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Where do you rate 2.5GPA? Good, Bad or inbetween? The poster below you just said that the average GPA in his program was 2.7. Others in this thread have said they were satisfied with 2.5. That goes along with what I said.
That's one way to look at it, which is fair. I don't see what part of my post you're contesting. Are you suggesting that 75% is good or above average??
That's one way to look at it, which is fair. I don't see what part of my post you're contesting. Are you suggesting that 75% is good or above average??
Someone with a 2.0 (or near that), at least in recent years, had to take several classes over.
At many private colleges however, they drop (completely) the first try course from the record and substitute the second one; at public colleges, the failed or D courses usually stay on the record.
To get a sense of what GPAs use to be like back in the 1960s...
George W. Bush's GPA at Yale was 2.35
Al Gore's was 2.1 at Harvard
This article confirms these numbers. (Princeton average GPA was 2.52 in the 1950s, peaked at 3.35 in 2004 before deliberate deflation policy was enacted.)
GPAs only started going up a lot in the 1980s and particularly after late 90s.
That's one way to look at it, which is fair. I don't see what part of my post you're contesting. Are you suggesting that 75% is good or above average??
75% is good. I have enough experiences with lots of Colleges and have seen enough crappy professors or grade inflation or stricter grading etc. I also know that a good chunk of the graduation classes of the so called "top" Colleges have average GPA's below 3.0.
Add to that that some people have to work, care for their children etc. and can't spend 24/7 on campus to study. Saying that people who graduated with a 2.5 GPA are lazy or whatever, is just presumptuous. I'm not surprised, though. I've read enough arrogant comments in this forum. And I've read enough comments where people have inflated their GPA's and schools on here.
Last edited by Glucorious; 02-11-2012 at 08:35 PM..
75% is good. I have enough experiences with lots of Colleges and have seen enough crappy professors or grade inflation or stricter grading etc. I also know that a good chunk of the graduation classes of the so called "top" Colleges have average GPA's below 3.0.
Add to that that some people have to work, care for their children etc. and can't spend 24/7 on campus to study. Saying that people who graduated with a 2.5 GPA are lazy or whatever, is just presumptuous. I'm not surprised, though. I've read enough arrogant comments in this forum. And I've read enough comments where people have inflated their GPA's and schools on here.
I put 2.7 at average. Thus 2.5 would be mediocre. Even df175 said average for his/her program was 2.7.
I never said they were lazy though. There's plenty of valid reasons which may result in any gpa from 0 to 4. A 1.2 (30%) wouldn't be mediocre... it would be poor.
75% is good. I have enough experiences with lots of Colleges and have seen enough crappy professors or grade inflation or stricter grading etc. I also know that a good chunk of the graduation classes of the so called "top" Colleges have average GPA's below 3.0.
Add to that that some people have to work, care for their children etc. and can't spend 24/7 on campus to study. Saying that people who graduated with a 2.5 GPA are lazy or whatever, is just presumptuous. I'm not surprised, though. I've read enough arrogant comments in this forum. And I've read enough comments where people have inflated their GPA's and schools on here.
They just performed pretty average academically. Could have had an job. Could have been lazy. Could have not been very intelligent. In the end for whatever the reason the end result was average.
Based off of what I have experienced and know, GPA matters as far as getting your foot in the door, landing that coveted internship, or just separating yourself from the pack. Nowadays, I feel as if a 3.0 is the new 2.0 and, unless you have a 3.6+ you are going to have a very difficult time getting an internship and or job.
Case in point, I had a 3.466/4.0 and applied for an internship with JP Morgan Chase. For one 12-week internship, we had 40 applicants with an average GPA of around 3.65 from what I saw (looking at other students resumes), probably the reason I wasn't selected.
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