What is your college GPA?
 

Although GPA is definitely not a factual indicator of someones intelligence (in my opinion), I am curious as to where the rest of GFF stands in the college grading world. Do you think your GPA is a good indicator of your intelligence? Why or why not? What college do you attend? The poll is anonymous incase you want to keep your GPA private and just talk about whether its a good indicator of intelligence or not.

My GPA is about a 3.44 combined from a community college and BYU. Sometimes I feel like this number is a poor indicator of intelligence, I don't feel I deserve a GPA even this high. I try to find the easy way out of everything...

I am in the 3.0 - 3.2 range. I could be a lot higher but once a slacker, always a slacker.

Is GPA an indicator of intelligence? Not necessarily. I believe its more an indicator of work ethic and drive than intelligence, but that's just me.

lol... if you're in 3.0-3.2... why did you vote 4.0?

He didn't vote for 4.0. I voted for 4.0 because that's my GPA right now.

I think that a GPA is a pretty good indicator of intelligence, because if you don't have any kind of work-ethic you must be some kind of dumbass.

Ah thank you, sorry for pinning that on you RainMan. Wanna vote? :D

I graduated with a 3.2 GPA. I probably could have gotten higher if I actually gave a shit about my gen-ed classes, but alas, I was far too busy with classes that were relevant to my future to bother trying very hard.

I agree to a certain extent. I may have had a 3.2, but I'd say I have better work ethic than most of the chumps I know, especially when it's related to my field. If it's film-related work, I am motivated beyond belief. If it's something I don't care about, like Spanish, or anything else I'm not interested in, I tend to not care and not try as hard.

Gee, thanks. :rolleyes: When you take a kid on the lazy side, put him in school and fail to challenge him, you end up with a very poor college student. Yeah, that's right, I blame society. Personally, I'd rather be smart than be a hard worker.

Three years of engineering school has taught me one thing: I have to do something I enjoy. The common thread in all the advice I've been given lately has been that if you do what you love, you'll be successful. Maybe you think you're smart because you work hard, but I think I've figured a few things out long before most people do--when it's already too late.

Well, off to art school, I hope they don't mind my mediocre GPA. =p

If you're not being challenged in college, then it's nobody's fault but your own for choosing the wrong place to attend.

I wound up with a 3.63 at Carnegie Mellon doing my Materials Science & Engineering degree. I had around a 3.8 in my Materials Science classes, a little higher in my gen-ed classes (since they're so much easier), and around a 3.1 for my math/physics classes (figures I had to choose a minor in one of my worst subjects, haha).

Starting my first quarter here at grad school where I just need to keep a 3.0, but that still might be a struggle since these are definitely the hardest classes I've ever had.

2.967 in Astrophysics. So close to that 3.0

I'm in the 3.90-3.99 range. My school assigns slightly lower points for the "A-" grade, so two of those caused by GPA to be where it's at now. I'm working on a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, and it's been a rigorous few years so far. I had a 4.0 in my General Education classes, and a 3.9 in my pre-nursing courses.

GPA? Why can't we just use %? Oh and I have a 1... Seems like I'm the dumbest here.

I had a 4.0 in grad school and a 3.79 for undergrad. I really don't like GPAs because each school is different and it depends mostly on luck, really, and which instructors and classes you pick. Like some schools don't use the plus and minus system, and some instructors are jerks and openly admit to never giving out As on principle. One person's 3.0 could be like another person's 3.5. Sure, GPA often is an indicator of how much a person has blown off studying, but because schools and even classes within each school have different grading systems, I don't think it's fair to say someone who has, for instance, a 3.0 isn't trying hard enough.

I went to two colleges-one for my associates, the other for my bachelors.

The first college (for my associates) was just super easy. It felt like a step between high school (although in some ways easier than high school) and the second college I went to. Since I rarely studied, I wound up with A's and B's, so something like a 3.5 GPA.

In my second college though, I really boned up. I don't know what happened, other than I guess the fear of failing, so I studied non-stop (to the point that my <b> parents </b> of all people were telling me to relax). As a result, I pulled off all A's, and a 4.0 GPA there.

I think GPA's depend on a lot of factors. The courses, professors, university/college, what's needed for an 'A', 'B', etc. There would be some classes that would require an insane amount of work/intelligence to get an A. Others felt like if you just kept your eyes awake in class, you'd be fine.

However, a GPA is not the be-all, end-all. Common-sense, the ability to use the skills you picked up in college to learn other things, experience, and so forth are also important. THe last one (in terms of the real world) I was lacking which really can hurt if a person were to look for a job related to their field.

My GPA's like a 3. See, my sophomore year I reached critical mass in sheer arrogance. I decided that professors couldn't really teach me anything, so I would just read the books at home and not attend. Of course, I don't do homework on principal, which includes reading books while not attending classes. I barely passed the first semester, got an awesome .6 the second semester. Although I did pass all the necessary classes, despite not attending anything after mid-terms. That brought the GPA down a bit.

The next semester I decided to just attend every class and do every assignment. I still didn't study. 4.0.

GPA isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of your work ethic.

I used to have a 3.7 GPA at my old college down in Florida.

When I transferred back up to Michigan, they took all of my courses okay but none of the grades or academic standing, and I wound up with a "GPA transfer reset" of 2.0.

Almost three semesters later and I'm still working on bringing that up to a decent level. After my first semester of A's and B's I worked it up to a 2.7. Not very good considering that employers shun hiring student interns with low GPAs. So I kept plugging away and finally got it up above 3.1, a decent level considering what my GPA has been through.

Currently I think my overall GPA is somewhere around 3.18 because of the reset, but my per-semester GPA's are usually in the 3.6 area.

So if we are to believe this poll, 45% of everyone attending College has a 3.9GPA or higher. While I do believe that some people on this forum would hold such a mark, 45% is a little hard to believe.
(with 20 voters btw)

I got my Bachelor of Arts degree and finished out with a 2.92 GPA. Kinda fucked up my first couple years, thinking I'd be a Business major.

45%? I don't know how you did your math... but I do agree with you, it seems a little too high... it could be that the smart people are more willing to submit their GPA...

I had to check my resume since it's been so long, but I graduated with a 2.851 (Bachelor of Fine Arts, Journalism major). It was totally a work ethic issue. My high school history teacher told us that when he was in college, he had a choice between working his butt off and having no life to get a 4.0, or to take it easy and get a little less. I liked that philosophy, and given my career path, places that are hiring don't look at your GPA, only your degree and where you got it from. As far as I know, my GPA hasn't held me back any.

There's a huge difference between having work ethic and having the care to use it. GPA is not a very good indicator of intelligence for just that. Just because I can date regularly, party regularly, hold down two part time jobs and one full time and still make it to them on-time with the abilities necessary to perform well intact...

Well, that doesn't mean I necessarily want to, does it? Fuck no, I'd rather spend time flying around in my place, blowing shit up and skirts off.

Yeah, it's probably that people with higher GPAs are more willing to display it. Or as an elitist forum, we tend to keep a fairly intelligent population. Or, there's a lot of liars. Maybe all three.

Semester GPAs are pretty good usually, but my overall GPA is barely above a 3. It's a reminder of my shameful freshman year when I failed more than half of my classes. It was pretty humbling, because I thought I was smart shit in high school.

Matt, I've never heard of a GPA "reset", but I feel for you. That seems totally unfair, but it's good to hear that you're working through it.

At 20 votes
20% *4* claimed to have a 3.9-3.99
15% *3* claimed to have a 4.0

So 35%, typo/screwup in my previous post.

That being said like it was brought up, it is probably a combination of those with higher marks being more willing to flaunt it, and also perhaps a few flat out lying about it.

It kinda depends. A super-high GPA, especially in harder subject areas, probably means all time was spent studying, not doing extracurricular stuff. That's not necessarily true all the time, but neither is it vice-versa.

I did a whole bunch of stuff in college, between having a full-time job, joining several organizations and serving on the "boards" of most of those, and even being the chairman of the Relay for Life three years in a row.

Yeah, my GPA suffered for it a little (that and my first semester in college ruined it too, but for different and slightly hazy reasons), but I like to think I gained a whole lot more by participating in those activities.

4.0 going into my master's/phD program. Lord knows what it's at now. They keep paying for me to go abroad, so I assume they're happy with my work.