Comments on: What’s a good GPA in college?

By: ILES

ILES — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:52:28 +0000

Hi, actually im in the US, I’m in an english program to have the toefl, what I want to know is how can I get my GPA higher?
I have 5 years in statistics in Algeria, I didn’t yet submit my transcripts to the university to give me my GPA but I guess that I will have between 2.2 and 2.5, I want to get my GPA higher, can I apply for a college and took only 2 classes like microeconomics, descriptive statistics to get my GPA higher ??? because in microeconomics I have like 8/20 and descriptive statistics 7/20
How can I do ? please answer me on my mail if it is possible ; clavente@hotmail.com
thank you

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:34:06 +0000

In the third sentence, I meant “I DO know that my GPA of 3.95 put me easily into the winning category, but I DON’T know if the number 3.95 makes this obvious.”

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:31:03 +0000

I went to a private college with a medium-high reputation, and in the spring of my fourth year I was one of the recipients of their top academic award which they give to graduating seniors who have a cumulative GPA of 3.9 or higher as of their final semester. Out of approximately 180 seniors, 9 of them got this award. I don’t know if my GPA of 3.95 (which went up to 3.96 when that semester was over) put me easily into the winning category, but I don’t know if the number 3.95 would make people guess that I got much higher grades than were necessary to put me in the top 5% of my class. A quite large portion of the students made it to 3.5, but every level you move toward the 3.9-4.0 range at a private liberal arts college, the less and less people reach the next level. So there is more difference between, say, a 3.7 and 3.9 GPA than there is between a 3.5 and 3.7 GPA. (Statistically, this is comparable to there being many more people with an IQ between 120 and 130 than people with an IQ between 130 and 140.) If people would keep that in mind, they would have a greater appreciation for GPAs that are higher than 3.9.

By: John @ Curious Cat Investing Blog

John @ Curious Cat Investing Blog — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:30:05 +0000

Not many employers care that much about your grades. Many care about having the degree. But even that doesn’t matter that much. We hired a software developer 3 years ago without a degree. He has been excellent – probably the best we have hired. Of course some other companies foolishly probably would not have hired him because he did have the degree.

Grades often matter a great deal for graduate school. Other than that concentrate on actually learning. Challenging courses where you learn and grow are much more important that an easy A in some random course.

Some employers do care. I think Google is great and a great place to work. They care a lot about grades. Which I think is silly but… They developed from a graduate school atmosphere and adopted some of those practices (including caring about grades).

Also some high paying companies care about grades, when looking to hire graduates right out of school. It is foolish (grades are not a great measure for how valuable an employee will be) in my opinion but they do. After you have been out of school 2 years almost no-one cares what your grades were. Most of those that care about grades want 3.7 or above in the courses that matter. Those that care much about grades (a small number) look for those with grades at the very top.

By: tommy@home improvement

tommy@home improvement — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:15:46 +0000

wow that’s really high standard :(
let me share you my country standard
3.5+: Very Excellent
3.0-3.5: Excellent
2.0-3.0: average
-2.0 : Poor

thanks :D