CC and College Grades- Some Perspective Please.

Louis_XIII
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:12:29 +0000

I’ve noticed something about this board that has me scratching my head. It’s how college GPAs are characterized on here.

I have seen a 3.7ish (overall GPA) range on here mentioned as being “good” not “excellent” but just “good/okay but could be better”. This is curious to me and I need some perspective here. For most purposes, a 3.7 is an (A-) average and lands you on the college honor roll.

Is it just the culture of this board where anything less than a 3.9+ is a lauce?

Now, I understand that for certain fields a 3.7 wouldn’t get you into a great program (ex: PhD in philosophy), and I also understand that GPA ranges vary by discipline for grad admissions. So I get that. But overall, a 3.7+ college gpa should be impressive, no?

Sorry if this is in the wrong place. I only visit the Grad forum sometimes the Law forum.

You don’t need to say " 0.0-2.5=Bad" and blah blah because I don’t want anyone to feel bad about their performance. I’m just trying to understand something I see frequently on the board.