Pretty damn low by the time I was half-way through twelvth grade. I flunked out of regular high school and finished at an alternative school.
3.67 ('04)
Currently trying to flunk out of college, having stared dismissal in the face about 3 times now. Racking up student loan debt for my troubles.
4.15, or so. (A+ was worth 4.33, everything else was the normal 4.0 scale.) Ranked 2 out of 55ish, and didn’t work nearly as hard as anyone else in the top 10 or so. 1540 SAT, multiple 800s on SATIIs, more recently a 177 on the LSAT.
Of course, all of that added up to a college GPA that didn’t quite break 3.0, so take it as you will.
In 1984, I had a 4.x* for highschool (weighted for AP) and second in my class, 1330 SAT’s, 29 ACT. In 1986 a 3.x* in my communicty college, which was barely honors ('cause by then I didn’t give a crap). I didn’t continue.
And all that and $3.50’ll get me a cup of coffee 20 years later.
*Don’t remember exactly, because it was 20 years ago and totally irrelevant to anywhere I ever managed to get in life.
We didn’t have GPAs as such, just letter grades. You had to have a D to graduate. I learned for sure that I would graduate on the day of graduation, so on a 4.0 scale I suppose that’s a 0.1. (Both of my siblings were valedictorians, strangely enough.)
(My college GPA was a B, up from a high D my freshman year, and my grad school GPA was a 4.0.)
Sorry for the hijack, just wanted to say that its good to see you back Sampiro
I don’t remember exactly–it’s been more than 20 years–but it was around 3.2-3.3.
I… have no idea, actually. I got a mix of A’s (math), B’s, C’s, and D’s, depending on how much test scores counted vs. other stuff, for the first three years. The last year was almost straight A’s, once I started handing in homework on a regular basis. These were all mostly AP classes. Whatever the final total was, it and my SATs managed to get me into a good college and some decent financial aid.
I think college was around a 3.25.
In high school they weighted the GPA value of each class by level: in addition to the 0-4 for your grade, there was an extra 0.2 for Basic, 0.4 for Comprehensive, 0.6 for Intensive and 0.8 for Honors. There may have been a 0.9 weighting for AP. I was somewhere around a 4.6-4.7
I had the same GPA in college, but they used a 15-point system.
Damn, am I the lowest?
GPA: 1.462
SAT: 1550 (alas, new style late 90’s/early 00’s; my exact year/age shall be a mystery)
2.8.
I did *terrible * in HS. It was the mid-1980s, and I was a long-haired, looser, heavy-metal kind-a-guy. 
I remember sitting in the guidance counselor’s office, and him asking me, “So, what are you plans after HS?” I said, “I want to be an electrical engineer.” He gave me a dubious look and said, “Ahem, well, I *really * think you should look into trade school.”
I got an EE degree despite his suggestion. I am now working on my MSEE in the evenings, and my GPA thus far is 4.0.
When I was in high school I had no idea what my GPA was. I knew I wasn’t doing particularly well, but I didn’t know anybody who was keeping track of his/her GPA.
Nowadays does everyone know their GPA as they’re progressing through high school? Or is still just the people who are doing really well who keep track of their GPA?
People who are doing really well mostly.
I knew mine in HS because it was not as questionable as my college GPA has been lately. In HS I had a 4.1 weighted. In college, I am sitting on a 2.5 only because my studio classes count for more than my engineering ones.
2.3 to a 2.5 in high school. I just didn’t care.
In college, I slugged around in the beginning, getting about a 2.5 to 2.6, but then finished the last couple years about 3.25 or so.
3.67. I figured out that that was optimum- it was high enough that my parents didn’t yell at me, and low enough that they didn’t make a big deal out of it. Graduated in 1993, took only one AP class (AP Physics), and GPA’s weren’t weighted then at my school.
1380 on the SAT. My mom got me all kinds of SAT prep books, which I looked through to try to figure out what the average SAT score was. But hey, my score was good enough to get me out of freshman English (if you had a 600 or better verbal score, you didn’t have to take it).
I think my cumulative HS GPA was about 3.5 (3.49?, weighted for AP), though my junior and senior years were about 3.6-3.7 (averaging out my mediocre freshman and sophomore years…but damn I did a lot of making out as a freshman and sophomore). 
Also had a 1460 on the “new” SATs (including an 800 verbal).
College GPA was ~3.79 (cutoff for magna cum laude was 3.8 
), but then I was an English major, so make of that what you will.
4.0 unweighted. We also had the weighted GPA for honors and AP classes, but I’ve long since forgotten the number. Apart from discouraging GPA-padders from taking the easiest courses possible, it seemed like pointless grade inflation.
The only good thing about my GPA was that I single-handedly prevented us from having three valedictorians and nine salutatorians at graduation. It would have been a nightmare.
I graduated in 1998 with a 3.793. Oddly enough, official school records went two five decimal places. With one quarter left to go, there were two seniors who were tied to the fifth decimal.
I don’t know if I was magna or summa cum laude or whatever else there is, and don’t really care. My high school GPA was good enough to get me into the college of my choice, and my college GPA (3.64) was good enough to get me into grad school, so for me, that’s what counts.
I don’t have a grad school GPA, because I went to UC Santa Cruz, and at the time (1998-2000) narrative evaluations instead of grades were the default. I think that might have changed since then, but I’m not sure.
Class of 1991 here. Weighted (extra points added on for Honors courses), it was 5.25. Without the weight, it was 3.83. I was second in my class when we were ranked, but then she (a CHEERLEADER! :eek: ) got Senioritis. I technically was first at Graduation time, but the programs lists me as second. Nah, I’m not bitter.
Between CLEP and Dual Enrollment, I started college with 33 hours, so I tried to graduate in 3 years. It was a horrible idea, and I lost some of my scholarship money because my college GPA dropped :smack: . I borrowed the money for my Jr and Sr years, and graduated college with a 3.2 (which, ironically, is what I needed to maintain to keep the scholarship money). Not bitter about that either…
Had a 3.5 average for the Masters. No special stories on that one, other than I finished it in 18 months.