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I wasn't looking for numbers, I was looking for "extremely uncommon" or "not that uncommon" or something of that sort. Or if there's anybody who did what I am talking about, but not for the reason that only the last year matters. It's kind of hard to do your best or want to when you're in a...

When are you taking it?

Yes, but, I didn't need to open a thread to know that. There's not much thinking involved to arrive at the conclusion that straight A's is basically the best as it gets. So far it's still a mystery as to *how* often this happens, as well as my question about how good the GRE would have to be...

I know and agree the forever straight-A student would be the "best" one, but I don't think you can say he "got even better" by only looking at the grades. I'm just saying I think the student who drastically improved deserves more consideration than "that's good, he improved. But who cares when...

So...I guess nobody really knows how often this happens? I thought if it's extremely uncommon, there would be more brownie points involved if it happened.

I just finished my second year (why I keep talking about the first half vs. last half).

Yea, but that obviously isn't the case with grad school admissions (in the US). I'm starting to feel SOL because it sounds like all drastic improvement means to grad school admissions is that you're finally getting to be "more like" the forever straight-A applicants but still worse in the end...

I wouldn't really care, actually. (?)

I actually agree that AAAA is objectively better than BBAA, but nobody who matters looks past that and actually considers how hard that must've been to do. Nobody gets a BBAA for the sole purpose of "showing improvement." It's a lot easier to go from an A for two years then an A for the next two...

It's starting to sound like from this thread that sudden improvement between the two halves of college don't even mean much when there are people with straight A's. When admissions committees sit down and look at a transcript, I'm starting to doubt they even take the time to consider the...

Interesting. Unfortunately, it is not that way in the US. :-|

So...it is better than someone who's always gotten 3.5, but worse than someone who has always gotten straight A's? By how much? You've proven that in the end, you understood and were capable of doing well in undergrad (especially if you have a good GRE on top of that). How good would your GRE...

I didn't mean just any mix of A's and B's (and C's), the particular trend I'm talking about is like I said above, around a 3.0 for the first two years, then straight A's for the rest of the time. I thought this obviously says something about how the student struggled before and made a 180 degree...

How often is it that a student does "badly" (let's say around 3.0) for the first two years of college, then gets straight A's for the last two years? Also, is this looked upon more favorably by graduate schools than a student who always got straight A's, because it means that the student...

I'm using Griffiths for another class. I want something like Knight except modern physics only, not "with modern physics".