Grades after first quarter of college

[CurtCold]

C= continue

 

[Reel]

Originally posted by: Lithium381

Originally posted by: fizmeister

Originally posted by: Lithium381
How do you guys get a 3.8 if you've got all A's?!! How does the + - system work with grades? I've never used it before....


and no, i type most of my essays in the 30 minutes before class 😀

+- 1/3 of a point, if I recall correctly.

So it's the normal letter grade GPA, then you add the 1/3 points where appropriate?

At UF, no -'s, just +'s:

A: 4.0
B+:3.5
B :3.0
C+:2.5 and so on

 

[psianime]

I had a rough time in English first qr. too.

-psianime

 

[bmd]

My GPA after first term at Caltech: 0.0

(All frosh are on Pass/Fail first 2 terms, passed it all muahaha 🙂)

 

[Deeko]

2.7.....meh

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: Deeko
2.7.....meh

Hey, I got the same thing 🙁

 

[ManSnake]

0.00 I failed study hall :Q

 

[Parrotheader]

Now that I'm safely out in the real world for a few years and doing ok for myself, I can look back fondly at my first semester in college and ROFLMAO. Who am I kidding? I even laughed at it THEN! My GPA that first semester came very, very close to rivaling Bluto's from Animal House, which was fitting because he studied about as much as I did (except I managed a 0.6 since I actually showed up to one of my afternoon classes occasionally). But those 4.5 months were some of the best of my life and I wouldn't change a thing, especially since I still managed to recover and pull out a strong GPA by the time I graduated. Plus, I did very well on my grad school exams so I didn't have a problem getting into grad school. I still thank my parents for being patient with me because they knew I was capable of more than what I did that first year. Congrats to those of you who studied hard (or even didn't study hard) and were rewarded with good grades.

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: CurtCold
C= continue

My brother has a similar saying since he has only one semester left and he only has one math class left (which he's always struggled in.) Apparently a D somehow counts if he passes this course so he's saying:

D = Diploma

 

[fizmeister]

First Semester at Rice University:

MATH 221: Honors Calculus III - A
PHYS 111: Honors Mechanics - A
CHEM 151: Honors General Chemistry I - A-
PSYC 101: Intro. to Psychology A-

That's a 3.82 GPA. Good for my first semester ever, I suppose. The latter two probably would have been better grades had I gone to class more often (I only showed up for exams for Psyc; I skipped every 3 classes for Chem, went solidly for the other two; go figure).

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: Lithium381
Well, i ended up with a 3.33gpa........which isn't BAD....better than i averaged all through HS....
Math 105 - A
Spanish 1 - A
English 1A - C



Go me I, i I geuss.....that C bugs me though!

 

[Glitchny]

hmm my first simester was good cept for one class

compsci A
French A
Seminar A
Oceanography B
Self defense Pass
Math D+

listening to my calc teacher was like taking math from a NYC cab driver... ended up with a 3.05 cause of it
damn meral

and i ahve to take class again before i graduate... maybe then i can get an english speaking teacher

 

[VBboy]

Hyperspace engine design: A
Temporal trigonometry: A
Handling of dangerous species: A-
Telepathy: A
Doom III programming: A

One more semester, and I get my degree!

 

[bleeb]

Study hard

 

[Mday]

Originally posted by: Lithium381
Well, i ended up with a 3.33gpa........which isn't BAD....better than i averaged all through HS....
Math 105 - A
Spanish 1 - A
English 1A - C

you only took 3 classes?

 

[hans007]

i had a 2.8 after a quarter, 3.0 after 2nd. and well i'm a 4th year and after my 1st quarter, i've got a 2.7

 

[Kerouactivist]

I don't know about you guys but, I dropped the whole quarter thing when I gottouta high school can everyone else drop it too.

 

[h8red]

I don't really understand the importance of grades. All it shows is that you can answer a particular question at a particular point in time. If I were to take the same tests that I took before I graduated I would probably bomb. When I graduated no interviewer asked what my GPA was

 

[fizmeister]

Originally posted by: h8red
I don't really understand the importance of grades. All it shows is that you can answer a particular question at a particular point in time. If I were to take the same tests that I took before I graduated I would probably bomb. When I graduated no interviewer asked what my GPA was

Grad school, med school, law school and later down the road, business school.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

What is all this quarter stuff??? Around here we have semesters.

 

[DigDug]

International Law - A
Corporations - B+
Copyright - B
Teaching Assistant - A

3.499. Drops my GPA from 3.635 to 3.603. Still in the top 7% of my law school class. Yay!