Poll of the Day > What was your high school GPA?

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honors and AP and all that on a 4.0 scale not some stupid 5.0 scale for specific classes

A lot.

Hell if I remember

I got some certificate signed by George Bush because of it, but for all I know tons of students got that

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I had 60s-70s most of the time, i was a big time slacker. We didnt do a gpa at my school

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Mid-90's. Don't remember specifically. 7th in my class.

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3.9

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It was like a 3.4 idk school doesn't matter if you get a good job.
I graduated college with a 2.4.

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I was a straight F student and I dropped out and never got a GED.

Judgmenl posted...

It was like a 3.4 idk school doesn't matter if you get a good job.
I graduated college with a 2.4.

tbh, most CEOs tend to have low GPAs.

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/295095

And a lot of HS valedictorians go on to do nothing with their lives. I remember one Jeopardy winner whose entire family had been valedictorians (although they might have come from smaller and less academically gifted schools) where he managed a grocery store or some shit, something that you don't even need a GED to do. I guess it kinda underscores why the education system kinda sucks, although generally people with higher GPAs will outearn those with lower GPAs even if society's top-earners tend to be people with lower GPAs.

Plus, in general, persistence trumps talent and intelligence when it comes to success.

https://i.imgur.com/yHEy3Ey.jpg

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Horrible, I think I was ranked 320th in my graduating class out of 350 students. I honestly didn't take school seriously till college (and I BARELY got into community college, I actually had to take an entrance exam before they would let me attend).

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I don't remember. At least 3.0. Probably 3.2 to be exact if I had to guess.
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Not very good, thank god for standardized tests.

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Didnt graduate, got a high school diploma.

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DrPrimemaster posted...

Not very good, thank god for standardized tests.

Nowadays colleges are starting to do away with those, lol. It's unsurprisingly, especially given scandals where Asian students with higher academic achievement were systematically -- and legally -- discriminated against thanks to Affirmative Action programs favoring diversity.

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4.0 had a full scholarship but didn't use it, graduated 4 years early, started 1 year late, and just didn't go to school for 4th grade (Was bored). Net avoided 6 years but kinda wish I had gone to high school even though people say I didn't miss anything (also wish I had gone to college instead of joining the AF on my 17th birthday).

Sadly you make really dumb choices when your young.

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wolfy42 posted...

4.0

wolfy42 posted...

Sadly you make really dumb choices when your young.

Not an academically rigorous school district? =p

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flunked out, graduated in an alternative program

i didn't get good at school until college

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I don't remember any of my GPAs

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100

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Was always in trouble in high school for barely maintaining Cs while in the top 99% on standardized tests. President's list in college, though, graduated Cum Laude, then to grad school.

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Zeus posted...

Not an academically rigorous school district? =p

I transferred to a private school (worked there as a janitor to afford it) at 15, which let me take 4 years of school in 1 year. Was a ton of work, but I thought school was a total waste (I tested 12 grade + in math and reading comprehension/vocabulary in 4th grade).

I had a VERY good memory when young, I didn't forget anything pretty much, even into my 30's I could memorize large amounts of data in a short period of time. I aced all the tests, the hard part was doing all the workbooks etc, which were basically a years worth of work (and had to be done before you could take the final tests).

Anyway the program I used was https://www.aceministries.com/what-is-a-pace

Basically you fill out workbooks then take tests at the end, nothing stops how fast you can do that except how long it takes you to fill out those workbooks pretty much. I was working contruction at the time when not at school, and had been since I was 13. I was getting paid $15 an hour (back then min wage was $5 an hour), and thought school was a total waste of time, but I still wanted to graduate. That was the solution I came up with.

I graduated with a 4.0 and was offered a full scholarship to a college (forget the name), but saw absolutely no point in going to college so I ignored it. I joined the AF at 17 because I wanted to get training in computer programming and was promised a job at Travis AF base (my test scores were extremely high so they promised me the moon basically to get me to join). I went with the AF (they all wanted me) because I did research and they had the best food lol.

Anyway after boot, when I was getting ready to transfer for training, the Gulf War ended and everyone started coming back. I got transfered to work as a courier on base until things sorted out, at which point they stated my guaranteed job was no longer available (due to people coming back that were already trained for it), and I could either A: Stay in and be trained as an electronic tech, or B: Leave the AF but it wouldn't be an honorable or dishonable discharge (since I hadn't been trained for a position yet).

I was bored with the courier job and eventually decided to leave. I went to a vocational school (9 months/8 hours a day) while working at Carl's Jnr at night (40 hours) and got my electronic techs degree that way. Still was faster/better then going to college at that point and I was making 13$ an hour (initially) and 6 months later got promoted to lead tech and got a $3 an hour raise (which turned out to STILL be lower than the people I was now training as I had no experience when I got the job (I was very upset about that though and left that job fairly soon after finding that out).

Only reason I regret any of it, is I eventually DID go to college and paid for it all, so taking that scholarship would have saved me a good $40k or so, but I just wasn't in the right place/mind space for it at the time, and I made good friends at the vocational school anyway. Ended up eventually graduating with a Masters in Education and a 3.97 GA (IT for AA/Communications/management for BA).

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In the first two years, it was a 1.2GPA and I was ranked 664/666 in my class.

Then my counselor removed all of my bad grades, including my Ds, and I really stepped up in the last two years and ended with a 3.5.

it was over 9,000, ok?

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Zeus posted...

Nowadays colleges are starting to do away with those, lol. It's unsurprisingly, especially given scandals where Asian students with higher academic achievement were systematically -- and legally -- discriminated against thanks to Affirmative Action programs favoring diversity.

Yeah I've heard about that. I've always resented the anti standardized test groups. They don't care about students who struggle in the classroom but do care about the ones that struggle on tests. Why is the ability to succeed on standardized tests less valid than grades.


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I think it was around 4.10 due to AP classes. I'm not sure what my unweighted GPA was.

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Unsure if we do that here, but I hated school, so I wouldnt have cared then, either.

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I have no idea. All I know is that I did well enough to not have to take remedial classes and I made the Dean's list each semester in college. I do know my college grades were better than my high school classes.

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Want to say 2.8 but could be misremembering. I did what was necessary for a 70 so people would leave me alone but outside of that i didnt care about grades. Hated college so quit during my 2nd semester.

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3rd in my class, 3.9 something

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3.00

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Probably a B- to B+. That's usually how I trend.

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I think I was ranked 16th in my class out of ~250. We didn't do 4.0 GPA scale, we had a 100 point scale. Mine was 96 point something. Our honors and AP courses also counted extra compared to regular courses. I remember our valedictorian and salutatorian had final scores of 100 point something.

I did the absolute minimum in school to pass. I think I had a 1.97 or something like that. I skipped class regularly. Did the bare minimum amount of homework. I still had a better testing average than kids that had perfect attendance. School was way too easy for me, a total waste of time. I learned more on my own than school ever taught me, college included.

In college I had a 3.5. Still didn't try all that much, I just actually attended class and did the assignments.

We don't do GPA for high school students here.

My grades were usually in the 75-85% range though. I wasn't interested in studying to mastery, I always put just enough effort in to get a comfortable understanding.

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I got all As. Mostly because early on it was hard being gay and I used that to deal.

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