Does your first year count towards your overall GPA in your school?

[sciencewhiz]

Originally posted by: Albis
i know cal tech, brown, and mit are pass / fail your first semester and / or first year

That's because a student with a 2.0 GPA at one of those schools is still in the top 2% of all college students.

 

[A5]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Yes

And to hell with Georgia!

 

[Lenine]

Originally posted by: sciencewhiz

Originally posted by: Albis
i know cal tech, brown, and mit are pass / fail your first semester and / or first year

That's because a student with a 2.0 GPA at one of those schools is still in the top 2% of all college students.

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that, especially during first year, a 2.0 GPA is junk anywhere.

 

[Albis]

esp at MIT b/c they use a 5.0 scale LOL

 

[ruffilb]

At my old HS, not only did the 1st year count, but 7th and 8th grade counted too, at least the honors classes did.

 

[Yossarian451]

Originally posted by: erub
Texas A&M has a weird system, they just implemented it, and I don't like it. During your first year, they offer grade exclusion - if you make a D or an F in a class, you can have it excluded from your GPA calculation. It will still be on your transcript but not in the calculation. You can do this for up to 3 courses (of any hour lengths). The problem is that it only allows you to exclude D's or F's - encouraging ppl to try to fail when they could make C's. I know of several ppl personally who have done this, since the policy went into effect last fall (it was available for the current students to retroactively do it as well). I think anybody should be allowed to exclude any mark - why cannot I not exclude a B when its hurting my GPA?

Well, I goto TAMU, and I lucked out because I only failed one course, it was cal 2 thanks to common exams and a poor professor. The only thing that saved me was that it was really the only bad course grade that I had. I got to stay in engineering, thanks to the retroactive effect. Though I haven't actually seen people doing stuff just to exclude. Though the same problems can be seen for q-drops, and other policies in general. Though I do know that witht the exception of the first year policy ours is a litle stricter because unlike many of our neighboring universities, all of you course are calulated in, even thouse you retake. Which means unlike some of your ivy league schools *hmm* that only take the best scrore you make for each particular course everything you do is in the average.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: erub
Texas A&M has a weird system, they just implemented it, and I don't like it. During your first year, they offer grade exclusion - if you make a D or an F in a class, you can have it excluded from your GPA calculation. It will still be on your transcript but not in the calculation. You can do this for up to 3 courses (of any hour lengths). The problem is that it only allows you to exclude D's or F's - encouraging ppl to try to fail when they could make C's. I know of several ppl personally who have done this, since the policy went into effect last fall (it was available for the current students to retroactively do it as well). I think anybody should be allowed to exclude any mark - why cannot I not exclude a B when its hurting my GPA?

People go to TAMU for academics? I thought it was all about football and acting like a dumbass.

 

[Feldenak]

Originally posted by: Whisper
Yes for both UGA and Emory...and I'll go ahead and throw a yes in there for LSU as well.

You can add Auburn to that list as well.