What was/is your GPA?

In My Humble Opinion
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What is your current grade point average if you’re still in high school, or what was your GPA upon graduation? Were/are you the kind of student who had to work hard for what they got, maintained a 4.0 that required next to no effort, put forth no effort and failed, or landed somewhere in the middle?

(I’m finishing up my Junior year of high school. I’m the kind of student who tries to go on what they can retain from class, putting forth as little effort as possible until absolutely necessary. At the moment, I’ve got a 3.779, and I’m pretty happy with it, although if I turned into an utterly school-driven nutbar, I could do much better).

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I seem to recall that I graduated with something like a 3.95 on a 4.0 scale, but as our school actually did GPA on a 4.7 scale and had a really screwy bonus system for Honors and AP Courses it wasn’t at all clear what your GPA really meant- more enlightening is probably the fact that a 3.94 was good enough for 5th in a class of 200.
Of course, in college I graduated with a 3.91 out of 4.0, and there wasn’t any screwy business with regards to bonuses or anything, so a 3.91 actually represented a virtually all A record.
In both cases, classes were for the most part mind-numbingly easy. I know there’s lots of people who tell you that you’ll suddenly struggle in college, or at least have to do more work, but I think that unless you step up to a school like Harvard or Yale, they’re full of it- college for me was a bit easier than High School, not harder.

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I believe my final GPA ended up being a 3.8 in high school. I took a lot of weighted Honors/AP classes though. I squeaked into the top 10% of my class. As a student, I was (and am) a lot like you, Skinner.Right now in college, I have a 3.15 after one semester (and I’m on scholarship probation, ugh). It would be higher, except that I screwed up in Calc 2.

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high school, I had a 97.8 average when I graduated, whatever that works out to on a 4 point scale.

I flunked out of college with a 0.9 a couple of years ago. This year I came back and last I had official grades had a 3.54. This semester should be up there too, the lowest grade I’ve gotten so far is a B-.

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My freshman year was the only year the school actually sent out the reports of the GPAs. For sophomore and (so far) junior year they’ve somehow managed to mess it up.

My GPA as a freshman was 4.0 and I was first in my class; no idea about sophomore year. This year I would estimate it to have been around 3.0 the first semester and, right now, something around a 3.5. I keep getting dragged down by math.

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I guess I was a dumbass in HS and college compared to ‘yall. I was 7th or so in a class of 45(!) in HS, with a 3.33 GPA. I just glided through though, and could have done much better if I’d cared about my grades more than partying, making money and skipping class. Basically, the work itself was a cakewalk. My bachelor’s GPA hovers around a 3.1, with semester grades between 2.1 and 3.6. I’ll be receiving my master’s with a 3.9 (damn’ statistics for tarnishing my transcripts with a B!). I guess that has something to do with actually putting forth an effort to attend class. I only found college difficult when I was out of my element (e.g. taking an advanced level microbiology course when I’d never taken any MB course).

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I finished a BA course last year - part-time whilst working full time. In order to get a first, you needed a 3.25 GPA, I got a 3.5 … so I was very surprised and very happy.

And very happy to never study a day again in my life (if I can help it!).

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High school was something around 2.8-3.0.

Now I’m in college and holding steady around 3.25. :cool: And it’s liable to drop if I don’t get off this board and put in more time on my paper.

I don’t understand how people can maintain a 4.0 through 5 or 6 classes. I have to fight for 3.2s and it’s party time when I get them. Even if I was in nothing but classes like “Breathing 101” I’d still not get straight As because I’d get bored and start reading books in the back of the room.

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Ugh … high school was horrible. I managed to survive with my life and a 2.75 (or thereabouts) GPA. Now that I’m a bit older, tougher and wiser, I’m back in college full time and doing considerably better.

Up until my statistics class last month I had a 4.0. Damn those standard deviations! I’m now tainted with a 3.9 GPA. No Dean’s list for me this semester. ::sigh::

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Well, I managed to attend five high schools before I finally quit and got my Good Enough Diploma. While in high school my grades fluctuated wildly–I often made straight F’s, although I did get on the honor roll several times as well. I’m currently a college sophomore with a 4.0 GPA. About half my classes are very easy. The other half range from mildly difficult to extremely hard. I work very hard at all of them, though. I think determination is more important than raw brain power in getting good grades, although a good high school education also seems to help. The ability to find out who the good teachers are and who the bad teachers are prior to registration also makes a big difference.

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High school: 3.99(stupid Mr. Linster and the A- in Chem)

Freshman year of College 3.92
Sophomore: 3.00
junior: 2.15
first semester of Senior(graduated a semester early) 1.7

First year of grad: 0.5
Second Year of Grad 0.0

At that point it became clear to me I didn’t want to be in school anymore. :slight_smile:

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I really don’t know what mine was in high school - it was likely between 3.5 and 3.9, based on what I remember of my grades.

Undergrad, my overall was a 2.8, mainly because I went in pre-med and it took me 1.5 years to realize that it really wasn’t what I wanted to be doing. Within my major it was around a 3.2. I may have changed majors, but I still didn’t apply myself as well as I could have.
First semester grad (last fall, seven years after finishing my BA), I managed a 4.0. This semester has been a little tougher, and while I don’t expect a 4.0, I think I will manage at least a 3.5 for the semester, putting me at a 3.75 to date.

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My high school GPA senior year (six years ago) was something like 2.83. I slacked like a mofo, basically. I’m currently a junior undergrad (took a couple years off :)) with a GPA that’s in the vicinity of 3.7 or so.

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In high school, if I recall correctly, My GPA was a 3.7 or something like that (I think I calculated it correctly, my high school didn’t use the GPA but my average was just over 80%). My GPA for my four years of university was a 3.12.

I’ve never been a particularly dedicated student. If I’m not interested in a particular subject, going to the class or studying for it goes WAY down on my list of priorities (somewhere below counting the hairs on my head).

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I went to two high schools, both of which gave “bonuses” for AP/Honors classes, but they were different bonuses. I don’t think my transcript corrects for that difference, but I ended up with a 4.2 GPA at graduation. My second high school didn’t officially rank, so I only know that out of a class of 109 I was one of the top ten.

My college GPA, counting my post-bac work for a teacher’s certificate as part of my undergrad degree but not counting the two master’s seminars I’ve taken these last two summers, is around a 3.2. It would have been higher if I hadn’t gotten sick my senior year and flunked two non-essential courses because my attendance was so low. :frowning: I should have gone to the professors and begged for mercy, but I was stupid and shy and didn’t.

At my first high school, I was essentially cruising through. Very little effort was required in any area except band, which was of course my favorite subject at the time. My second high school was the state math/science academy, and I did work very hard there to get the grades I got - and loved every minute of it. (Except for the two programming courses I had to take, which were in Pascal and taught by an airhead who did not have a single trace of the hacker nature.) College was a little easier than the academy, but much harder than my first high school, and if I’d chosen to take more challenging courses it would have equalled the academy - I wasn’t very focused in college. (Thus having to go back and get my teacher’s certificate.)

I’m looking forward to going back and finishing my master’s degree, which I don’t expect to be very difficult, as it will be at the local state college and not at my undergrad university. I hope to go back there for my doctorate, but that’s years down the line yet.

Yeah, I like being a student; how can you tell? :wink:

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I don’t remember my high school GPA. It wasn’t impressive.

My college GPA went down over time from 4.0 to 2.9, but it’s back up at a 3.0 right now. My whole life just got thrown out of whack, though, so it’s anybody’s guess when I’ll be finishing school.

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I graduated from high school with a 3.91 GPA. I could never seem to pull an A in English for some reason…I even got a D once in that horrible junior World Literature/Speech class. I got straight A’s in everything else…even four years of Spanish and Phy Ed. Guess what? Except for English (which was, ironically, my favorite class), I didn’t do a bit of studying for anything. I don’t think I was awake more than an hour all semester in my senior Government class. I almost paid for it too as I maintained an 89% average the entire semester. I pulled the second best grade in the class (due to my essay responses, I suppose) on the final, though, so I was able to salvage the A.

I slept through Spanish as well. I was able to listen to the lecture to listen to the language rules while doing my homework, spend about five minutes committing new words to memory, and get a good half hour nap. I pulled over 100% average over the four years as the teacher offered a lot of extra credit.

When I got to college, I fell apart. I was able to develop a study schedule, but the fact that I had to work full time to support myself hurt me more than anything. I was able to pull a 4.0 GPA in the first and second quarters (yes, we ran on quarters back then, not semesters), but I dropped out in the final quarter. I was doing horribly, struggling between a D and an F in three of my four classes. I guess I burned out. However, my plan was to drop the three courses in which I was doomed to fail and to try to finish the English class in which I was coasting along at a 98% (don’t ya love the irony? I had been at the top of the bell curve in this particular instructor’s courses all year long after suffering through a C average in English during high school).

The grade was determined half by a series of five papers we had written over the course of the quarter. This is what I was able to ace.

A quarter was determined by a final critical paper of a work of American literature of the students choice (of course, it had to be approved). The final quarter was determined by the final essay test. The final paper was to be turned in at the time of the final test.

I stayed up all night the night before to make sure I would pass this one final obstacle in my road to a barely-marred-with-incompletes 4.0 average in my freshman year of college. I didn’t intend to fall asleep, either…but I did. I slept right through the deadline for the paper and the test.

I spoke with the instructor afterwards. His general policy would be to give 0’s on both. However, his decision is something I will never forget. I had been his student all year long, so he knew the effort I put forth. He also knew of the difficulty I had been experiencing as the year had dragged on. He gave me half credit on the paper, and he offered to give me half credit on the test. I accepted the offer on the paper, which gave me just enough of a grade to get me to a D. I declined to take the test mostly because I was just too burned out.

Final GPA: 3.67

And I haven’t been back.

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Having AP and Honors courses being weighted is the best! :slight_smile:

As a junior, I averaged about a 3.6 or so. This past quarter, (the third nine weeks of senior year) it was something like a 4.6 or something much higher than all three previous years. I didn’t take no stinkin’ math or foreign language class :smiley: much to the astonishment of my guidance counselors.

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My overall GPA in high school was 3.4. I was very unbalanced, scholastically - I was in honors and AP social studies and humanities courses, but could barely scrape through with Cs in math and science courses. Of course, now I’m a total science geek. Wish I’d realized this when I was in school.

I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz, where letter grades were optional school (although they instituted the things my senior year), so I don’t have a college GPA. Just a forty page transcript of little essays on moi.

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Hm, subtract the word school in the second paragraph of my previous post.