To current Chicago students: What is your GPA?

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<p>I know you guys are not a representative sample, but I'm curious nonetheless. Nobody seems to bring up this information in discussing how difficult Chicago is compared to their high schools. If you worked your tails off with the same intensity in high school as at Chicago, what results did you get? Many parents also claim that their child is doing well, but how well exactly? What about those students who feel that they barely got in with their marginal HS record?</p>

<p>Post your Chicago GPA.</p>

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<p>I will say that almost nobody here at UChicago talks about grades ever. I know the GPA of exactly one other person here. I've actually only been asked once in three years about mine. It's possible to get mostly A's with effort (though it's harder in the sciences, I think).</p>

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<p><a href="http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2005/01/18/gpas_get_a_76_boost_.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2005/01/18/gpas_get_a_76_boost_.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>(I don't even know my GPA, and if I did, I wouldn't post it).</p>

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<p>^^^^^^ That's the general attitude that I was referring to in another thread. People are so cutthroat that they are unable to talk freely and openly about grades, etc.</p>

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<p>I wish people could just post their GPA. We are a non-judgmental group, and it's not like we know you in real life. If you don't know your GPA, do you have any idea of what grades you're getting so far? Here's your chance to see what other people are getting without asking them in real life.</p>

<p>Could it also be that Chicago students are ashamed of their GPA? I seriously doubt that they don't care about grades at all.</p>

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<p>"I don't even know my GPA, and if I did, I wouldn't post it."</p>

<p>Why not?</p>

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<p>"I've actually only been asked once in three years about mine."</p>

<p>Hello Maroon8, I'm asking you now.</p>

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<p>The concept of the courteous request seems to have eluded you, 'tis. Is there some reason that need this information - to make a decision in transfer applications, perhaps?</p>

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<p>Oh, sorry. Didn't mean for my request to sound demanding. I actually intended to put a smiley face in my post to Maroon8.</p>

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<p>GPA isn't a polite topic of conversation. People don't talk about GPA here because it's honestly not the main concern. People worry about getting their work done and getting the best possible grade for them and for that class. It's not unusual for students to discuss grades on particular assignments or even for particular classes, but overall GPA does not give a very good picture of the situation as a whole. It's not that people are competitive so they don't talk about GPA; in fact, students here work together all the time and are not at all competitive. It's just not something that people discuss, in the same way people don't talk about how much money they make.</p>

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<p>I don't think it's being cutthroat at all-- I think it's keeping private things private. Why don't we all just talk about our medical histories while we're at it? Any cases of depression in your family? I got it-- why don't we all sit around and talk about our SAT scores? I mean, we could always talk about Plato or Aristotle, but why talk about big, important issues when we can just compare numbers that are only meaningful to the person who has them?</p>

<p>If it pleases you to know, I currently have a 3.2333 GPA. I weigh 150 pounds, I wear a size 10 jeans and I'm a 36B. No, I am not a virgin. Yes, I have been in therapy.</p>

<p>What other personal information can I divulge?</p>

<p>I have a really bad case of eczema on my back. I've cheated on boyfriends-- once with a male, once with a female. I'm allergic to onions. I had my first (and last) cigarette on my 13th birthday.</p>

<p>I have a cousin who died of Down's Syndrome before she was a year old. I have minor OCD habits that go more out of control "that time of the month." </p>

<p>I'm not on financial aid. When I was little I was diagnosed as Special Ed. and I spent two years in Special Ed. before moving to Gifted and Talented. I can't process a lot of things that I hear. When I was younger I was a chronic bedwetter.</p>

<p>This all goes to show... do you have an idea how lowly, how insulting, asking somebody what their GPA is? Why does it even matter to you what your neighbor's doing/ getting? If you want all A's, go to another school where you can get your A's. If you want to talk about how long your thing is, how many beers you can drink before you black out, what you got on your PSAT, what you got on your SAT, what you got when you took it in eighth grade, how much money your parents make, how much of it they donated to the school, how much financial aid you're getting, how many times you've been laid, please, for the love of god, don't come here.</p>

<p>If you're in it to learn, to just relax and have fun and see whatever grade comes out of it, don't get scared off, please. :-)</p>

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<p>Well, this was actually just an experiment to find out how Chicago students would react when anonymously asked what their GPA is.</p>

<p>Kidding aside, this thread does support the idea that Chicago students are defensive when asked this question. I think you you guys are completely missing the point that this is an ANONYMOUS forum. Obviously, I don't expect people in real life to talk about their GPA. I don't either, and I hope that Chicago students do not in real life.</p>

<p>Unalove, you forgot to mention when you were first kissed and by whom.</p>

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<p>What is a good GPA varies at Chicago from department to department. There are departments where a 3.0 GPA qualifies one for departmental honors and others where it is a 3.5. Since there is so much variation between departments, an overall GPA is not very informative. A 3.3 (which is close to the College average; 3.25 qualifies one to graduate with honors from the College) may be quite outstanding in one area and below the curve in another.</p>

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<p>tis:</p>

<p>The posted article provides all the information you need. Getting GPAs from posters here, who can lie or not as they see fit, cannot be of much use to you.</p>

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<p>Yes, thanks. But I was just curious what the normalized meaning of "I'm doing well" is for Chicago students, and particularly, the ones on CC.</p>

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<p>It means they feel they are doing well in their classes. This has very little to do with overall grades, as many people have said. I have a friend who would feel accomplished with a C+ in a certain class this quarter and another friend who was upset about getting an A- in a different class last quarter. It's about doing as well as the student feels he or she could reasonably do. Sometimes this is a C; othertimes it is an A. It depends on the person's strengths, classes, schedule, time constraints, illnesses, goals, priorities, and abilities. There is no standard. </p>

<p>GPA gives a very incomplete picture, particularly when there are so few grades making up each quarter's GPA. I imagine there are a number of reasons why people aren't sharing it on this post: first years have only had one quarter (so 3 or 4 classes) to make up their GPA, people are shy that they're GPA is lower than other students who will post, people do not feel that their GPA thus far gives an accurate picture of how they're doing, people feel that this information is private and should not be shared, or people feel that your motive in asking is impure. This forum is also not entirely anonymous for current students. There are only so many current students on the board, and with information such as gender, first names, potential major, interest, and dorm, it's not very difficult to figure out who is who. It is also not completely anonymous for frequent posters since those posters sustain a certain persona online. I imagine that many people would answer if the question were in fact in a truly anonymous survey; others would not, in the same way many people leave their income levels blank on anonymous surveys.</p>

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<p>tis: I have to agree with you. After all people, what is the big deal? The defensiveness here is of astronomical proportions. This is completely anonymous !</p>

<p>unlove: I do not want to be rude, but your sarcasm is unnecessary.</p>

<p>I have to shake my head. I will definitely not be attending U of C.</p>

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<p>What a shame. Should they shut the campus down now?</p>

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<p>Especially since I've seen no evidence that s/he even applied. Past posts are on boards for Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Northwestern, and U-Miami.</p>