The GAT Thread

Leviathen · Post by **Leviathen** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:06 pm

you aren't in college

Santos · Post by **Santos** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:49 pm

3.6 isnt the best, Harvard's average score this year was a 5.09, so get crackin Waucod!

Apium · Post by **Apium** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:41 pm

lmao waucod a 3.5 gpa sucks. I have a 5.5 gpa.

Apium · Post by **Apium** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:42 pm

Whos playing the mcdonalds monopoly game? I'm so close to winning 25,000 online. And I can win online prizes even though I work at mcdonalds lol. I just can't win the big in store prizes. I'm going for that 300 dollar best buy gift card, but I'll settle with 25000

Kurke_Aumea · Post by **Kurke_Aumea** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:54 pm

Apium wrote:lmao waucod a 3.5 gpa sucks. I have a 5.5 gpa.

Not everyone uses the same GPA scale. Both my high school and college use a 4.0 GPA scale. In which case, a 3.5 is pretty good. Somehow, I am still pulling a 3.8 in college and if I can maintain it, I will graduate with top honors in a year (which would be better than what I did in high school).

And Lev is right, none of ya are in college...

Apium · Post by **Apium** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:21 pm

Kurke_Aumea wrote:
Apium wrote:lmao waucod a 3.5 gpa sucks. I have a 5.5 gpa.

Not everyone uses the same GPA scale. Both my high school and college use a 4.0 GPA scale. In which case, a 3.5 is pretty good. Somehow, I am still pulling a 3.8 in college and if I can maintain it, I will graduate with top honors in a year (which would be better than what I did in high school).

And Lev is right, none of ya are in college...

it is a 4.0 scale lol. Everyone uses a 4.0 scale, thats what colleges accept. I'm taking two AP classes and two honors classes. My weighted average is 5.5. My unweighted average is 4.0 out of 4.0.

I've never had a B in high school, or anyother school for that matter. My high school transcript is really pretty with all those As straight down.

Kurke_Aumea · Post by **Kurke_Aumea** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:42 pm

Apium wrote:
Kurke_Aumea wrote:
Apium wrote:lmao waucod a 3.5 gpa sucks. I have a 5.5 gpa.

Not everyone uses the same GPA scale. Both my high school and college use a 4.0 GPA scale. In which case, a 3.5 is pretty good. Somehow, I am still pulling a 3.8 in college and if I can maintain it, I will graduate with top honors in a year (which would be better than what I did in high school).

And Lev is right, none of ya are in college...

it is a 4.0 scale lol. Everyone uses a 4.0 scale, thats what colleges accept. I'm taking two AP classes and two honors classes. My weighted average is 5.5. My unweighted average is 4.0 out of 4.0.

I've never had a B in high school, or anyother school for that matter. My high school transcript is really pretty with all those As straight down.

It's not all 4.0, I've seen some schools use some pretty off the wall scales...

Finnus Malorin · Post by **Finnus Malorin** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:49 pm

I never knew that a GPA went above 4.0..... I guess thats what internet classes do to ya

Leviathen · Post by **Leviathen** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:55 pm

I think your entire GPA system is screwy, why do you need another number when you can just have whatever percent you got in the course? ..course aren't your 80s Bs and 90s As? something weird like that.

Kurke_Aumea · Post by **Kurke_Aumea** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:09 pm

Leviathen wrote:I think your entire GPA system is screwy, why do you need another number when you can just have whatever percent you got in the course? ..course aren't your 80s Bs and 90s As? something weird like that.

/agree

I never quite understood the need for the GPA system unless it's for people who can't count to 4...

Why can't we just express everything in percentages? And for overall, we can average them together? Or is that too difficult for people to do?

And in my college, each letter grade is worth 10 percentage points.

> 90 = A
80 - 89 = B
70 - 79 = C
60 - 69 = D
< 60 = F

In high school, the standards were a bit stricter. Each letter grade in high school was worth about 7 or 8 percentage points.

Finnus Malorin · Post by **Finnus Malorin** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:20 pm

I live in Central Florida.... people aint' to bright around here... only the gifted classes know about percentages ( I know I can't spel to good)

Leviathen · Post by **Leviathen** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:00 am

we just measure everything by percentages. Though our system goes

A - 80-100
B - 70-79
C - 60-69
D - 50-59
R - <50

Though after much discussion with an American friend of mine we determined it was much harder to get a 90 here than there in Flordia.

Waucod Meesman · Post by **Waucod Meesman** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:19 am

yeah florida is stupid I live up near Jacksonville and all the people that aren't in gifted classes (except a few) are complete idiots, and guys to give you an idea I'm one of the smart ones down here...

Finnus Malorin · Post by **Finnus Malorin** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:35 pm

Thats why I'm glad I only have to put up with it for another year or so,
I just hope the collages down here are better.

Santos · Post by **Santos** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:01 pm

Leviathen wrote:we just measure everything by percentages. Though our system goes

A - 80-100
B - 70-79
C - 60-69
D - 50-59
R - <50

Though after much discussion with an American friend of mine we determined it was much harder to get a 90 here than there in Flordia.

If I went by that scale Id have straight As! Right now, I have 3 As and 2 Bs, and 100s in all my electives.