What percentage of full-time students maintain a 4.0 gpa in college?

Question

How common is it?

Answer 1

Two of my friends graduated college with a perfect GPA. I'm in my last semester and my GPA is a 3.89, so with any luck I'll graduate with honors. I don't think it is very common, but it's not impossible either if people are willing to put the work into it.

Answer 2

I am going to say only a handful by graduation time. Once a person gets an A-, lets say, then there is no way to make it up like in high school where they give you an extra grade point for AP or honors classes. A person who wants a 4.0 not only has to study hard but must also choose his or her classes wisely because some professors are notorious for hardly giving out As. I've had classes where the professor gave one or two As in a class of 60 or more students.

Answer 3

Many have a 4.0 perfect semester (or several) but the percentage who graduate with a 4.0 through 4 years of full-time classes has got to be less than 0.5%.

Answer 4

Almost none, it is sooooooo hard to go through 60 something classes and never get anything less than an A. Even if you get an A-, that's tough. A 3.7 or 3.8 is extremely good and even a 3.3 is considered pretty good. I would say a 4.0 student would have no job, no life, and would be very dedicated to their studies for four years and even then may come across a class or two they just didn't get.

Answer 5

First of all, if you go to a crap college like U of Delaware, then basically not getting drunk can get you a 4.0. If you go to an Ivy League college, it is much harder.

The second factor is your major. With a crap major like sociology, you can get a 4.0 if you know how to write your name correctly. If you take math, hard sciences, engineering, it is harder. In that case you will actually have to learn something tangible.

So you will most likely get a 4.0 at a Crap College with a Crap Major.

But if you go to a Crap College and take a Crap Major, you will be working at Mickey Dees.

Unless you go to law school, where they don't care if your college or Major was Crap and where it pays to get a 4.0 by taking the easy route (the path of least resistance).

As far as percentage, again, it depends on the school/major. In any one given school, since a 4.0 is an A average, and professors have to standardize grades, an A is in the top 90% of scores, some 1.5 standard deviations above the average. So only 1 in 10 students will have a 4.0 or nearly 4.0 GPA.

GPA has NOTHING to do with intelligence. I have seen morons pull 4.0 averages at crap schools with crap majors. Just look at some people who are touting their 4.0s.

Answer 6

I would say that's very rare. Who needs a 4.0 anyway? There's no need to be perfect, college is tough enough. Just try your hardest, that's all that counts.