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.
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!!)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.