<p>never mind. i meant to ask you which ENG grad school you were talking about.</p>
<p>and this is an engineering MAJOR thread, not engineering CAREER thread. good portion of engineering majors are premeds so i don't think my points were totally irrelevant since good portion of GaTech engineering undergrads would have been premeds ... until they realized they were in wrong school with wrong major for doing premeds.</p>
<p>Well, I'm a nuclear engineering student at GT.</p>
<p>I would say the average is like a 2.8-2.9. They definitely don't give you many breaks, but it's not hard to do well. I goofed off and slept through a ton of classes, but I still pulled a 3.75 after my first two years. I averaged up the grades from my classes, which were put online, and it was like a 2.8 average total. Physics and math classes have a 2.3-2.5 average.</p>
<p>I do wonder about this grade inflation business. I've emailed a few administrators about it, and they say that as each year progresses the GPA is higher. For example, freshman average is a 2.6-2.8, Sophomore 2.7-2.8, Junior 2.9-3.0, Senior 3.0 (for GT). At other schools, they said it can get up to around a 3.4 by senior year.</p>
<p>I'm hoping this GPA adjustment issues I've heard about is true for grad schools. I'd like to go somewhere good, but my GREs probably will be about like my SATs (alright, but not great). My roommate said he was talking to an employment rep. from some place and that the translation is roughly +0.4 to a GT GPA. Most of my friends have below a 3.0, but I'm still only in the top 17.1% will a 3.75, which means there is a whack distribution (far from normal). </p>
<p>It's hard stuff, but ATL and GT are really great. I'm from a ridiculously small place in VA, so it is a great change. If you guys have any more questions, feel free to email me or just post on the thread.</p>
<p>i've heard the average graduating GPA for upenn SEAS is 2.85, so no, i guess that not all ivies ridiculously inflate grades</p>
<p>slim2none. I'm calling BS on that. I say there is no way Penn has a 2.85 average course grade.</p>
<p>the 2.8 was from a dated source (back when they released avg GPA by school), but i just found a thread estimating a 3.1-3.2 as average</p>
<p>I think 3.1-3.2 is low as well, but certainly far more believable than 2.85.</p>
<p>not far fetched to believe that 2.8 is the avg gpa at a lot schools, thats slightly higher than a B- avg.</p>
<p>Not for the vast majority of good schools though. Go to gradeinflation.com and they give trends and average GPAs from 2003. Its likely those GPAs are even higher now.</p>