I got a B in a class I attended twice.

[bisonbison]

Spam -

in most american colleges/universities, an A is the best possible grade:

A = 4.0
A- = 3.67 (3.7)
B+ = 3.3
B = 3

and so on and so forth.

Depending on your school and it's grade inflation and your major and your zodiac sign, a GPA around 3.5 is either good or average.

[spamuell]

Thanks bison.

[CallMeIshmael]

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a GPA around 3.5 is either good or average.

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really?

I am not american, so I dont have any friends who attend an american school outside of mine... which means I have no idea what is good/average at other schools.

[uw_madtown]

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a GPA around 3.5 is either good or average.

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really?

I am not american, so I dont have any friends who attend an american school outside of mine... which means I have no idea what is good/average at other schools.

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From my experience, 3.0 is average, 3.5 is good, 4.0 is awesome.

[edtost]

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a GPA around 3.5 is either good or average.

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really?

I am not american, so I dont have any friends who attend an american school outside of mine... which means I have no idea what is good/average at other schools.

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From my experience, 3.0 is average, 3.5 is good, 4.0 is awesome.

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for some reason, my school has decided to rank students into 'quintiles' .... the cutoff for the 5th was something like a 3.1

[uw_madtown]

FWIW, this class didn't sound easy when I signed up for it. This happens pretty frequently, where a class just turns out to be a cake class that isn't worth my time. If I didn't have other things I consider more important, obviously I could have pulled an A by, you know, reading. Or showing up to class. But if I can essentially take a B in a class for doing virtually nothing, it lightens my load and allows me to do better in classes that I might actually learn something from.

I find it fascinating. I'm not at some Ivy League school, but UW is a pretty damn good school and I cannot believe how often I end up in classes that require little to no effort. It happens almost every semester.

[CallMeIshmael]

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I'm not at some Ivy League school

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Sorta off topic, but, from what I've heard, Harvard and Brown are both very easy once you get in.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?

[stinkypete]

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Sorta off topic, but, from what I've heard, Harvard and Brown are both very easy once you get in.

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this is true.

[mmbt0ne]

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I'm not at some Ivy League school

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Sorta off topic, but, from what I've heard, Harvard and Brown are both very easy once you get in.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1121-02.htm

I had a link to a syllabus too, where the grade breakdown was something like 30% A+, 25% A, 25% A-, 15% B+, 5% B but apparently I deleted it.

[Supersetoy]

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FWIW, this class didn't sound easy when I signed up for it. This happens pretty frequently, where a class just turns out to be a cake class that isn't worth my time. If I didn't have other things I consider more important, obviously I could have pulled an A by, you know, reading. Or showing up to class. But if I can essentially take a B in a class for doing virtually nothing, it lightens my load and allows me to do better in classes that I might actually learn something from.

I find it fascinating. I'm not at some Ivy League school, but UW is a pretty damn good school and I cannot believe how often I end up in classes that require little to no effort. It happens almost every semester.

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What's your major?

At UW (probably at many schools...and I just graduated last year as an Information Systems major) it's easy to pass classes without attending them. As long as you can easily grasp concepts and test well, college is a piece of cake.

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