<p>WAMOM - I have no idea what the average frosh GPA is. People generally don’t talk about that until it’s well over (I spent 3 hours talking to a senior graduate (time flies!) - last week about his academics. I had no idea how many classes he had failed and how close he had been to failing out until that night…people are frequently too ashamed to talk about their grades, and as a result don’t realize that they aren’t the only ones doing “poorly”). The bar for Dean’s List is in fact set at 3.000. That surprised me (I might be on the Dean’s List for this semester??? What???)</p>
<p>Anyway, I had a 2.677 at the end of frosh year, and then barely moved it up to 2.700 at the end of my sophomore fall semester. So I was definitely worried about losing that beautiful 2.75 scholarship. Especially since my parents were threatening to make me transfer if I lost it (I managed to convince them otherwise over Christmas break…I wish I could have had that conversation with them earlier…it would have saved a lot of stress during 3rd semester…). I just had a somewhat awesome semester though, and I’m now sitting on a 2.84! Hurray! Now that grades are out you probably have a better idea of where your son stands gradewise. If he’s still worried after next semester, I suggest that he talk to some upperclassmen about finding some “easy hums” to fix his GPA. It’s lame, but A’s in hum classes can be a real life saver.</p>