# Brag about your good grades for this semester! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454 "2003-12-11T23:26:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/41 "2003-12-18T14:02:33Z")
My grades finally posted! Intro to Mass Communications: A- World History I: A General Psychology: A Intro to Sociology: A WOO-HOO!!! [sub]Special thanks to **twickster** for editing my last World History paper![/sub] Robin ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/42 "2003-12-18T14:15:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MsRobyn \* > \*\* > [sub]Special thanks to **twickster** for editing my last World History paper![/sub] > > \*\* Didn’t edit it – made a couple of _teeny_ suggestions. Congrats **MsRobyn** and the rest of you kickass overachievers! ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/43 "2003-12-18T23:27:44Z")
Sophomore in high school here. I’m pretty sure I have an A in everything except Spanish (A-, and I’m a year or two ahead of the average sophomore) and AP European History (B, and it’s notoriously hard). Report cards go home in late January. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/44 "2003-12-18T23:31:29Z")
I did a course through an institute that’s pretty much the Australian finance industry’s standard. No study, didn’t go to the lectures, didn’t read the course notes, knocked off the six-week assignment in an afternoon and still got a Distinction after the exam! OK, OK, so I’m supposed to be the national expert on the subject matter, I only did the course for the credit points to count toward an accreditation and two of the six assignment questions and one of the exam questions referenced papers I _wrote_, but still… ---
**Author:** ![PigArcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@PigArcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PigArcher)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/45 "2003-12-19T00:32:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chavardz \* > \*\*Am I evil if I feel that _Dean’s List_ sounds naughty? \*\* [Peggy Bundy] This Dean, is he a nice boy? [/PB] I already graduated (in the Spring), but I got straight A’s my last 2 semesters. This semester I’m only taking an Auto Shop class at city college; the final’s on Saturday. I should get an A unless something goes horribly wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/46 "2003-12-19T02:02:41Z")
GPA: 3.538. Three As, two Bs. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/47 "2003-12-19T02:03:01Z")
For any furriners who may not understand the American grading system, here’s the standard: 100-90% A 89-80% B 79-70% C . . .and so on. We’re not very creative. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/48 "2003-12-19T02:36:50Z")
Although if you are in certain programs, **Jim,** the grading scale can change. At my school the journalism grading scale is something like: 94-100% A, etc. etc. etc. and anything below 70 is an F. Sucks to be them, I say! ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/49 "2003-12-19T03:28:17Z")
As I said, that’s the basic scale. It does certainly flucuate from time to time. When I was a sophomore in high school, my health teacher demanded a 96% for an A. I think I did manage an A for that class, but it had to be right on the border. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/50 "2003-12-19T03:39:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SnoopyFan \* > \*\*Although if you are in certain programs, **Jim,** the grading scale can change. > > At my school the journalism grading scale is something like: > > 94-100% A, etc. etc. etc. and anything below 70 is an F. > > Sucks to be them, I say! \*\* It can even vary within a program. Some of the professors in my program go with the 90-100%-A, while others go with the 93-100% as an A. It’s just something that has to be remembered when you are thinking about how you’ve done on each assignment and trying to figure out your grade. ---
**Author:** ![sgsos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@sgsos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sgsos)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454/51 "2003-12-19T06:03:17Z")
I got my grades today. They are: Sophomore Electrical Engineering: A Ordinary Differential Equations & Linear Algebra: A Intro to Music Theory: A History of the American Economy: A My first 4.0 since I’ve been at college 🙂 (this is my sophomore year). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-about-your-good-grades-for-this-semester/218454.md?page=2)