<p>I didn’t say that everyone improves from freshman until senior year. A friend of mine actually had his GPA steadily decrease, though mostly because he didn’t really find a passion.</p>
<p>What isn’t necessarily true? My approximation of his frosh gpa? If he has a engineering gpa of 3.8 and an overall gpa of 3.4 after junior year then clearly something other than engineering is significantly dragging it down, and seeing as how you take 1 or 2 engineering classes in your frosh and first sophomore semester, it’s most likely core. I don’t see how your gpa disproves this, as they are all consistently around the same value. I may be off by a few decimal points but it depends on hum of course.</p>