<p>What is your "minimum" for a decent/good unweighted GPA? </p>
<p>I say anything above a 3.5 is solid.</p>
<p>4.0</p>
<p>Sorry, had to be the first</p>
<p>3.0+ is a decent GPA in my opinion. But since this is CC, anything under a 3.8 is cringe-worthy.</p>
<p>For me, 3.9 because I suck in every other area and high school grades are generally really inflated.</p>
<p>Decent…more than or equal to a 3.25 (a 3.25 in my school is having a solid B average).</p>
<p>I’m fine with anything above a 3.5 (unweighted, that is); anything between 3.0 and 3.5 is meh, and anything below that is terrible. But, since this is CC, anything below a 5.0 is unacceptable.</p>
<p>3.7+ is what I’d call good. Personally, I’m aiming for 3.9+, but that’s just a personal goal that I’ve set for myself.</p>
<p>3.5+ unweighted
4.0+ weighted</p>
<p>3.5+ is pretty good. That would mean you are typically an A-, B+ student.</p>
<p>3.0 is okay
3.4-3.5 is solid
3.5+ is pretty good
All UW of course.</p>
<p>UW
3.8 solid
3.9 great
4.0 YAY</p>
<p>Earning lower than an A in a class means you did something wrong, period. There’s perfect (4.0) and less than perfect (<4.0).</p>
<p>It’s okay to do things wrong. Choose your battles.</p>
<p>It’s not important how many errors you make, but why your effort results in errors.</p>
<p>A decent effort is one that grasps the big picture and can easily be expanded. I’d more likely call the effort leading to a 3.0 decent if the mistakes are poor recall of shallow information (names, dates, etc.) than I would call the effort leading to a 3.5 decent if the mistakes are due to being “bad at math”.</p>
<p>3.3+</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>3.5 is a decent GPA in my book.</p>
<p>Anything above a 3.5
( I’m saying this because I have a 3.6 
)</p>
<p>“Earning lower than an A in a class means you did something wrong, period.”</p>
<p>Only if there’s grade inflation. (There usually is, but still.) A B is supposed to mean “good” and an A is supposed to mean “excellent,” like you went above and beyond the bare minimum.</p>
<p>“good” doesn’t mean “never wrong”; “good” means “significantly fewer mistakes than a satisfactory amount” and “satisfactory” means “few enough mistakes that the class shouldn’t be retaken”.</p>
<p>A student can do things wrong all the time and still be a good, even excellent student. What matters is the reason for error: careless mistakes, false or missing information, etc. are more excusable than misunderstood concepts, poor communication skills (especially fallacious arguments), etc.</p>
<p>Grades aren’t based on whether you’re a good student in general, they’re based on how you did in that class.
But, when there’s grade deflation or just non-inflation, people can get Bs when they didn’t really make mistakes just because the teacher isn’t fond of giving As. On more subjective assignments like papers (or really anything other than multiple-choice exams), you can write a perfectly “good” paper with no mistakes, but someone else who’s a better writer can have a few more details or a slightly better word choice or something and get the A.</p>
<p>“careless mistakes, false or missing information, etc”</p>
<p>Eh, I don’t really think those are okay - I mean, you can’t make those kinds of mistakes in the real world on your job any more than you can make the mistake of having poor communication skills.</p>
<p>Getting a B on a paper means you made the mistake of not writing it in a way that the grader would judge A-worthy – you missed the grader’s mark. This is a very excusable mistake if the grader is unreasonable or cryptic (failed to establish a good rubric beforehand and wouldn’t constructively critique drafs), and even laudable if the grader is biased against the viewpoint presented and awarded As to lesser quality papers. But it’s still an avoidable mistake.</p>
<p>No, carelessness and misinformation are not necessarily more excusable in the real world than poor communication skills, but they are transient. A good communicator can self-correct more easily than an inarticulate but well-informed person can re-articulate.</p>
<p>Basically, I think a “decent GPA” just means the result of reasonable effort by a student who gains a good grasp on the concepts and skills presented in each class.</p>