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Zack K
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I'm currently almost done my first semester at University here in Canada. I want to go to a good graduate school in the US to study astrophysics in the future. Here in my University, and a lot of Universities in Canada have a 4.33 GPA scale. My GPA here is around a 3.3, that's roughly a B+ and a 79% average. I'm not proud of that mark and I know and will do better next term (I didn't find getting that mark to be a challenge at all). But this didn't prepare me to what I recently found out.
So I was just curious to see what the US GPA scale was and so I searched it up and it sunk my heart. Comparing my percentage to ones in the US I have a 2.3 GPA! I am completely confused and wonder how its even possible to get above a 3.5 GPA without studying all day, especially for physics. To get a 3.5 GPA that means that I have to get mostly 87% to 100% grades. From my experience getting above 90% is not exactly a walk in the park and small mistakes on tests is the difference between a 90% and an 80%. So did this semester basically screw up my future? I wish I had known this before my school started and now I feel like all hope is lost.
So I was just curious to see what the US GPA scale was and so I searched it up and it sunk my heart. Comparing my percentage to ones in the US I have a 2.3 GPA! I am completely confused and wonder how its even possible to get above a 3.5 GPA without studying all day, especially for physics. To get a 3.5 GPA that means that I have to get mostly 87% to 100% grades. From my experience getting above 90% is not exactly a walk in the park and small mistakes on tests is the difference between a 90% and an 80%. So did this semester basically screw up my future? I wish I had known this before my school started and now I feel like all hope is lost.
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