HS marks vs college marks

sakay · 10-09-2005, 08:03 PM

How much change will I expect to see?

Susantm · 10-09-2005, 10:17 PM

Depending upon the college, it could be a lot harder to get an A in college.

red06 · 10-09-2005, 11:04 PM

or it could be very very easy to get an a. grade inflation at certain schools and certain classes within other schools.

i_wanna_be_Brown · 10-10-2005, 01:18 PM

it also depends on the caliber of high school you graduated from

IlliniJBravoEcho · 10-10-2005, 02:23 PM

Look up a forum on curves without set grading scales. I think that may be the biggest change. For the most part.

Praetorian · 10-11-2005, 12:39 AM

The suckiest part is GPA. It is calculated based on credit hours.
EX
You get:
A--1 hour course
B--3 hour course
A--3 hour course
C--3 hour course
A--1 hour course
A--3 hour course
A--3 hour course

A=4
B=3
C=2
D=1

3 As in 3 hour courses, so 4x3=12
2 As in a 1 hour course so 4x2=8
1 B in a 3 hour course so 3x3=9
1 C in a 3 hour course s0 2x3=6

Add em all up: 35
Divide by credit hours: 35/17
=2.05 so roughly a 2.1 GPA, and that doesn't necessarily mean all of those credit hours went toward your major.

Your high school GPA with those grades? 3.6

Big difference.

towerpumpkin · 10-11-2005, 01:09 AM

That's bad math.
You have three things to multiply together: grade in course, number of credit hours, and number of classes of that type.
3 As in 3 hour courses, so 4x3x3=36
2 As in a 1 hour course so 4x2x1=8
1 B in a 3 hour course so 3x3x1=9
1 C in a 3 hour course so 2x3x1=6
59/17=3.47
Not that big of a difference....
The difference is in the difficulty of earning that grade...not many people will have grades like in that example if it's done at a good university.
(How the heck would someone with only 1 C and almost all As get close to a C average? Think about it.)

asbereth · 10-11-2005, 01:10 AM

Are you sure that's how you would calculate your GPA? That's freaking weird. From what I know, if you get 3 A's in 3 3 credit classes, you would get 4*3*3 = 36 grade points. So, using your example, you would have in total, 4*3*3 + 4*2*1 + 3*3*1 + 2*3*1 = 59 grade points, and your GPA would be 59 / 17 = 3.47. At least, that's how grades are calculated in my college.

EDIT: (somebody beats me to it he he he).

Praetorian · 10-11-2005, 01:32 AM

Towerpumpkin is right. Bad math. Sorry. That is what I get for reading Hamlet and trying to do math at the same time at 12:30 am on little to no sleep in midterm week...
...I knew it was bad too, but ignored it because I hate doing math, especially twice. I'm not as stupid as I sound, I swear. Lack of sleep and impending dentist appointment at 8am...
(For the record, those were my marks last semester. Guess what the C was in...)

And on that note, I am going to bed.

asbereth · 10-11-2005, 01:34 AM

I'm guessing... Math?

Praetorian · 10-11-2005, 01:35 AM

Good guess.

jjkell87 · 10-11-2005, 02:21 AM

Sakay, I'm a first semester student, undecided at SUNY buffalo and it's about the same as high school. Some courses are easy, some are hard, but trust me, you can get higher grades with more effort (it's not impossible to get an A in college, like I once thought, infact of my 6 classes, I am currently average like a 93 in 4 of them).

audiophile · 10-11-2005, 07:40 AM

I did much better in college than high school. I was more motivated & challenged.

Kjoodles · 10-11-2005, 11:49 AM

If you go to a top school like the ives and one with something like grade deflation like Cornell you definately shouldn't be expecting to get anything like what you did at HS. I heard a 3.5 GPA at Cornell is quite impressive. Much better than Harvard and its 91% getting honours thingy!

bing121086 · 10-11-2005, 12:20 PM

Oh, and an A- at my school is a 3.67, not a 4.0. A+ is 4.33. A is 4. B+ is 3.33. B is 3....