Anyone who graduated from West Point: What % of graduating students graduate with GPA's above 3.5? Is it fairly common? I know the cadet score is different, but I am asking only about academic performance -- your best guess.
anything over a 3.0 is great. Very hard as there is not grade inflation.
Anyone who graduated from West Point: What % of graduating students graduate with GPA's above 3.5? Is it fairly common? I know the cadet score is different, but I am asking only about academic performance -- your best guess.
It's been a while, but in my day a 3.5 got you in the top ~10% of the graduating class.
(GPA does include "non-academic" classes like physical education and military science)
That sounds about right. My son graduates in May, at the end of fall semester he had 3.31 cumulative GPA and that put him in the top 15% of the class.
So watching the AF Army football game they just put up a stat that a guy currently had something like a 4.11 GPA at USMA. I know at USAFA we couldn't get over a 4.0 and very few people earned a 4.0 for a single semester.
What's the deal? Is it the media getting things wrong and posting his high school GPA or what.
Probably should have read 3.11
Just gonna throw this out there: that no-touchdown review was bullsh**t. Anyone with eyes including the announcers could see it.
You're right, but the "refs" evened it up by taking one away from AF - don't whine!
An A+ in a class will cause it to be weighted 4.33 in the average. More info in part I of West Point's Academic Program document online.
Thanks for the reply with reference. The kid must be a stud playing on the football team and holding a GPA like that.
Assuming he takes 7 classes a semester he would need to get at least 2 A+ and the rest A's every semester since entering USMA.
I do have to say that nonsense about getting over a 4.0 in college is a joke and in my mind this a sneaky way for West Point to try and elevate their candidates for national scholarships (Rhodes, Marshall, Fullbright...) by artificially inflating GPA's.
I'm sure those dumb folks on the Rhodes committee could never see through weighted grades. Good call.
Calling a legitimate penalty for holding does NOT equal calling a clear touchdown a non-touchdown.
Did I say the committee members were "dumb folks?" What is your "call" on why it's done?
I don't consider myself dumb and I was impressed w/ the 4.11 and honestly if you were to give me a transcript of a USMA cadet with a 4.11 or a USAFA/USNA cadet/mid with a 3.98 I would probably select the USMA cadet all else equal because of the A+. The USAFA and USNA students probably were the top person in some of their classes but I wouldn't have proof of that fact.
To be fair I probably should have said giving a 4.33 for an A+ is a way for any school to try and elevate their graduates when applying to most post graduate programs by artificially inflating their GPAs. I just think it's sneaky.
You implied as much by saying it's a way to get their candidates selected for scholarships...the implication being that the Rhodes folks and others would be hoodwinked by the high GPA and not take note of the system behind it. A system that is open knowledge and made clear by USMA.
I don't know why it's done. I wasn't in the business of earning A+'s. I'm certain the Dean could tell you why, at length. I cannot.
If the elevated GPA trick works on those scholarship committees, perhaps USAFA should try it. It might help their numbers.
I believe there is actually grade deflation there. There are several top notch LACs that have grade deflation as well.