<p>It could also just be that people that go to Ivy’s are really smart…and thus get high GPA’s…</p>
<p>(again going off of hearsay–i may be totally wrong about some of these picks) </p>
<p>there are a lot of students, just as smart as those in the ivies, who go to colleges that are just as excellent as the ivies. But Berkeley, UChicago, Caltech, and MIT don’t have the same grade inflation that the ivies do . . .</p>
<p>^^^why the hell did you post that?
And wow Brown has a really high average GPA!
Penn has a decent 3.44. My high school’s average GPA is a 3.41 lol. A 3.5 at an Ivy is really good.
Also, where did you get these data?</p>
<p>I got a 3.12 GPA in my first semester in general engineering (I took 17 credits, General Engineering, General Chemistry, Chinese I, English I, Calculus I)</p>
<p>Is that good or bad? I know I can definitely do better but how bad does it look right now if I finished with this GPA?</p>
<p>^It depends what you want to do. If you want to go to Harvard Law school or get a PhD at MIT, it’s bad. If you want to get a job at Goldman Sachs, it’s bad. Etc. But if you want to do some more normal job or something it won’t kill you (I think).</p>
<p>I had a 3.419 this semester, with the following courseload:</p>
<p>First Year Writing Seminar: A-
Calculus I: A-
Introduction to Ethics (business school course): A-
Europe in the World I (history course): A-
Physics I: C+</p>
<p>Physics really killed my GPA. I suppose it isn’t bad or anything, but it could be improved upon.</p>
<p>by the way, is Clemson the only college that doesn’t give you additional GPA points for having a +/- (for example, while at Clemson all B’s are 3.0’s, at other schools, you can get a 3.33 by getting a B+)?
I’m really mad at missing an A in calculus by 0.06% yet I only get a 3.0 towards my GPA, not sure if this is something employees take into account when reviewing grading scales haha</p>
<p>I think while having the +/- scale can be an advantage, it can also be bad since getting that - on your grades usually means you would otherwise get the full A, B …etc.</p>
<p>^I’d take +/- over flat A, B, etc. any day. The situation pierre got would be terribly annoying. I don’t know why schools just don’t report percents. Do you guys know the reasons?</p>
<p>Luckily enough for me, BC uses the +/- nomenclature.</p>
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<p>No it isn’t. It’s slightly higher than average at most ivies (if the averages that were posted in the thread are to be believed). Now, a 3.5 at MIT is something to be proud of.</p>
<p>I think being slightly higher than average at an ivy is really good. it’s all relative.</p>
<p>I think a 3.1 is an alright GPA. It’s not bad. I think the math brought your GPA down. The math/ sciency classes usually always have a curve at the end. So getting a grade C means you probably didn’t get in the 70’s and actually performed in the 50’s or lower. I’m guessing this because that’s how my calculus class was last year and how my statistics class was this quarter. anywho, be proud! You did well in your major classes and that’s what counts</p>
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<p>Nah, I think it might have been the A in English.</p>