Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc...
by taormina on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:31PM
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You can call a 3.0 GPA "low" but it's also Dean's List at GT....
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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc...
by filoleg on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:11PM
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My bad, I didn't mean "low" as in "bad". I meant "low" in terms of what people would consider "impressive". 3.0 won't get you into any respectable med school, and 3.0 is also pretty much a very bare minimum required to get into a decent grad school program.
While keeping 3.0 at GT might be a fairly difficult task, it is more than doable, and it wouldn't be considered by most GT students as some ungodly achievement. For comparison, the average GPA for fraternity members at Georgia Tech for Spring 2020 was 3.7 (which is higher than the average GT student GPA, but not by some crazy amount, and I think is a pretty good proxy for showing that 3.0 is not something that only a small number of students can achieve).[0]