# Quick Poll: What was your GPA in high school? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 2, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875 "2006-11-02T18:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/41 "2006-11-02T23:34:30Z")
5.94. I was about 13th-14th in a class of 500. Honors/AP classes were weighted at 6.0. Regular classes were 5.0. ---
**Author:** ![Kyyrewyyoae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Kyyrewyyoae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyyrewyyoae)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/42 "2006-11-02T23:44:55Z")
About 3.2. All this talk of AP classes and weighted GPAs seems weird to me. I graduated high school in 1997, and we didn’t have anything like that. I took Physics and Calculus and College Prep English but they were scored like normal classes and didn’t count for college credit. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/43 "2006-11-02T23:53:22Z")
3.8-something. I was ranked 13 out of about 250-odd students. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/44 "2006-11-03T00:12:29Z")
It’s been eleven years, but I’m still bitter that my guidance councilor insisted that I needed to take Algebra II in order to get into the colleges I was applying to. We didn’t have these fancy internets in my town back then (unless you wanted long-distance dial up), so it was only once I was in college that I learned that neither college I was accepted to required the class. So, with my barely passing Algebra II with a D-, my graduating GPA was 3.19. Surprisingly, that still kept me in the top 10% of my class because there were a lot of slackers. ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/45 "2006-11-03T00:48:36Z")
3.4 but my weighted GPA, which my school district called HPA, was a 3.8-something. I’m annoyed that they did it that way because no colleges ask for HPA on your application, just your GPA so that’s what I put down. I think I might’ve missed out on some potential scholarships because of it. I wish I had done better in high school. I did ok, but I mostly coasted. College #1 GPA was a 3.58 (I feel oddly guilty about rounding that up to 3.6. I don’t know why, no one gives a fuck). College #2 was a 3.7. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/46 "2006-11-03T00:55:46Z")
We didn’t have GPAs. My class average was around 92. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/47 "2006-11-03T01:19:53Z")
I got a 9.9 ---
**Author:** ![Waverly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/57b2e6/32.png) [@Waverly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waverly)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/48 "2006-11-03T01:28:02Z")
I got a 46. No, that is not 4.6. Forty-fucking-six. I got extra points for putting kids who brag about their GPA’s into lockers. Not the full sized ones, but the little half sized ones. ---
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/49 "2006-11-03T01:57:00Z")
[QUOTE=Waverly] I got a 46. No, that is not 4.6. Forty-fucking-six. I got extra points for putting kids who brag about their GPA’s into lockers. Not the full sized ones, but the little half sized ones. [/QUOTE] You Rock!! (And I hope you mean small lockers and not self important midgets) ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/50 "2006-11-03T02:33:27Z")
Thirty-one years and I still remember that I am the part of the class that makes the top Ninety percent possible 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/51 "2006-11-03T02:36:01Z")
3.0 GPA in high school. Current GPA in college is 3.95. 1350 on my SAT, 800 on the history portion of my SAT II. ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/52 "2006-11-03T02:47:27Z")
Four-point-oh. (Jack Palance Voice) Believe it… or _not_!! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/53 "2006-11-03T02:58:21Z")
3.2 (1977) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/54 "2006-11-03T03:06:47Z")
In the interest of completeness: High school: 3.2 First 3 years of college: 3.0 Senior year: 4.0 (Dean’s List) Grad school: 3.9 (_Fuck you,_ Dr. Adams!) Old Style SAT: 1400 (1972) ---
**Author:** ![padabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/919ad9/32.png) [@padabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/padabe)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/55 "2006-11-03T03:30:53Z")
IIRC, 3.35 on a 4 point scale, the worst of anyone in my social circle. An ‘A’ in an honor course was worth 5 points, an ‘A’ in an AP course was worth 6. The only non-Honor/AP courses I took were Phys-Ed, Drafting, and General Music Our valedictorian had straight 'A’s, and a GPA over 5.0. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/56 "2006-11-03T03:33:24Z")
Highschool: 3.2 SAT: 1520 ACT: 34 College: 3-ish Nuclear Power School: 3.87 I was a slacker. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/57 "2006-11-03T05:30:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Rebecca DiMwitter > Didn’t know if the “high GPA= state tuition partially or fully paid” was widely done—my 3.8 earned me 1/2 of my tuition paid at one of the State Universities here in MT (the top 20 GPAs in my graduating class of 490 received this honor, & I was #18—a bunch of smartypantses at my HS too). Since I was graduated in 1976, paying half my own tuition & books was pretty cheap in those days & I was able to work 30 hrs a week while in school & still get it done without loans, even from the folks. Well Georgia has the lottery system, HOPE pays all your tuition and some book money as long as you keep 3.0. Honestly, I don’t see how people in states without lottery systems like Georgia, South Carolina pay for college without going into student loan debt. Georgia has its negatives, but it is progressive in this sense. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/58 "2006-11-03T13:54:06Z")
**3.2** , Class of '99 ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/59 "2006-11-03T14:19:28Z")
3.83 in highschool ('97) 3.023 in college. Worked my ass off to squeak above a 3.0 ('06 - I didn’t spend nine years in college, I spent the first 4 in the USAF.) ---
**Author:** ![Arien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arien)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875/60 "2006-11-03T14:47:50Z")
[QUOTE=pool] Well Georgia has the lottery system, HOPE pays all your tuition and some book money as long as you keep 3.0. Honestly, I don’t see how people in states without lottery systems like Georgia, South Carolina pay for college without going into student loan debt. Georgia has its negatives, but it is progressive in this sense. [/QUOTE] Florida has something similar, except the requirements are slightly stricter. It’s why I have no student loan debt. Although I wish I did the 100 hours of community service so I could get the full 100%. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-poll-what-was-your-gpa-in-high-school/378875.md?page=4)