backstreet
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When being selected for an EA is there a scale that makes a private university GPA equal to the GPA from a public university
When being selected for an EA is there a scale that makes a private university GPA equal to the GPA from a public university
Does caliber of school matter at all when it comes to handing out UPT/ENJJPT slots? i.e. would a cadet at a Harvard or a Princeton with a 3.0 GPA be selected over a cadet at State U with a 3.5 (everything else being equal)?
Finally the only true difference I have ever seen published for scoring is tech vs non-tech. I believe it is a bump of 0.3 for the cgpa for techs. compared to non-techs.
Of course that would be assuming that a degree in say International Studies is easier at State U then it is at Harvard. Does Harvard use textbooks that are somehow harder to read then the ones used at State U.
flipfloppity said:In terms of GPA, there is little doubt that Harvard is more difficult than State U. The average GPA at an Ivy league school is about the same as at a State U. However, the academic caliber of the students at Harvard is generally much higher. Thus it is harder to get a 3.5 at Harvard than a 3.5 at State U. QED. Seems to me a rated board ought to consider that distinction, especially when someone with a 2.9 at one school might easily have a 4.0 somewhere else.
In terms of GPA, there is little doubt that Harvard is more difficult than State U.
However, the academic caliber of the students at Harvard is generally much higher. Thus it is harder to get a 3.5 at Harvard than a 3.5 at State U
Seems to me a rated board ought to consider that distinction, especially when someone with a 2.9 at one school might easily have a 4.0 somewhere else.
There is absolutly no way for a board to know whether a student would have a better GPA at a different school, and far too many schools to compare. The idea that a student getting a 2.9 at one school would get a 4.0 at another is unlikely and demeaning to the other schools, and almost impossible to calculate. There are plenty of students that transfer out of Ivy's due to low grades, enroll in a State U only to find that the problem was not the school but the student themselves.
Good Lord, where do you people get this stuff?In terms of GPA, there is little doubt that Harvard is more difficult than State U. The average GPA at an Ivy league school is about the same as at a State U.
A more relevant quesiton for ROTC evaluation is the difference in average GPA within Engineering, Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts/Humanities. With arts/humanities as the baseline, ave GPA across the US breaks out approx. like this: Social Sciences: -.15 Sciences -2.5 Engineering -3.5.
So, the more relevant issue within ROTC is whether there should be a normalization of GPA between the four categories, which happen to nicely map the AROTC's ADM1, ADM2, ADM3, and ADM4. However, the attempted current normalization is to add 0.1 for Engineering Majors, 0.5 for math/science majors, nothing for Social Science.
I am with vareporter.
VMI is private in VA, but look at their stats compared to UVA and VT.
Now let's look at VMI, which is private in VA has 1155 and 45% acceptance rate.