<p>hi im just wondering if, in your opinion, a 2.0 at MIT is equivalent to a 4.0 at say san diego state university.</p>
<p>MIT uses a different grading scale. Even so, probably not. It is significantly harder to get good grades at a great school, but not to the extent that your question implies. It is hard to get a 4.0 anywhere.</p>
<p>of course not. If you have a 2.0, you aren’t even in acceptable academic standing to affiliate, pass prereqs, etc. In fact, having a 2.0 cumulative means that you’ll have to switch majors because you are too much of a dumba.s.s. to be an engineering.</p>
<p>2.0 is usually the minimum needed to continue on in an engineering program. In some of the top schools, it isn’t even that easy to get a 2.0. Since most classes are curved in engineering, someone has to get a C.</p>
<p>A 2.0 will NEVER be the same as a 4.0…that is jus too exxagerated.Its better u would say a 3.2 from stanford is better than a 4.0 from SDSU</p>
<p>getting a B at stanford is easy but getting an A is way way wayyyyy harder. (after the grade inflation) so if you got 2.0 that means you’re a dumba** literally.</p>
<p>nah. since a school like MIT is so much harder to get into this only means that the curve is that much higher than say a san jose state. so in my opinion, a 2.0 at a school like MIT (where it is almost impossible to get into) is like a 4.0 from say san jose state.</p>
<p>that is my opinion and i am entitled to my own opinion.</p>
<p>Getting a 4.0 anywhere over 4 years is impressive. Getting into a college reflects your achievement in HIGHSCHOOL. Your college transcript reflects your achievement in COLLEGE. Who cares how great you WERE between the ages of 14-18, when you are now 22?</p>
<p>dude… you totally missed the point.</p>
<p>in terms of curves… the curves at the colleges i was talking about are higher. so of course one would have to jump higher if the curve is higher.</p>
<p>it’s not the same thing to compare.
two different schools.
even ur in the same department in different classes, they are still different. It’s almost impossible to tell. But 2.0 is really low. Someone with a 2.0 from anywhere would not get 4.0 at anywhere.</p>
<p>There is no school in my option that a 2.0 is worth a 4.0 anywhere else. If you got a 2.0 at MIT it means you are a C student and will probably have the same trend no matter where you attend. I went from a 150+ ranked engineering school to a school which is ranked 50th in my discipline and I am still a B- student, even though the work is a lot harder and the schools are very different.</p>
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<p>No one will deny that the curve and quality of student makes a difference, but most rational people realize that the difference is not as large as your opinion suggests. You came here asking for answers, but don’t seem to like what you are hearing.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure MIT grades are out of 5.0 …
What I’ve seen quite often is than employers, consider a 3.0/5.0 from MIT equal to a 3.0/4.0 from other universities.</p>
<p>There is no practical way to definitively measure the difference in grading at two different engineering schools. </p>
<p>One thing that can be done is to measure differences in performance on the standardized “Fundamentals of Engineering” exam. FE exam pass rates are known to [vary</a> widely](<a href=“http://www.nspe.org/etweb/10805feexam.asp]vary”>http://www.nspe.org/etweb/10805feexam.asp), from over 97% at some schools to less than 50% at others.</p>
<p>No, NCEES won’t tell you which schools get the high or low scores.</p>
<p>First of all I graduated from MIT is > I graduate from san whatever college.</p>
<p>Big companies won’t even look at your application if you got a degree from what less than 10th engineer ranked university. Be serious if the person got into MIT, he studied his best up until high school and had all the disciplines however, school like MIT, stanford, Berkeley, Illinois , Georgia tech, cal tech … the test average will probably result in 50 or 60 or so and if you are dumber than the people around you or studied not enough and not make it into average, you will fail the course.</p>
<p>Neither will those big companies look at your application if you write in huge run-on sentences like that.</p>
<p>I cant believe at times I can find ways to construe the first ammendment as a shame. This thread is ridiculous. It contains no pertinent information and should probably be deleted. The only way you could come to a conclusion is using statistical data sets. Find out the average statistics of students in certain curves…how many A’s/B’s are given out, The average GPA’s/SAT scores, the # of students etc. I know that the average GPA at SDSU is a 2.5. They only give out 5 percent A’s and 20 percent B’s. If someone would like to give me a data set from MIT, I then can come to a proper conclusion. IF NAWT I GOTS TO GO TO TOP 10 SCHOOL TO GET MEE APPLIKATION LOOK AT.</p>
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<li><p>If you don’t want to read it, don’t. No one is forcing you.</p></li>
<li><p>I doubt that all SDSU classes have the exact same grading scale and give out 5% A’s and 20% B’s. Even if you did want to use statistics, all you would need is the GPAs of students admitted to prestigious grad schools from SDSU and MIT. Average SATs and the curves mean precisely dick to the main question.</p></li>
<li><p>Most of the people that have replied don’t agree with the OP. Read the rest of the thread before you get ****y and assume everyone is saying you have to go to a top 10 school.</p></li>
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<p>i guess most don’t agree with me cause they don’t go to a top ranked school.</p>
<p>i know exactly how jealousy works. jealousy speaks from the heart rather than the mind. i mean it is so obvious…</p>
<p>You made a post earlier about getting into grad school with a 2.0001 gpa in EE and everyone told you that you would need work experience. You hadn’t even mentioned that you went to a top school in that case, so I don’t think people are being biased.</p>
<p>A disproportionate number of people who post on this message board go to well-known schools. People don’t agree because you are wrong, not from some jealousy. You will have a VERY hard time getting considered for jobs and almost no chance of getting into a reputable grad school with a 2.0 from anywhere.</p>