college require minimum gpas to declare (international relations requires at least a 3.1, for example)</p>
<p>best to keep options open…</p>
<p>"best to keep options open… "
^^^^
Agreed.</p>
<p>I might be interested in the Consumer Psychology minor (in conjunction with Wharton) or the Communications major (in conjunction with Annenberg) so yeah, you definitely have to get permission for those.</p>
<p>But idk, I’m just kind of new here and I have a lot on my mind. I’m not a robot. :-</p>
<p>Keep your grades high if you want to keep your grad options open. You’re not off the hook just for getting into Penn ;-)</p>
<p>In my opinion, Penn isn’t that difficult. The hardest part of the process is getting in. Once you’ve accomplished that, you should be able to graduate with AT LEAST a 3.0 (and honestly, much higher), unless you’re a URM who somehow made his/her way into engineering.</p>
<p>Ha! I know a case of the above…yikes.</p>
<p>Which reminds me: Penn has great grad placement, but you have to meet them halfway. If you expect to attend a prestigious grad school, it’s very doable - but you need to get a 3.8+. </p>
<p>I’m not saying that 3.8 is the magic number, but it’s the GPA cutoff that starts to seem truly impressive in the eyes of top recruiters, law schools and medical schools (if you want to get a PhD, that’s a completely different route; you’ll need to establish yourself as a scholar, not merely an excellent student). Yes, you can still go to Harvard Law with a 3.7, but you’ll need a 176 LSAT at the very least to pull it off. At 3.8, the professional world will be start to be your oyster.</p>
<p>continuing the theme of “strange questions” 
heard from somewhere that classes (engineering major) get significantly harder after the first midterm- is that true?</p>