Average Freshman GPA? Per Major or School

Scribbulus
Sun, 27 May 2012 15:19:34 +0000

Does Tulane publish the average GPA of the Freshman class anywhere. Or is it possible to get that information from the college or program. Final grades are in, I think he did fine, but he was hoping/thinking he would do better. Chemistry was more of a hurdle for him than he expected, both semesters, but it’s out of the way now as his engineering major only requires the two semesters of chemistry with lab. The A, A-, B+, B, B- etc… grading scale was a novelty to him, but once he adjusted to it, I think he likes it better. He was highly insulted when he finally realized that at his high school, his 89 in Pre-AP Geometry ended up with the same 3.0 as a classmates’ 80 in grade level Geometry (HS only weighted AP classes with 3 pts), so though Tulane doesn’t weight honors classes over the non-honors option, at least an 89 counts for more than an 80. He says none of his professors mention an average GPA, he knows many of his friends that do not hold majors in science/engineering have higher GPA’s, and while he says he realizes that at just about every school engineering majors have a lower GPA, I get the feeling he thinks if he was really as smart as he thought he was, he, himself, personally, would have a higher GPA. I know he’s thought about emailing the program head and asking what the average freshman GPA in engineering is, but at the same time, he’s almost afraid to ask for fear it’s much higher than his. But if it was online somewhere then he could look at it, without putting himself in the position of having the dean say, well, yours is a little low.