Is a 3.1 GPA good for the first semester of college?

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<p>Is a 3.1 GPA considered good for a freshman’s first semester of college?</p>

<p>Any opinions?</p>

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<p>That doesn’t seem too bad, what sort of course load did you take?</p>

<p>Considering that you were adjusting to college life and the college course work, keeping above a 3.0 isn’t bad.</p>

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<p>It would be very good for some people, and very bad for others. As far as future employers may be considered it’s decent, or low for more competitive jobs/grad schools.</p>

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<p>A 15 credit courseload with a mix of classes from across the spectrum.</p>

<p>Here are the courses I took,</p>

<p>English-A</p>

<p>Math-C(idk how it it ended up being a C/should be a B)</p>

<p>History-B</p>

<p>French I-C(first time taking a language)</p>

<p>Political Science-A</p>

<p>Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State Seminar-A</p>

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<p>^I assume you’re looking into a polisci or history major? If so, it looks good. You won’t have to take much more math or French. For classes relevant to your concentration you have three As (english, polisci, and the seminar) and a B (history). That is a 3.75 GPA. Which is good.</p>

<p>And the GPA within your major is more important than your overall GPA for a lot of things (I think?).</p>

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<p>Correct I am a history and political science double major.</p>

<p>My my overall GPA should also be higher next semester because even though I’m taking French next semester. I’m not taking the math because I planning on transferring, and for English I have the same professor that subject as I did this semester. Also I’m taking more social science courses which I should do well in thus contribute more to my GPA.</p>

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<p>depends on your school. some schools (stanford, ivies) have more grade-inflation than others.</p>

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<p>^^ I see why you didn’t get an A in English.</p>

<p>Oh wait… you did</p>

<p>Just kidding! But seriously, a 3.1 isn’t bad, considering you did well in your major-oriented courses.</p>

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Really? There’s definitely a shred of truth to your joke.</p>

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<p>Please don’t blow my cover next time. Thanks :)</p>

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<p>haha sorry man.</p>

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<p>That’s good for a first semester. I got a 3.26 and personally, am ecstatic…but then again, it is the highest GPA I’ve ever gotten (I didn’t do **** in middle and high school). I just hope that I can keep it that way because as a nursing major, that’s difficult, but if it’s pulled off, a whole world of opportunities is opened up to you!</p>

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<p>you are seriously going to make that generalization that all ivies inflate grades? **** off.</p>

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<p>Average GPA’s:</p>

<p>Brown - 3.61
Columbia - 3.42
Cornell - 3.36
Dartmouth - 3.42
Harvard - 3.45
MIT - 3.17
Penn - 3.44
Princeton - 3.28
Yale - 3.51</p>

<p>With the exception of MIT and Princeton (possibly Cornell), there is grade inflation at all other ivies.</p>

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<p>It’s not good enough!</p>

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<p>MIT is an ivy?</p>

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<p>It’s not a member of the Ivy League but in the sense of being very prestigious and rigorous, yes.</p>

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<p>well i didn’t actually know if that was indeed the case (i was just going off of hearsay) but if those stats posted in the thread are correct, then yeah, most of the ivies do have significant grade inflation.</p>

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<p>Let’s just stick to the eight which are in that designated athletic conference. If not, then we’ll probably have to include a bunch of other comparable schools like the University of Chicago, Caltech and Stanford.</p>

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<p>lol .</p>