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I have a question regarding course curves. I read that the maximum average grade for first year courses is a 3.0. I am wondering whether you know what GPA will put a student in the top 50%? I am wondering because I have been offered a scholarship that requires maintenance of a 2.95 GPA. I don’t doubt my ability to achieve this, but I am wondering roughly what rank (in terms of percentage)to which this GPA would correspond.
December 03, 2009

In the last five years, the lowest gpa that would put a student in the top half of the class was a 2.93 and the highest needed was a 3.06. This means that the 2.95 requirement is set toward the low end of the range needed to be in the top half of the class. Rank is done semester by semester except for first year students who are not ranked until the end of the first year.

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