What were your grades like in high school?

Any specifics? A- about I would say.

I have a 4.3

I was kind of a giant fail truck.

I actually got kicked out for missing 15 days straight. I was sick at the time but it was a long time coming. It was just a convenient reason on their part.

Sadly, I am perfectly capable of being the 4.0+ kinda gal. I screwed that shit up. Ended up getting a GED and now I’m in Community College for a year or so before I hopefully transfer out to William & Mary.

My GPA was around a 3.5. But I dropped out at the beginning of my senior year. I was 21 by the time I finally went back and graduated.

Sweet, that’s two of us that finished later. :)

I’m in the Quebec education system which is really weird. It’s not about pass or fail, its about how you do relatively to your class in high school, and then you move on to CEGEP where they measure how you do relative to your class, keeping in mind how you did relatively to your class in high school, and then in university they look at those marks for acceptances, but I think they stop the confusion there. It is really messed up, but it works.

I was good in chem, bio, english, history, social sciences, but I sucked at math, physics and french. I’m so psyched that I’m gonna co-major in history and anthropology next year

Yay history and Anthropology! I’m going for Anthropology too!

I was a B+ student in high school. I was a B+ student in college too. They let me into grad school anyway. I think in general grades are a terrible measurement of knowledge as well as a lousy predictor of future success.

I was a A- in high school, but I had a lot to deal with. I had a B- average in college as I didn’t really learn how to study efficiently (combined with me seriously slacking my first 3 semesters).

I was a B+ student that had the potential to be an A+ student if I put forth the slightest more effort. Also @laxrrockr18 do you have weighted grades?

Cecil, honey, what’s with the grades question? Dear daughter of mine, do your best and you will earn straight A’s! You need those grades, your mad basketball skills, and your stupid quick wheels to earn a scholarship…get it done.

Most of my grades were A’s or B’s, but when it came to math it was always D or minus haha

I was horrible in High School-completely baked, tripping constantly, dropped out, got GED, got straight, Years later graduated Magna Cum Laude-4.83 GPA from City University of NY Queens College in NYC with a BA in Art Education.

Typical type A overachiever, first chair flute player, head twirler, drum major, straight A student. What happened to me…? Must be the weed.

I like to think of my report cards as “colorful.”

I always got A’s in music but D’s and F’s in everything else. I finally got asked to leave. I would strongly not recommend going that route!

Straight A student. I never thought of getting any other grade as an option. I don’t mean to sound snobbish but high school was really easy for me. Most of it was because I had already learned that stuff before starting high school. The big factor is I moved countries in between my schooling moved from India to USA and the education level in the previous country was at a much higher level thus making classes here a joke.

I second what @nikipedia said about grades not being the perfect indicator of future success. That said, they definitely play a role, not in showing how intelligent you are, but in showing how dedicated you are to your academics.

My main tip would be to really get AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE from class lecture. Do not leave lecture if you are confused about something. Ask questions after class if you are too shy to do so in class. I paid attention in class and then looked over stuff the night before the exam, and that was good enough.

Hrm… non-existent at the moment. ;)

@PnL I agree with the notion that high school grades have nothing to do with future success. Some of my dear friends who just barely made it through high school have graduated with masters degrees and are holding successful careers while I am still trying to finish college. Of course it has more to do with major interruptions happening in my life than a lack of dedication or desire on my part. I think this coincides with the whole theory of the “weird kids” or “nerdy kids” becoming more successful and even famous, and the “popular kids” usually wind up living forever in the town where they grew up and hanging out with the same people they hung out with in high school. For instance, most of the “popular kids” from my high school either still live in that town or upon graduating from college, moved back and all hang out together all the time. Meanwhile, one of the nerdiest girls I knew is now a beauty editor for Essence magazine and is living the most glam life of anyone I know. I think it’s the “big fish in a little pond” syndrome. It’s like they’re afraid of being a nobody.

I always figured out exactly how much I needed to do, and that’s what I did to get by. I hated high school. There was no challenge, I wasn’t interested in most of the subjects and everybody was painfully self-centered, unaware, immature and easily manipulated. Once I got to college and was able to choose exactly what I was doing, I had a 4.0 until I developed agoraphobia and had to leave to get control of that. Still haven’t gone back yet, but I want to so much. I’m not at the right place mentally yet, though. Someday soon…

I’m still in high school. But i have a 3.96 right now.

But it’s at an Early College High School right now so that’s subject to change.

I didn’t even know we had gpa’s in high school..that shows how much I was paying attention.
I started out great, all level one’s, with A’s. Then I ended up failing most all my classes in 9th grade, and had to repeat them in summer school. Got kicked out of summer school (you couldn’t even be a minute late) Finally caught up by 11th grade, and had all A’s, because they put me in level two classes and it was easy for me. Math is the only subject I struggled with.
I ended up dropping out, at 16, in the middle of my junior year of high school. I got my GED less than three months later, and started community college the same year that should have been my senior year of high school.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

except for my precal/trig class

now i can’t even go to fucking class. i used up all my motivation too early!

@asmonet yay for anthro!

I had really good grades in high school. During the 4 years in school, I had all A’s…until Latin. All A’s, one B. damn Latin!

I was a B/C level student in high school. Once I got into college (due to good SAT scores, not GPA) and started taking classes I cared about, I became an A student. I wish I had paid more attention to the stuff I thought was unimportant crap…

Straight A kid until 8th grade. Then I was a straight A kid, who flunked many a class due to absences. I had massive anxiety, and couldn’t seem to get through a day without a panic attack. I was always skipping classes, or not going to school at all. Turns out, you have to be there to pass. :(

Eh, I did okay. You know, summa cum laude and stuff.