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Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - Orange County Owl - 12-19-2014 05:48 PM
https://twitter.com/CoachHughFreeze/status/545682404472795136
"Our Football Team earned the highest team GPA (2.57) in recorded history of the football program.” Thanks @UMTrueRebel for a great year."
This has created quite a stir on Twitter today - with people all over Freeze (and the SEC in general) for bragging about a 2.57 GPA (particularly as an all-time program high).
At least, I guess, he is talking academics during bowl season.
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - dragon2owl - 12-19-2014 06:02 PM
Last year, Tulane had the highest in CUSA with a 2.809...anyone know what Rice had?
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/c-usa/genrel/auto_pdf/2014-15/misc_non_event/2014institutionalexcellence.pdf
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - Orange County Owl - 12-19-2014 06:17 PM
(12-19-2014 06:02 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: Last year, Tulane had the highest in CUSA with a 2.809...anyone know what Rice had?
http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/c-usa/genrel/auto_pdf/2014-15/misc_non_event/2014institutionalexcellence.pdf
Found this from 2012 showing a 2.93 for football.
http://www.riceowls.com/genrel/020812aaa.html
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - davidw - 12-19-2014 07:32 PM
I'm curious what the overall GPA is for the University....anybody know ?
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - Philoso-Owl - 12-19-2014 11:18 PM
(12-19-2014 07:32 PM)davidw Wrote: I'm curious what the overall GPA is for the University....anybody know ?
It's difficult to find a published number. But I know that it is quite high. Rice students are very good students, but grade inflation is also a serious reality. Well more than half of all course grades given at the university are in the A range.
Here's some published info on the threshold for being in the top 30%:
Spring 2014: 3.878
AY 2013-14
Natural Science: 3.85
Music: 3.85
Humanities: 3.84
Engineering: 3.81
Social Science: 3.80
Architecture: 3.74
Average across schools: 3.817
And the AY 2013-24 Top 10% threshold: 3.992
https://registrar.rice.edu/students/aca_honors/
I think my public research university valedictorian had a 3.98.
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - owl95 - 12-20-2014 12:00 AM
(12-19-2014 11:18 PM)Philoso-Owl Wrote:(12-19-2014 07:32 PM)davidw Wrote: I'm curious what the overall GPA is for the University....anybody know ?
It's difficult to find a published number. But I know that it is quite high. Rice students are very good students, but grade inflation is also a serious reality. Well more than half of all course grades given at the university are in the A range.
Here's some published info on the threshold for being in the top 30%:
Spring 2014: 3.878
AY 2013-14
Natural Science: 3.85
Music: 3.85
Humanities: 3.84
Engineering: 3.81
Social Science: 3.80
Architecture: 3.74
Average across schools: 3.817
And the AY 2013-24 Top 10% threshold: 3.992
https://registrar.rice.edu/students/aca_honors/
I think my public research university valedictorian had a 3.98.
It used to not be that way. When I was at Rice in the 90's the average GPA was down around 3 and I made the President's Honor Roll with a 3.67 one semester.
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - texd - 12-20-2014 08:50 AM
(12-19-2014 11:18 PM)Philoso-Owl Wrote: I think my public research university valedictorian had a 3.98.
I assume y'all didn't have A+
RE: Semi OT - A tweet from the Ole Miss head coach - Philoso-Owl - 12-20-2014 11:48 AM
(12-19-2014 07:32 PM)davidw Wrote: I'm curious what the overall GPA is for the University....anybody know ?
(12-20-2014 08:50 AM)texd Wrote:(12-19-2014 11:18 PM)Philoso-Owl Wrote: I think my public research university valedictorian had a 3.98.
I assume y'all didn't have A+
Professors could give A+, but I don't think they counted as 4.3 for the purposes of GPA. In 4 years on the quarters system, I got one A+. The final exam was 20 multiple choice questions and took me seven minutes. The professor was the research star of her department and a MacArthur 'genius grant' winner.