w00t! Time to brag about the grades...

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Akira13
Anyone else wish they could just get rid of a few "bad" semesters? I wasted a year on trying to get into the school of business at UW, and it screwed up my GPA. Now I'm pulling a 3.71 average in Electrical Engineering, but my overall is a 3.3 because of business school.

LOL, been there.
I've got like a 2.3 at my first school. I was 16 for the first month of college. I didn't have a clue what i wanted to do and didn't much feel like showing up to my classes. I was still too busy partying with my high school friends.
I spent the next 8 years alternating back and forth between part time school(1 or 2 classes) and working crappy jobs. Finally got a degree in General Science (2.3 GPA) and found out it was useless. So when I decided to go back and get a Computer Science degree, GPA was one of the main reasons I decided to switch schools. I worked my butt off for two years at my new school to get my CS degree and ended up with a 3.8 GPA overall. Since that was the relevant degree, there was no reason to list my GPA from the first degree and no employers cared about it. It was sure a lot more fun putting 3.8 on my resume.

So the bottom line is, you could always switch schools if you want a fresh start on your GPA.

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Dacalo
GPA is so misleading it's not funny

Isn't just funny how all these different courses are simplified to a number? It disregards how difficult the class is, who the professor was, what time of day the course is taken, and how large the class is.

Some majors are harder than others yet the one with higher GPA is thought as "superior"

I understand that in order to process such tremendous amount of grades requires a bureaucraticized process but I just find it odd.

Had a bad semester, huh?

It is true to a point. I've heard many horror stories about terrible profs and how there were much better ones for the same class.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Dacalo
GPA is so misleading it's not funny

Isn't just funny how all these different courses are simplified to a number? It disregards how difficult the class is, who the professor was, what time of day the course is taken, and how large the class is.

Some majors are harder than others yet the one with higher GPA is thought as "superior"

I understand that in order to process such tremendous amount of grades requires a bureaucraticized process but I just find it odd.

Had a bad semester, huh?

Actually no, I have a 4.0

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: pyonir

Originally posted by: Dacalo
GPA is so misleading it's not funny

Isn't just funny how all these different courses are simplified to a number? It disregards how difficult the class is, who the professor was, what time of day the course is taken, and how large the class is.

Some majors are harder than others yet the one with higher GPA is thought as "superior"

I understand that in order to process such tremendous amount of grades requires a bureaucraticized process but I just find it odd.

Had a bad semester, huh?

It is true to a point. I've heard many horror stories about terrible profs and how there were much better ones for the same class.

I haven't just heard stories....i am the stories. Try having a feminist (admitted she was) English prof. All the girls i was in that class with got A's and I wrote MUCH better than they did and got all B's.

 

Originally posted by: NewSc2

Originally posted by: FallenHero

Originally posted by: KEV1N
What's your major?

Law Enforcement and Justice Administration...AKA Criminal Justice. I dunno why Western Illinois renames it, but they do. Minoring in Fire Science.

That explains the high GPA.


j/k, but it's a lot harder getting a 4.0 in Chemistry. Every non-physical science class I've taken I've gotten an A in; I've yet to get a solid A in any physical science class (A- once, A's in labs, but labs don't count).

You are right in a sense...I have a friend who also pulled a 4.0 as a Bio-Chem major at Washington University in St. Louis...I think he deserves more credit than me.

CJ aint easy...but it isnt that hard either, not by a long shot.


Congrats to everyone else on the good grades.

 

[fizmeister]

4.23 this semester.

4.05 overall. Not bad for my freshman year in College (at a school generally considered one of the "meat-grinders" e.g. MIT, Caltech, Rice, Cornell, Chicago, etc.).

</brag>

 

[wyvrn]

I went to two colleges last semester. At one, had a 3.5 semester GPA and graduated with 3.85 overall. At the other, I had a 3.78 semester GPA and have a 3.868 GPA overall. I graduate next year.

This is all after having a 2.something GPA my first run through college. Of course then I was working full time along with full time school. My major for the first degree was Unix Administration, and for the one I am currently working on is Management Information Systems.

 

[Kyteland]

http://www.wbbm780.com/asp/ViewMoreDetails.asp?ID=22703

Top this guy. Granted it isn't college.

 

[Marshallj]

Yay for me. I was in the top 2% of test scores all through school. 98% of the country scored below me. And the sad part is that I didn't even study. Many students complained of unfairness since they felt that they tried their hardest to pass, while I was a slacker and would get A+'s each time and ruin the bell curve. They said that I should not be rewarded for inate abilities, as intelligence runs in my family (grandmom and sister were valedictorians of their classes) and that you should be rewarded for how hard you try. How pathetic is that?

I also got a perfect 100 in the comprehension section of the HSPT (I screwed up in the other section- 95- bleh)



This is the thread for bragging isn't it?

 

[OulOat]

Hoping to get a 3.0 overall in CS! Of all the econ classes I took, A's in all of them and no work what-so-ever. Talk about easy, I got the highest score on the final (97.5) in Advance Macro Economics by studying on the bus

 

3.7 this semester, 3.75 overall.

I'm damn happy.

 

[Mani]

I ended up with a pretty crappy GPA, but then again - I got recruited straight out of college at a top company and am making good money...just goes to show you how little good grades mean.

 

[Darein]

This quarter isn't looking too bad, probably around 3.5, won't know till middle of June though. I am just hoping to pull that gpa over a 3.0. Man I have messed up so many times, in classes that matter, that it isn't even funny.

 

[LongCoolMother]

i heard Bio-CHem at UCLA was tough.