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Tue Jun-07-05 07:27 PM
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What was your Worst / Best GPA for a semester - trending up or down? |
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Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 07:37 PM by RPM
In light of the recent discussions of Kerry's grades at Yale, I am conducting some informal research into people's improvement as students while in school.
Your personal results would be appreciated in seeing whether improvement is a general trend...
In the interest of full disclosure - here are my worsts/bests:
Law School: 2.63 (first semester, 1L) / 4.0 (second semester, 3L) Undergrad: 2.95 (second semester, freshman year) / 3.51 (second semester, senior year)
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:29 PM
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1. Worst 1.8 (First semester in College, 4 Classes) |
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Best 3.8 (Second to last semester in college, took six classes too!)
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:30 PM
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2. Worst: "I" (incomplete) |
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as I dropped out.
Best: "I", as I dropped out.:think:
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:30 PM
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:32 PM
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5. trending up or trending down? |
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:35 PM
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Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 07:35 PM by nini
If I could re-do my first year I would have had about a 3.8 :-(
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:31 PM
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4. You're asking me to remember back 40 years... |
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Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 07:32 PM by HullBoss
Sorry, I can't recall, except that I know I had a few 4.0 semesters, and enough that weren't to bring my overall GPA down to around 3.2 if I remember right.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:32 PM
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7. trending up or trending down? |
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did you finish strong or start strong?
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Tue Jun-07-05 09:04 PM
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27. If I remember right... |
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I think I finished high because I was done with all that stupid math that I had to take to get a BS, and I was finally taking classes that were more interesting to me. I really didn't care too much for the first couple of years. I think I had 5 A's and a B my last semester, and that was in spite of working 40 hours a week and partying like crazy. I could never carry on like that these days.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:32 PM
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0.0 - quit going to class 4.0 - started paying for it myself
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:35 PM
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11. funny how that works... n/t |
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:34 PM
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8. That would be the 4.0 of my final 8 semesters |
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:36 PM
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:57 PM
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19. Yeah, but I failed social skills in kindergarten |
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and THAT has proved to be more important.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:34 PM
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2.3
Last few Trimesters (I went to Northeastern U) 3.6
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:36 PM
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13. Worst: 1.2. Best: 3.8 |
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:36 PM
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14. I don't have much to go on. |
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I graduated high school with a 3.7
My grades in college, I have blocked out, though I do remember knocking the socks off my freshman discourse instructor. ;)
I later dropped out of college, but went back later and put myself through radio school (it was a vocational/technical school, really, though they did offer regular college courses, some of which I took). I had a 4.0 every semester and graduated with a 4.0.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:40 PM
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15. Worst: 2.0 (divorce effect) Best: 3.5 (thought I was happily married) |
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and husband was super-supportive as a non-traditional student.
LOL.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:42 PM
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16. Worst would be 1.3 (not a typo). Best was 4.0, final 4 semesters... |
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That ripping 1.3 made me subject to academic dismissal, so a torch was lit under me for the following spring -- I actually showed up and stayed awake! :evilgrin:
Grad school (Art): Lowest was 3.6, the rest were 4.0.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:43 PM
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with 5 classes in freshman year.
4.0 a few semesters in gradual school.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:44 PM
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18. good, bad, then good again |
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Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 07:45 PM by VelmaD
I started out on the Dean's List my freshman year. 4.0 both semesters I think. Then I had a little nervous breakdown. My grades went in the toilet. I was even on academic probation for a while. Once I got things back under control and figured out what I wanted to do with myself my grades went back up. All As with a few Bs my last 2 years of undergrad.
Grad school I made excellent grades...somewhere around a 3.5 gpa I think...may have been a littel higher...it's been a few years.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:57 PM
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20. 2.5 Freshman year/ going up |
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First semester was awful. Calculus, chemistry...ugh.
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Tue Jun-07-05 07:59 PM
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21. the Worst was my first semester.... 2.1 |
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The best was a couple 4.0s in my junior and senior years.
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:01 PM
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22. I don't fit that pattern |
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First semester: 3.98 Only non-4.0 that semester? "Freshman Year Introduction". Like I needed that?
Best was 4.0. Worst... probably a 3.1? I don't remember. Overall GPA when I left school was a 3.83.
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:02 PM
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23. worst: 2.33 (first semester). best: 3.3 (2nd sem. soph. year) |
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I did a little worse my jr. and sr. year because I started to work alot (had bills to pay). Work took up much of my time.
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:04 PM
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Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 08:04 PM by mark414
3.77...first semester 2.86...second semester...stupid biology
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:05 PM
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25. Well, I have 2 semesters under my belt thusfar |
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So--
Fall: 3.54 Spring: 3.05
Last semester was kinda disappointing, but my GPA will hopefully be boosted by these summer classes I'm taking now. :)
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Tue Jun-07-05 08:07 PM
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26. two different schools but |
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1.67 second semester sophomore year 4.0 first semester junior year but 5 years later...
needed a break much?
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Tue Jun-07-05 09:21 PM
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Actually, my grades are fairly similar to your's:
Law School: 2.75 (first semester, 1L)/ 3.67 (second semester, 3L) Undergrad: 2.6 (second semester, freshman year)/ 3.8 (second semester, senior year)
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Tue Jun-07-05 09:23 PM
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29. Did you just add the trending part? |
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I was the first post to this thread and don't remember the trending part?
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Tue Jun-07-05 10:22 PM
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30. it was implied in the text of the first post |
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i made it more explicit - i had to clarify myself
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Wed Jun-08-05 07:49 AM
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31. Worst: 3.2 (thanks, Prof. W); Best: 4.09 |
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Edited on Wed Jun-08-05 07:50 AM by BlueIris
I was a geek, what can I say?
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Wed Jun-08-05 01:17 PM
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37. I also once got a 4.03. |
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No, it wasn't through AP credit (although I had a pile of that when I started college). The university at which I did my undergraduate work allowed professors to give students the occasional A+. I was a reeeeeaaaaalllly anal-retentive grade-whore. Also, I took my academic work extremely seriously in college. Long, involved stories, I guess, but there were a couple of terms in which instructors gave me A+s and my average went up over a four-point because of my overachievement in those courses at those times. My college transcripts actually look kind of strange in that respect.
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Wed Jun-08-05 07:51 AM
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32. Undergrad: 1st semester 2.83 |
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Somewhere in my junior year: 3.92
give or take a couple .01 points.
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Wed Jun-08-05 12:06 PM
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34. Worst 1.8 (freshman undergrad) Best 4.0 (high school & grad school) |
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Wed Jun-08-05 12:36 PM
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35. Worst: 2.9, Best: 4.0 |
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Wed Jun-08-05 12:41 PM
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the worst was in the Spring of my Soph year and the best was in the fall of my soph year. I'm probably a bad example because my cumulative GPA is 3.86, so I get pretty good grades in general
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Wed Jun-08-05 07:06 PM
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38. my worst this year was 2.88 in 6th grade, |
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Edited on Wed Jun-08-05 07:07 PM by Steve Nash is god 13
best 3.00
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