What was your Worst / Best GPA for a semester - trending up or down?

[RPM]

In light of the recent discussions of Kerry's grades at Yale, I am conducting some informal research into people's improvement as students while in school.

Your personal results would be appreciated in seeing whether improvement is a general trend...

In the interest of full disclosure - here are my worsts/bests:

Law School: 2.63 (first semester, 1L) / 4.0 (second semester, 3L)
Undergrad: 2.95 (second semester, freshman year) / 3.51 (second semester, senior year)

[bigwillq]

1. Worst 1.8 (First semester in College, 4 Classes)

Best 3.8 (Second to last semester in college, took six classes too!)

[Dave Reynolds]

2. Worst: "I" (incomplete)

as I dropped out.

Best: "I", as I dropped out.:think:

[nini]

3. best 4.0... worst 2.3

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[RPM]

5. trending up or trending down?

[nini]

10. up

If I could re-do my first year I would have had about a 3.8 :-(

[HullBoss]

4. You're asking me to remember back 40 years...

Sorry, I can't recall, except that I know I had a few 4.0 semesters, and enough that weren't to bring my overall GPA down to around 3.2 if I remember right.

Blue_In_AK

[RPM]

7. trending up or trending down?

did you finish strong or start strong?

[HullBoss]

27. If I remember right...

I think I finished high because I was done with all that stupid math that I had to take to get a BS, and I was finally taking classes that were more interesting to me. I really didn't care too much for the first couple of years. I think I had 5 A's and a B my last semester, and that was in spite of working 40 hours a week and partying like crazy. I could never carry on like that these days.

[GreenInNC]

6. the entire range

0.0 - quit going to class
4.0 - started paying for it myself

[RPM]

11. funny how that works... n/t

[HereSince1628]

8. That would be the 4.0 of my final 8 semesters

[RPM]

12. very nice work

:toast: to you!

[HereSince1628]

19. Yeah, but I failed social skills in kindergarten

and THAT has proved to be more important.

[YankeyMCC]

9. Freshman Undergrad

2.3

Last few Trimesters (I went to Northeastern U) 3.6

[Beware the Beast Man]

13. Worst: 1.2. Best: 3.8

[Left Is Write]

14. I don't have much to go on.

I graduated high school with a 3.7

My grades in college, I have blocked out, though I do remember knocking the socks off my freshman discourse instructor. ;)

I later dropped out of college, but went back later and put myself through radio school (it was a vocational/technical school, really, though they did offer regular college courses, some of which I took). I had a 4.0 every semester and graduated with a 4.0.

[caledesi]

15. Worst: 2.0 (divorce effect) Best: 3.5 (thought I was happily married)

and husband was super-supportive as a non-traditional student.

LOL.

[VOX]

16. Worst would be 1.3 (not a typo). Best was 4.0, final 4 semesters...

That ripping 1.3 made me subject to academic dismissal, so a torch was lit under me for the following spring -- I actually showed up and stayed awake! :evilgrin:

Grad school (Art): Lowest was 3.6, the rest were 4.0.

[Wickerman]

17. 1.87

with 5 classes in freshman year.

4.0 a few semesters in gradual school.

[VelmaD]

18. good, bad, then good again

I started out on the Dean's List my freshman year. 4.0 both semesters I think. Then I had a little nervous breakdown. My grades went in the toilet. I was even on academic probation for a while. Once I got things back under control and figured out what I wanted to do with myself my grades went back up. All As with a few Bs my last 2 years of undergrad.

Grad school I made excellent grades...somewhere around a 3.5 gpa I think...may have been a littel higher...it's been a few years.

[WindRavenX]

20. 2.5 Freshman year/ going up

First semester was awful. Calculus, chemistry...ugh.

[BellaLuna]

21. the Worst was my first semester.... 2.1

The best was a couple 4.0s in my junior and senior years.

[LynzM]

22. I don't fit that pattern

First semester: 3.98 Only non-4.0 that semester? "Freshman Year Introduction". Like I needed that?

Best was 4.0. Worst... probably a 3.1? I don't remember. Overall GPA when I left school was a 3.83.

[AgadorSparticus]

23. worst: 2.33 (first semester). best: 3.3 (2nd sem. soph. year)

I did a little worse my jr. and sr. year because I started to work alot (had bills to pay). Work took up much of my time.

[mark414]

24. after one year...

3.77...first semester
2.86...second semester...stupid biology

blah

[Kathleen04]

25. Well, I have 2 semesters under my belt thusfar

So--

Fall: 3.54
Spring: 3.05

Last semester was kinda disappointing, but my GPA will hopefully be boosted by these summer classes I'm taking now. :)

[usedtobesick]

26. two different schools but

1.67 second semester sophomore year
4.0 first semester junior year but 5 years later...

needed a break much?

[Lady President]

28. Trend up

Actually, my grades are fairly similar to your's:

Law School: 2.75 (first semester, 1L)/ 3.67 (second semester, 3L)
Undergrad: 2.6 (second semester, freshman year)/ 3.8 (second semester, senior year)

[bigwillq]

29. Did you just add the trending part?

I was the first post to this thread and don't remember the trending part?

[RPM]

30. it was implied in the text of the first post

i made it more explicit - i had to clarify myself

[BlueIris]

31. Worst: 3.2 (thanks, Prof. W); Best: 4.09

I was a geek, what can I say?

[RPM]

33. 4.09 - howzat?

AP credit?

[BlueIris]

37. I also once got a 4.03.

No, it wasn't through AP credit (although I had a pile of that when I started college). The university at which I did my undergraduate work allowed professors to give students the occasional A+. I was a reeeeeaaaaalllly anal-retentive grade-whore. Also, I took my academic work extremely seriously in college. Long, involved stories, I guess, but there were a couple of terms in which instructors gave me A+s and my average went up over a four-point because of my overachievement in those courses at those times. My college transcripts actually look kind of strange in that respect.

[kick-ass-bob]

32. Undergrad: 1st semester 2.83

Somewhere in my junior year: 3.92

give or take a couple .01 points.

[SCDem]

34. Worst 1.8 (freshman undergrad) Best 4.0 (high school & grad school)

[SarahB]

35. Worst: 2.9, Best: 4.0

[Reverend_Smitty]

36. worst 3.6...best 4.0

the worst was in the Spring of my Soph year and the best was in the fall of my soph year. I'm probably a bad example because my cumulative GPA is 3.86, so I get pretty good grades in general

[Steve Nash is god 13]

38. my worst this year was 2.88 in 6th grade,

best 3.00