# What was/is your GPA? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 12, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325 "2003-04-12T21:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Morelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morelin)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/21 "2003-04-13T03:17:08Z")
In high school, my weighted average was 94, and you had to have over 100 to be in the top 10. After 2 1/2 years at college, I was running 3.7+ every semester. [sub] And I slacked through every class I ever took [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/22 "2003-04-13T03:46:24Z")
In high school, it was 3.89, or 4.81 adujsted, meaning one extra point for an AP or Advanced class. In college, it’s currently 3.18 after five semesters, but it should increase slightly after this semester thanks to an easy religious studies class. ---
**Author:** ![verifier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e480ec/32.png) [@verifier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verifier)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/23 "2003-04-13T04:04:31Z")
Last semester I got a 3.88. I don’t know about this semester yet, I’m calculating a 3.78 right now. I almost got my first C :eek: Damn you Vertebrate Zoology! But, hey, what’s the point of this thread anyway? Is anyone reading anyone else’s post? I feel like I’m talking to a wall. ---
**Author:** ![slice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@slice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slice)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/24 "2003-04-13T07:34:21Z")
My high school GPA was a dreadful 2.8 because we had this total asshat principal who, for one year only (my graduating year), **dropped the weights off of AP and honors courses**. Had he not done that, I would have had something like a 3.3 or 3.4 and qualified for a lot more scholarships and aide. There is a special place in hell for that man. ---
**Author:** ![Washte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Washte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washte)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/25 "2003-04-13T10:24:28Z")
I was quite lucky in that school came very easily to me. Rarely studied, never had homework and was usually in the _brainiac_ classes. Even at university it was a matter of going with the flow and taking the courses. No real effort involved. Perhaps I should have tried harder, stretched myself for that 4.0… but why? High school GPA of 3.875 University GPA of 3.575 ---
**Author:** ![BewareTheLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@BewareTheLlama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BewareTheLlama)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/26 "2003-04-13T11:04:06Z")
I’m currently in highschool and my cumulative GPA is a 3.6. I had trouble adjusting to high school my freshman year and ended up with something like a 3.1. My sophomore year I was well-adjusted and ended up getting a 4.0 every quarter of the year, and so far I’ve done the same this year. As time goes on, it seems, I put forth less and less effort and manage to get the same grades… I have no idea why. ---
**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/27 "2003-04-13T14:02:13Z")
High School 4.2 if I remember correctly. Our Honours classes were weighted. I was still only 7th in the class, and I was tied for 7th. Pfft. University 3.2 - I mucked around a bit and had too much fun on top of having several jobs. Eh. Grad School 4.0 ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/28 "2003-04-13T14:04:11Z")
I took AP courses in high school, where an A counted as 5 points. I graduated with a 4.3 GPA. A’s and B’s in college. My strengths were English and history. I didn’t like math and science, even though I managed to get B’s in those classes. ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vampire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Space\_Vampire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vampire)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/29 "2003-04-13T14:28:24Z")
High school- 2.0. Kicked off college with a 4.1 but eventually finished around 3.6 after suffering through science classes and losing interest in the grind after returning from overseas study. ---
**Author:** ![preacherswife](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@preacherswife](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/preacherswife)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/30 "2003-04-13T17:21:53Z")
High School- thereabouts 3.5 College about the same. Damn math. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2003, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/31 "2003-04-13T17:34:54Z")
High School: 5.95. Thing is, my school used a wonky system whereby all honors courses counted as 6, regular courses counted as 5, and remedial courses counted as 4. I suspect my actual GPA would be about 3.95 to 3.9. College: 3.62. Unless you’re talking within my major, in which case, 3.85. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/32 "2003-04-13T22:43:09Z")
I’m a junior in high school. Right now, this semester, I’ve probably got a 3-point-something, because I’m definitely not getting an A in Business Tech. But overall, I’ve got a 3.6 and it would be much higher if I didn’t goof off in my freshman year. I normally get in the neighborhood of a 4.0 semester, no problem. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/33 "2003-04-13T23:29:44Z")
High School: Don’t remember. College (after 2 years): 2.87 :drooling smiley here: ---
**Author:** ![KeithT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KeithT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KeithT)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/34 "2003-04-13T23:42:10Z")
**High school: 3.97** Weighted grading for honors courses had been dropped about a year before I enrolled, and we didn’t have intermediate grades. As a result of my “B” in freshman Global Studies, I was one of two salutatorians, rather than one of _eleven_ valedictorians. **College: 3.59** I had a four-point as a first semester freshman, three and a half years ago. Things went downhill from there; as a sophomore, I earned my first “C” ever and fell off the Dean’s List. Since then, I’ve maintained a relatively constant 3.6, plus or minus 0.02. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/35 "2003-04-14T04:00:10Z")
Junior in college, 4.0. Looks like it’s blown this semester, though. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/36 "2003-04-15T03:58:24Z")
**High School:** 3.48 **College while still in high school** : 2.80 **College + transfer credits:** 2.98 ---
**Author:** ![Canadagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Canadagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/37 "2003-04-15T13:20:59Z")
Right now I have a 4.0, but don’t think that makes me a crazy school geek. I just do my work and naturally do well in school- guess I’m kind of lucky. And I play sports year round and have a life and go to parties, so don’t think I spend all my free time on homework or studying. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/38 "2003-04-15T16:09:13Z")
Not sure about high school, but I think it was something in the area of 2.6. Other than being lazy, unmotivated and procrastinating wildly, I have _no idea_ what happened there… Now on to the wonderful world of Junior College (hard to get into actual schools with sub-3.0 GPA and not taking SAT), I am taking 16 units, haven’t seen grades yet, but am expecting a 3.6 ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/39 "2003-04-15T16:23:07Z")
High school: were it non-weighted, probably about a 3.3; as reported ~3.6. My senior year I got a 4.733, the highest GPA possible. (You got one extra point for an AP course, but, due to scheduling, any given senior could take at most 4 and, to qualify as enrolled, had to take at least three other units worth of non-AP classes over the year.) College: 2.4-something. Law school: 3.9 (Graduated magna cum laude! Yay!) I never worked very hard – high school was easy; college was slightly harder but the increased opportunities for goofing off were what made the difference. Law school, while by far the hardest of the three, was still pretty easy if you went to class, which I did (unlike when I was an undergrad). –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/40 "2003-04-15T18:54:14Z")
High school, somewhere around a 3.9 on a 4 scale. Graduated 13th out of 435 IIRC. Undergrad, 3.6 on a 4 scale. Grad, depending on whether I get an A or a B in my last class, I’m looking at either a 3.83 or 3.92. I never felt like I had to do any work in HS and just kinda floated by. Undergrad had a few challenges but otherwise wasn’t too bad. My grad program has been more challenging because I’ve had some good (and tough) professors who really made you work for your grade – but I got a lot out of those classes, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325.md?page=3)