GPA putting you at the bottom of the class ?

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1) GPA =?
2) putting you at the bottom of the class =?

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User A:

I guess its too late to be having these thoughts since im already accepted, but do people still have time to go out on the weekends? Do people hoenstly study from morning til midnight every day? I find i hard to believe people claim not to be able to find an hour or 2 to go out for a drink or hiking.

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Medical school is taking 24 credit hours of science courses a semester with a 3.0 GPA putting you at the bottom of the class.

That's about it. How bad that is and how much work that requires will depend on you...

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[+3] - Joe Nation - 04/21/2011No. They already know everything. Joe(go ahead. ask them.)Nation

@oristarA,

Grade point average.

Most schools use a scale of 0-4 to numerically track a student's overall performance. Each A earns a 4.0, each B=3.0, C=2.0, etc. The variants of the letter grades are accounted for as well (B+ = 3.33, B- = 2.67). All of the grades are averaged and presented as a cumulative grade point average.

A student with a 3.0 GPA (solid B student) is at the bottom of the class of students admitted to med school.

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@oristarA,

GPA: Grade Point Average

An A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C: 2.0, etc.

Your GPA is the average of the various grades you received. So if you get all A's, then you have a 4.0 GPA.

Then, separately, there are class rankings. The people with the highest GPA are at the top of the class, the people with the lowest GPA are at the bottom of the class.

In that sentence, someone is saying how difficult medical school is, and how competitive it is. A 3.0 GPA is not generally that bad, but in medical school, everyone does so well that a 3.0 could put you at the bottom of the class ranking.

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@JPB,

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Most schools use a scale of ...

Most schools in the US (and Canada??).
We do not have GPA in Australia.

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@JPB,

Thank you.

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@dadpad,

Yeah, probably. I have no idea about European grading scales either.

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@sozobe,

sozobe wrote:

GPA: Grade Point Average

An A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C: 2.0, etc.

Your GPA is the average of the various grades you received. So if you get all A's, then you have a 4.0 GPA.

Then, separately, there are class rankings. The people with the highest GPA are at the top of the class, the people with the lowest GPA are at the bottom of the class.

In that sentence, someone is saying how difficult medical school is, and how competitive it is. A 3.0 GPA is not generally that bad, but in medical school, everyone does so well that a 3.0 could put you at the bottom of the class ranking.

Excellent!
Thank you.

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@dadpad,

You have schools in Australia!?

Smile

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@JTT,

No.
They already know everything.

Joe(go ahead. ask them.)Nation

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@dadpad,

dadpad wrote:

Quote:
Most schools use a scale of ...

Most schools in the US (and Canada??).
We do not have GPA in Australia.

It is not used in Canada either.

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@oristarA,

Old PU (Purdue) uses a six point system---I always have to explain a 5.7 GPA to anyone not familiar with PU.

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@ehBeth,

Canada has a wide mix but the 4.0 GPA is fairly widely used.

CANADIAN UNIVERSITY GRADING SYSTEMS
The following table shows the grade points and percentages used at Canadian universities.

http://www.sfu.ca/dean-gradstudies/facstaff/grading/system/

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There are GPAs, and there are GPA's. Not all GPAs are equal even with the same score. The only GPA that counts is what you do with your education. It should always be a challenge with yourself, not with others.

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@cicerone imposter,

Noble thoughts, CI, and I agree, but the system is much more cut throat than that.

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@JTT,

Yes it is, but we're talking about students hugging the "bottom of the class."

That used to be me through high school.

Also, there's a current magazine that lists the preferred colleges and universities, their SAT/GRE scores, admissions, and rankings. I was surprised to see CIT higher than MIT or Harvard. Of coarse, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Berkeley, and some others are always listed as the place to get your education. I was never in that league, so attended Cal State Hayward when it was a small school (less than 3,000 students), but got a pretty good education, and had four job offers before I even graduated (because it had a good reputation for accounting grads).

Some of us who didn't do well in grade school ended up doing better than average in our work careers, and I believe that's what counts.

Study hard, and work hard; it pays off.

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@cicerone imposter,

How to pronounce the word cicerone?

My E-C dict tells me:

[sisə'rəuni]

Is it right?

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@cicerone imposter,

cicerone imposter wrote:

Yes it is, but we're talking about students hugging the "bottom of the class."

That used to be me through high school.

Also, there's a current magazine that lists the preferred colleges and universities, their SAT/GRE scores, admissions, and rankings. I was surprised to see CIT higher than MIT or Harvard. Of coarse, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Berkeley, and some others are always listed as the place to get your education. I was never in that league, so attended Cal State Hayward when it was a small school (less than 3,000 students), but got a pretty good education, and had four job offers before I even graduated (because it had a good reputation for accounting grads).

Some of us who didn't do well in grade school ended up doing better than average in our work careers, and I believe that's what counts.

Study hard, and work hard; it pays off.

CIT stands for California Institute Of Technology?
Cal State Hayward stands for California State University, East Bay ?

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