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Progress01 wrote:Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong section.

For everyone who's already done 1L or maybe even graduated...How hard is it to keep a 3.0 in LS? I assume very difficult, but I want opinions.
Got an acceptance this week from a school I didn't think I would get in. Also got offered 75% scholarship per year. The stipulation? I have to stay in the top 1/3 of my class. While scrutinizing my financial packet, I see specifically, I MUST have a minimum of a 2.3 GPA at the end of the fall 1L semester to get the rest of it for the spring semester.

Now I'm sitting here wondering...How DIFFICULT is it to keep a 2.3? This school grades on a C+/B- curve. I don't understand these curves yet. Explain that type of curve to me? This is one of the schools notorious for students losing their scholarships.

BigZuck wrote:What school is this?

Regulus wrote:I had never know about this before, but according to this, median at Akron was 2.78 (for the class of 2012).

Regulus wrote:

Tiago Splitter wrote:

Regulus wrote:I had never know about this before, but according to this, median at Akron was 2.78 (for the class of 2012).

Doesn't make a difference for OP as his requires top third, but that median could get fluffed up during 2L and 3L.

The link also shows the GPA for the top 3rd (3.05), but as you said, we only know the final GPA of people when they graduate and not during the 1L year, which isn't very useful.

For some reason I'd ever made the connection before, but the USNWR is really what caused schools to offer conditional scholarships because financial aid accounts for 1.5% of a school's overall score, and a school can offer $1 million in financial aid at the very beginning, but even if they take away 50% of that after 1L year, the USNWR still counts them as having "offered" $1 million. This is the same exact thing that schools are doing with school-funded positions - offering students something just long enough to get it counted in their USNWR score and then taking it away as soon as they no longer have a use for the students. It kind of makes you wonder if the schools have a deal with the people at USNWR to prevent them from changing the methodology, because you'd normally figure that if your rankings system had a clear flaw, you'd want to take care of it as quickly as possible.

Even MMORPG mods are stricter than USNWR's staff because if you find a glitch and take advantage of it in an MMORPG, not only will they patch it and fix the bug, but they will often retroactively punish (or even temporarily ban) people who took advantage of the system.