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High School - 2.5 GPA
Community College - 2.9 GPA
Undergraduate - 3.3 GPA
Graduate - 3.88 GPA
Outside of the grad school GPA, never attended grad school, that is similar to mine. I did horrible in high school because I was young, immature, and bored. The older I got and the more abstract and independent the classes got, the better I did.
HS: Didn't do GPAs, but in the top of the class, which meant nothing because:
BS: 2.9
Grad: 3.3
Post Grad: 3.5
If I broke my college GPA down, freshman year killed me. I got better as time went along, but I was so inadequately prepared for college coming out of my HS. First semester I was in calc. Had never even heard of calc before and there were plenty of people in class who had two years of it and several who had already taken college calc while in HS. By senior year I had already taken every math class my HS offered so they actually had the five or six of us who were college bound retake freshman year general math -- because that was the only way they could meet admission requirement for number of hours of math.
It took sophomore and junior year just to dig myself out of the hole I found myself in at the end of freshman year. It was really into junior year before I felt I was on equal footing to the other students there.
In high school I was always very careful to not let academics get in the way of my activities. I actually received a small scholarship for having been in more activities than anyone else in the school.
Somewhere I read that one of the criteria looked at in college was to graduate in the top half of your high school class. So I graduated 26th out of 53. Mission accomplished.
I was a typical jock my freshman year of college and barely attended classes. Hated the school, enjoyed the sports (football, baseball). Ended that year with a 2.47 GPA only cause the college was a step down from high school.
Transferred to a much better school and approached my first semester like I did the first year of college and really bombed it. Even got a 5 hour "D" and didn't retake it. I got serious and started teaching myself how to study for the first time in my life. I became an obsessive student about my grades and actually enjoyed it.
By graduation I worked my GPA up to about a 2.87 which considering where I started at my 2nd semester sophomore year, was pretty remarkable.
When applying for jobs, my GPA wasn't great, but it was easy to show my maturity by showing the gradual building of my academic record.
High school: 3.91 GPA
College: 3.4 GPA through 1 year
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