# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/41 "2003-04-15T19:13:47Z")
High school was a 3.1. I didn’t do homework. Period. I got into college and went into an extremely time-consuming major, taking 20-21 hours per semester (I had to do it, in order to graduate in 4 years), and I finished with a 3.57 GPA and graduated cum laude. Now I wish I had bothered to study in high school. I might have gotten into a better college. Ava ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/42 "2003-04-15T19:40:04Z")
High school was 3.975 (at my school, you HAD to use 3 decimals - the official school records were maintained with FIVE decimals, and we STILL had two students tie) - and I wasn’t in the top 30. College (for my brief visit) was 3.4 - 3.6. I’m supposed to go back this summer/fall. (And I’m TERRIFIED!!) ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/43 "2003-04-15T19:41:16Z")
I got around a 2.7 in high school and college. I could have done better, but I had important computer games to play. ---
**Author:** ![SpartanDC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@SpartanDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpartanDC)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/44 "2003-04-15T20:37:31Z")
4.0 in high school. I got a couple B’s, but they were all in honors classes. I think I finished 6th in a class of about 115. College started at a 3.46 and slooooowly slid to a 3.1 by the end. Not that I wasn’t smart; I just realized that internships and school paper experience were much more important to my career goals than classes. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/45 "2003-04-15T21:28:52Z")
3.85 high school (and then she discovered boys and beer…) 3.08 college ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/46 "2003-04-16T00:16:43Z")
3.2-ish for high school. Got a 1390 on the SATs, which allowed me to get into a prestigious public school on the west coast. 2.5 (barely) in college, at times I struggled mightily and almost got expelled once, but I did graduate. The bitch of it is, I always enjoyed school, yet could never understand how I could do so poorly in it. It wasn’t until two years ago, when I was 33, that I was diagnosed with ADD. It’s one of the bigger regrets in my life, how badly I did in school and screwed up my future. ---
**Author:** ![censored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@censored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/censored)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/47 "2003-04-16T00:59:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kyla \* > **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.** Same with me. AP everything for social studies and humanities, perfect and near-perfect standardized test scores, but Cs and Bs, with the occassional A, for science and math, and corresponding test scores. I’m heading off to UCSD next year. ---
**Author:** ![censored](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/35a633/32.png) [@censored](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/censored)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/48 "2003-04-16T01:03:22Z")
Ooops. 3.54. ---
**Author:** ![BadBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@BadBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BadBaby)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/49 "2003-04-16T01:47:20Z")
A 3.9 something in high school which I regret. For some bizzare reason I thought I could slack off just because it was so easy (not bragging, the darned school didn’t offer a single AP course and we had to petition to get them to offer trig). Dad explained how very wrong I was about the slacking, he surely did. My college GPA was decent, but I don’t remember the numbers. I received A’s and B’s as a Bio Medical Sciences major for the first two years and then made the Dean’s list the next two. Switching to Art, something I truly love, made a big difference. ---
**Author:** ![flybynight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@flybynight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flybynight)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/50 "2003-04-16T15:59:35Z")
Hmm… I think I had a 4.3 or something at the end - (I think AP courses were graded on a 5.0 weighted scale, regular ones on 4.0). I know I was first in my class out of 500 or so. College GPA wasn’t nearly as good (couldn’t even tell you what it was without looking it up), and I have no idea where I was in my graduating class, nor in my graduate school’s graduating class. I stopped caring about those things sometime during my freshman year I think. Funny how college can do that. Anyway, in high school I worked relatively hard, but certainly not any harder than everyone else in the AP classes (I won’t dare say I slacked off as much as some of the other kids that weren’t doing honors/AP coursework!). Actually, I have no idea how I ended up on top at the end, except for stupid luck. I certainly wasn’t trying for it, and felt kinda bad for a few people below me, since they were trying a lot harder than I was, and definitely wanted it more. But I did get into a sweet university, so I’m not complaining 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/51 "2003-04-16T18:11:53Z")
I have no idea what my high school GPA was - quite good, as I recall (but then, I went to a really crappy high school. So my high school GPA is no indication that I have anything resembling a brain). In college, I fought tooth and nail to graduate with a 3.0. I worked my ass off, but couldn’t beat the mid-2 range for my first 3 years of college, and I was bound and determined to crack 3 by graduation. Which I finally did. Yay! ---
**Author:** ![indyz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/fbc32d/32.png) [@indyz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indyz)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/52 "2003-04-17T06:37:26Z")
After expending almost zero effort over the duration, I graduated from high school with a 3.63, which, due to grade inflation from honors and AP classes, just barely put me in the top 20%. This winter I was kicked out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s computer science program (and the entire university) after three semesters with a final GPA of 1.8. I was pretty stupid for thinking that the same attitude that got me through high school would work in a highly competitive college program. By the time I realized how deep of a whole I had dug myself, it was to late to climb out. ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2003, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325/53 "2003-04-17T10:16:31Z")
1.8ish in High School(barely graduated) and 1.7ish (got supsended for having consequtive semesters with a sub 2.0)in College Its no wonder I don’t post in GD or why no one listens to me in GQ. Or why I can’t spell and have horrid sentance structure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-is-your-gpa/168325.md?page=2)