What would you consider a decent first semester freshman gpa

<p>What would you consider a decent first semester freshman gpa? I'm finishing up my first semester aiming at at least get above a 3.0, but I want to know what would be considered a good gpa for a freshman finishing up his first semester.</p>

<p>Depends what your major is/where you’re going/what your post-grad plans are/etc. Personally, as an engineer at a top school, I’d say 3.0 or above, but this really varies person to person, even here.</p>

<p>I thought the average engineer GPA was like a 2.7 at those top schools…</p>

<p>I thouht freshmen only take general education classes.</p>

<p>im a freshman who took 18 credits</p>

<p>Microeconomics
Calc 2
Physics 1
Engineering Intro
Physics Lab 1
Western Civilization</p>

<p>I am an engineer major, What would you say is decent for my first semester of college?</p>

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<p>Yeah, average isn’t necessarily good though. I had a 2.78 my fall semester of freshman year, but I was definitely behind a lot of my friends. I’m now somewhere around a 3.0, which is the cutoff for a lot of internships/REU’s, and the generally-accepted cutoff for employers to consider you for potential jobs.</p>

<p>And as I said, it varies person to person. My friend is really really good at standardized science (bio/chem), and she was disappointed in getting a 3.2 semester GPA last year. Then another one of my friends got straight D+'s last year, and is excited for a 2.0. It really depends.</p>

<p>wow thats really low
and i thought getting a 3.8 would destroy me</p>

<p>The average GPA at my school is like 2.7…which is a B- average on our scale. My first semester will have me at a 3.5+. Personally, it depends on your major and which classes you take.</p>

<p>Think logic here…a 3.8 is almost perfect. How would that destroy you?</p>

<p>I would think above a 3.0 is a reasonable ideal to shoot for in your first semester. Ideally a 3.5 but anywhere around there seems like a respectable goal.</p>

<p>I mean that translates into As and Bs which are pretty good grades. Even with a C, you can manage a 3.0 or above depending +/- systems etc.</p>

<p>I think a 3.0 is decent. For first semester freshmen at my school, that’s Dean’s List. I think Dean’s List is considered decent from then on.</p>

<p>It’s 4.0 or bust.</p>

<p>“It’s 4.0 or bust.”</p>

<p>pshh, typical CCer…</p>

<p>It’s very hard to peg a particular GPA as a decent GPA. Are you at a reach school that you barely got into taking 20 credits of all hard classes? Or did you go to the local community college, taking 12 credits of the easiest classes you can find, but still hoping to transfer?</p>

<p>Always strive for the best, try for a 4.0, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should expect it to happen. However, ask yourself what GPA you want, and expect to get, by the time you graduate? A 3.8? A 3.5? A 3.0? (If it’s lower than a 3.0, you should think about changing your college plans).</p>

<p>Personally, I did a little worse my first semester than I would have liked, not terribly, but a little bit lower than that GPA I would like to graduate with. There were a variety of factors, I’m at a school I was originally wait-listed at (so you could say it was a reach school - it’s not known for being tremendously hard to get into though), I took some weeder classes, I was being kinda lazy, things like that. That happens to a lot of incoming freshmen, it’s not a huge deal. </p>

<p>I would say a decent GPA is relative to what your goal is, and what you were doing your first semester. If you were being lazy, but are going to start working harder, then you can weather a lower GPA your first semester and still do as well as you’d like. If you’re doing even better than your goal, great. Maybe you even need to adjust your goals. You definitely should make sure you’re not doing .5+ worse than your target though. Every point you lose now is one you have to make up in addition to your goal later.</p>

<p>I’m almost done with freshman 1st semester, and I’m on pace to get about a 3.7. Not what I wanted, but I’ll take it. It’s definitely going to have to go up.</p>

<p>I had a 4.0 my first semester. Generally, I try to aim for a 3.5 or above, which just means getting more A’s than B’s.</p>

<p>Threads like this make me hate CC so much. EVERYONE’S DIFFERENT. Even if you’re at the same school, same major, same classes, you can still have a totally different set of standards for yourself than they do for themselves. I will probably never have a 3.5, and I’m okay with that. Figure out what GPA you need to be competitive in your field, and then strive for it, but don’t beat yourself up if you have a bad semester, or haven’t yet learned how you best study, or whatever, as long as you do your best to fix it.</p>

<p>Also, don’t be afraid to try a class that people say is challenging, if you think it will be interesting! Even if it hurts your GPA, it’s worth the knowledge. And (besides med school I guess), future employers stop noticing after 3.5 (3.5-4.0 are roughly equivalent), because by that point, it’s obvious you’ve done well, so they look to other parts of your application to see where you’d fit in.</p>

<p>I’m still back on knights09 post where a 3.0 is Dean’s List…</p>

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<p>Reread the part where I said for first semester freshmen. Dean’s List is 3.5 after that.</p>

<p>If you can get a 3.0+ your first semester you will be in good shape. Even if your grades are not where you want them, 3.0+ makes it easy to bounce back.</p>