<p>Awkward. Coming from high school with a 100 point scale, I don't know what I'm supposed to reasonably aim for in college. I'm not planning to go to grad school (though that might change). What will employers look for? What's decent?</p>
<p>Also, is it worth the trouble to go for honors in my major?</p>
<p>This may depend on the field, but anything above a 3.0 is considered good enough for employers. In my opinion, >3.5 is good and >3.7 is very good. Definitely aim for at least greater than a 3.0, and I believe >3.5 is a solid goal to aim for, unless you’re in a particularly rigorous program. That being said, I’ve known people with <3.0 GPA get very well-paying jobs straight out of college, so it can vary depending on your major and what you’d like to do.</p>
<p>Whether or not you should do honors depends very much on what the honors program involves. If it’s just slightl yharder courses with smaller class sizes, do it if you want to, but don’t do it because you think it will “look good.” If the honors program involves a thesis component, that may be helpful and is something that you could put on your r</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it just involves a special senior class and a thesis.</p>
<p>A thesis can be good experience and will look good, but if you’re not planning on going to graduate school, you’re time may be better spent getting work and internship experience. If you decide you would like to go to graduate school, a thesis would be very good experience.</p>
<p>It really depends on your school and the program.
A lot of education programs are notorious for being “easy” and therefore a good GPA should be higher…like a 3.7 and higher since the grades are inflated.</p>
<p>However, in an engineering or biology where the classes are ridiculously competitive and difficult, a good GPA can be considered anything about maybe a 3.4.</p>
<p>I think you should definitely aim for maybe a 3.5, I think that is respectable across all programs.</p>