<p>Is it around a 2.8, something like that? How does it compare to liberal arts or business gpas? I'm guessing it might differ among schools.</p>
<p>I guess it might differ among the engineering fields themselves too.</p>
<p>2.8 is pretty low for the average...</p>
<p>How about 3.1?</p>
<p>I think it depend a great deal by major. I would be pretty sure a ChemE average would be lower than a CivE. That is a guess though. I thought I remembered reading on here in another thread that, depending the school, a 2.8 or so was in the ball park for ChemE's.</p>
<p>I would assume right around 3.0. Aren't grades usually curved in engineering so that the median is a B (3.0)? The average shouldn't be too far from the median.</p>
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<p>How quaint. (Sorry, GShine, it ain't so.)</p>
<p>If I remember the numbers, engineering hovered around 2.9-3.1 at our school. Except for Civil and Industrial, which hovered around 3.3-3.4.</p>
<p>the average where I am is 3.5. Most engineering students have GPAs around there. High GPAs are 3.80+</p>
<p>It depends on the school. I think my school there are engineering course where it curves so that the average is a B- instead in a C, which is odd.</p>
<p>My school curves exams to a 70. A C is a 75, so I'm guessing a 70 is a C-. I don't think there is a C-, so I guess it's a D. But homework and quizzes are usually higher which pulls the average to the 75 range (C range).</p>
<p>I've heard the average for my school is about a 2.8</p>
<p>At my school the averages are from 2.7-3.2 depending on major.</p>
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<p>Believe it or not, that's the case at some schools, such as Cornell. A lot of the engineering courses have a median grade of A-. What's that? A 3.7? As an example, over half of the ECE courses listed Fall '07 had a median grade of A or A-.
<a href="http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeFA07.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://registrar.sas.cornell.edu/Grades/MedianGradeFA07.pdf</a></p>
<p>I don't mean to point out Cornell specifically, but that's the only school that I know that posts median grades.</p>
<p>wow average of 3.5? That's high..here at UCLA the EE program has average around 3.0-3.1</p>
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<p>Holy cow! Definitely not how it was at Rice...!!</p>
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<p>Wow, I want to go to Cornell now. A top notch, well known college and generous grade curving to boot?</p>
<p>But are you sure they are actually curving the grades, and it's not just due to the GPAs being higher at the top colleges since they are so selective in their admissions?</p>
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<p>That theory would be plausible if other selective colleges also have grades that high, but I doubt that's the case. Perhaps those who have first-hand knowledge can chime in. </p>
<p>An A- median was definitely not the norm at the Cooper Union. The median grades are usually B's or C's (we don't have +/-). At Columbia, the grades were definitely inflated from what I saw, though I only spent a year there. I probably put in half the effort there as I did in undergrad and I ended up with the same GPA. Maybe Ivy's are just easier? Harvard's website says that until recently, only a 2.83 GPA was necessary to graduate cum laude (the new system is to award honors to anyone in the top 50%). What a joke!</p>
<p>Harvard</a> College :: other programs :: honors faqs :: honors faqs</p>
<p>For Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly the average class grade for ME was 2.68 GPA points or something. Of course, Cornell probably has 250+ SAT points in terms of student intelligence over Poly on a per student basis. I don't know if it equalizes.</p>
<p>3.5 is the ~85th percentile for my major.</p>
<p>GaTech is brutal. just brutal.</p>
<p>At my undergrad, a 3.6 flat was the 75th percentile for engineering with a 3.33 and 3.01 as the 50th and 25th percentile respectively. I guess it was kind of inflated?</p>