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I plan to go to the top of the line college with a full scholarship!

My plans never work...

Maybe because they'll all irrational?

Just a thought.

vecoriwen, on Feb 13 2005, 08:07 PM, said:

I'd say you are. Compared to me, and most of my acquaintances.

vecoriwen, on Feb 14 2005, 12:55 AM, said:

Your high school gives out $10000 a year scholarships to all graduates?
And a $2000 scholarship just for being in marching band?

Our State gives $10,000 to students who graduate with a GPA above...2.7 or 3.0 I forget. One amazing thing about living in Nevada. And being in Marching Band pays $2,000. I also forgot...my school will probably be giving me a scholarship for being a member of the 1st graduating class.

Wow. That'd be awesome for me considering I have a 3.63 cumulative GPA at the moment and I play Trumpet.

vecoriwen, on Feb 13 2005, 08:05 PM, said:

Not quite.

It used to be 2.0; they decided(correctly) that that was ridiculous and raised it to 3.0; due to funding shortages it's being slowly raised; now it's 3.15 for our year, next year's class it'll be 3.2, I think. Not sure exactly of the numbers.

Nice TJ! (You know what I'm talking about)

ICE BABIES!

*cough*

Millennium Scholarship rocks!

Nevada must have quite a financial structure, or a lot of teenagers that are failing high school.

Heck, even my GPA would've qualified for next year's scholarship.

Nevada just has a lot of extra income from casinos and what not... so they put it in a fund and give it to students.

vecoriwen, on Feb 13 2005, 10:55 PM, said:

They do that down here as well, just with lottery money and bigger monetary figures (they pay full tuition, no fees, for eight semesters, with $1,000 towards a ninth).

Just something to think about for all the high schoolers around here. More people are taking nine or more semesters to graduate from college these days than people who graduate in the old standard of four years. Studies have demonstrated, however, that a vast majority of students beginning their sixth year of college were sure that they'd be out in four when entering college and that most freshmen in the country didn't realize it was possible to go 6 years for a so-called "4 year degree."

My story about this occurs at the beginning of last fall semester when a couple of freshmen overheard a few of us chatting about graduation requirements in a Biology course I was taking. They caught our attention and asked us how long we had been there. It turned out that in this group we had two sophomores (myself included), a junior beginning his fourth year, a senior beginning her fifth year set to graduate last December (she did), and a senior in the second semester of her fifth year set to graduate this coming May. The freshmen looked perplexedly at us and one of them queried as to whether all of us were on on the dreaded "five-year plan," to which the junior answered, dead serious, "Of course, isn't everybody?" This horrified the freshmen and proved rather droll to those of us who'd already wrapped our minds around what was actually required of us to graduate and realized, also with terror at first, that there simply wasn't enough time in eight semesters to do everything we had to unless everything worked out spectacularly perfect.

There are certainly people who graduate in four years flat, but they generally have to take full loads of classes during every semester (including summer) during those four years. Most of us decide that we don't want to do that and, while we keep some hope alive for everything working out just right and squeaking by just in time, we generally resign ourselves to another semester or two at college. Right now, I'm looking to graduate in December 2007, four and a half years after first showing up at UNM which'll put me well ahead of the average graduation time down here. During the summer prior to my arrival at the University, I was sure I'd be able to fly through school and be out in three years flat, three and a half at most. <teehee>

-Pufer

Ahhhhh you all suck

I have a 4.3, and I'm 93.12% sure PA isn't going to give me a penny.

A 4.3 is pretty damn good. You should get a scholarship from the college.

Depends, some collages trash grades above 4.0 and re-evaluate GPAs based on their scale. Still, your GPA would be up there (unless you're going from a 5-scale to a 4-scale)

The 3.63 I was refering to earlier was on a 4 scale. I was thinking Trah's was the same.

Mine is on a 4 scale, but inflated with honors, AP courses. A scholarship would be nice, but I've always thought those are super-competitive.

Yeah, because of people like you.

Go for one!

My, how this has gotten off topic...

Ah, who cares!

Yeah, trah, go for it. You'll save a lot of money at your college of choice if you do get a scholarship, and even if you don't get one, you haven't lost anything except a bit of time. I got one for about $1500, and that's about what my whole tuition and books cost.

My GPA is a 3.5 overall... I feel unfit for living Trah...thanks...

I've got a 3.7, and I don't feel jealous of Trah at all.

Ya know, we could always send you some cookies, moon.

Cookies sound good. Although, I am trying to watch my figure..

Ok, fat free cookies, or better yet, fat free yogurt.

Don't forget sugar free..

Moving from GPA to cookies in under two posts! You should be proud!

I find it faintly amusing how much emphasis is placed upon GPAs in the US. The concept is shot through with flaws.

Firstly, even within schools there is a vast discrepancy between the difficulty levels in courses - the difficulty of achieving an "A" in Physics and an "A" is completely different - hell, it's based on entirely different scales. These discrepancies only continue at college. Everyone at Yale knows that a "C" in Shelly Kagan's Ethics class is equivalent to an "A" in Natural Hazards.

And comparing GPAs across institutions - that's even more ridiculous. Every school calculates them differently. Some include extracurriculars, some don't count certain subjects - hell, they don't even all use the same 0-4 scale.

Anyone who measures academic achievement based on "GPA" is guilty of perpetuating one of the worst oversimplifications in educational history.