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Another Record-Setting Class Enters USF

This fall’s overall student profile also reflects an increase in total campus enrollment, including a big jump in international students.

 

By Kevin Burke

Special to USF News

 

TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 5, 2013) — A 4.0 grade point average and 1200 SAT score are impressive for any new high school graduate, but at USF they are the norm for the newly arrived Class of 2017.

 

Data released following the first full week of the new academic year indicate that this fall’s incoming freshman class at USF is the best qualified, scholastically, in the university’s history, boasting a highest-ever average GPA of 4.0 (up from 3.94 last year) and a mean SAT score of 1200. It is the third straight first-year class to enter the university with an average SAT of 1200 or above.

 

Read more:  http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=5660&z=210

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I went to USF 10 years ago on a full ride and then some, and am confident that if I were graduating from high school today I would not even be close to getting that type of deal.  The quality of stude

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Academic Scholars Award via Florida Lottery? 100% tuition plus 300 per semester for books? I love the Florida Lottery for that! Do they still do that? Back when I graduated we had to have a 3.5 unweig

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Do not let these stats fool you. I used to work with undergraduate admissions at USF and I can inform you that admissions recalculates every single GPA that applies. The absolute highest GPA that coul

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What's the ACT equivalent of 1200?

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4.0 GPA average? GPA inflation in high school has gotten totally out of control. 

 

Also, I would rather see the median GPA and SAT score than the average. 

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Huh.

 

Not sure how the numbers have changed over the years, but in 1982 that represented the 96th percentile.

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It looks like it the 85th percentile now

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Awesome

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4.0 GPA average? GPA inflation in high school has gotten totally out of control. 

 

Also, I would rather see the median GPA and SAT score than the average. 

 

BINGO!

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4.0 GPA average? GPA inflation in high school has gotten totally out of control. 

 

Also, I would rather see the median GPA and SAT score than the average. 

 

BINGO!

 

 

Naaa... I don't think so :lol:

 

Hillsborough senior earns 9.3079 GPA

http://tbo.com/news/hillsborough-senior-earns--gpa-shattering-record-409927

 

 

 

These GPA's are basically crap/inflated.  When I was in high school, there were Honors and AP classes.  My AP classes (much less honor classes) did not add to my GPA... it just gave me college credit while in high school.  Now, honors classes gives you a boost to your GPA, while AP gives you an even higher one. IB, which didn't exist while I was in HS, gives you almost double credit!

 

I think all of this is BS. 

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