bills10 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 I believe this week and weekend brought most students back to campus. I'm trying to survive my brothers move in to UD. They welcome their largest class ever with the highest scores. I can't find any info about the slu class? I haven't been able to find anything so far. I wish I were moving into reinert again right now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I saw that there are 1,600 students in this year's freshman class, but haven't seen any other stats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taj79 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 The guy doing the alumni welcome in Philly today (Jim Curtain) said this year's fre3shman class at SLU was 1600 students with a cumulative grade point average of 3.87 and ACT average scores of 28. Said they achieved their recruiting goals two or three years ahead of schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianstl Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 The guy doing the alumni welcome in Philly today (Jim Curtain) said this year's fre3shman class at SLU was 1600 students with a cumulative grade point average of 3.87 and ACT average scores of 28. Said they achieved their recruiting goals two or three years ahead of schedule. It has been a long time since I took the ACT, but a 28 seems low for a group of students that had a 3.87 gpa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills10 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 It has been a long time since I took the ACT, but a 28 seems low for a group of students that had a 3.87 gpa. I think this is a weighted GPA, including people who have higher than a 4.0. Still pretty impressive numbers. My brothers class at VD (no longer UD) is actually over 2200, yet the university is much smaller, which I find interesting. Thanks for the responses. I still would choose slu any day of the week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old guy Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 SLU has a much larger graduate program than UD that is why SLU's freshman class is smaller than theirs but the school is larger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bills10 Posted August 25, 2014 Author Share Posted August 25, 2014 SLU has a much larger graduate program than UD that is why SLU's freshman class is smaller than theirs but the school is larger. Yes I put that together. I just didn't realize how large the differences were until now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorB Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Impressive?? HA! good one ... GPA's have become a joke, not only high school but college. Half the kids at SLU now graduate with honors and magna laude, rendering it meaningless. I just had a kid yesterday email me (before I even met her, and before the class has met) telling me her main goal in my class is to "get an A." the 3.87 GPA of a high school graduate has now become meaningless. I would say it is roughly equivalent to a 2.5 when I went to high school. if you are over 40 you probably remember many classes in high school (not to mention college) where you would beg to get a C. What we have now are entire classes of students who have NEVER gotten a C or below in ANY class -- and many who have never even gotten a B! I post WW I Germany the frank was so overinflated that people used wheelbarrows to transport loads of bills around. Same with those 3.87 GPAs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slu72 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 And we give every kid a trophy for participating in a sport. What the hell ever happened to "earn it".? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonwich Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 if you are over 40 you probably remember many classes in high school (not to mention college) where you would beg to get a C. I had to beg for a C at SLU in my Calculus of Imaginary Numbers class, but I think that's because, even then, there was no "i" in team. (The first part of the preceding sentence is actually true.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kwyjibo Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 And we give every kid a trophy for participating in a sport. What the hell ever happened to "earn it".? No offense but you do know this is a myth and to the extent that it was ever true (20 years ago?) it was the PARENTS driving the practice (because THEY are the people who needed the trophy). Every trophy shop I know is out of business and my 6 year old has never got any trophy. She does get a stamp or sticker for participating and she gets pretty pumped for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Impressive?? HA! good one ... GPA's have become a joke, not only high school but college. Half the kids at SLU now graduate with honors and magna ###### laude, rendering it meaningless. I just had a kid yesterday email me (before I even met her, and before the class has met) telling me her main goal in my class is to "get an A." the 3.87 GPA of a high school graduate has now become meaningless. I would say it is roughly equivalent to a 2.5 when I went to high school. if you are over 40 you probably remember many classes in high school (not to mention college) where you would beg to get a C. What we have now are entire classes of students who have NEVER gotten a C or below in ANY class -- and many who have never even gotten a B! I post WW I Germany the frank was so overinflated that people used wheelbarrows to transport loads of bills around. Same with those 3.87 GPAs. I don't know, one of the few redeeming moments of my first year of law school was watching people's heads explode after seeing not just the first Cs of their entire lives, but a GPA with a "2" in front of it. Wouldn't have been nearly as fun if every smart kid in the country wasn't conditioned to expect nothing but A's for two decades beforehand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmith19 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 No offense but you do know this is a myth and to the extent that it was ever true (20 years ago?) it was the PARENTS driving the practice (because THEY are the people who needed the trophy). Every trophy shop I know is out of business and my 6 year old has never got any trophy. She does get a stamp or sticker for participating and she gets pretty pumped for that. Totally agreed. I'm not sure it was ever true. I played Little League 20-25 years ago, and the only trophies given out were for the league champions and the All-Star teams. Some teams let the kids vote for their All-Star representatives and others were chosen by the coaches. I remember lots of hurt feelings over the All-Star team, mainly because of the trophies, and mainly on the part of the parents rather than the kids themselves. I know in the popular imagination kids of the '80s and '90s were the ones who were spoiled by never being allowed to fail, but in my experience the hyper-competitiveness of the parents and coaches was a way bigger obstacle to having fun than the stereotype of every participant getting a blue ribbon. I'll never forget coaches "scouting" five-year-old tee-ball players in preparation for the "draft" before the first season of real baseball. Another dad threw a fit because his third grade son was dropped out of the cleanup spot in the batting order. Lack of competitiveness from the supervising adults was the opposite of the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufan13 Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 I got a trophy every year in baseball and soccer from the age of 4 to about 10 or 11. For me the issue is more that a lot of leagues don't keep score or keep track of wins and losses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Wow, Wash U has more than 1,700 first-year students: http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/morning_call/2014/08/mizzou-wash-u-count-record-fall-enrollment.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Box and Won Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I believe this week and weekend brought most students back to campus. I'm trying to survive my brothers move in to UD. They welcome their largest class ever with the highest scores. I can't find any info about the slu class? I haven't been able to find anything so far. I wish I were moving into reinert again right now! Here you go: It's official. Saint Louis University's official fall 2014 census has just been completed, and this year's freshman class is the most academically accomplished in SLU's nearly 200-year history. The new students' mean high school GPA of 3.85 and average ACT score of 27.6 are both University records. What's more, nearly one-third of them scored a 30 or better on the ACT, placing them in the top four percent in the entire nation. In addition to their impressive academic credentials, the class of 2018 also is notable for being the third largest in history, with 1,605 students hailing from 44 U.S. states and more than 20 foreign countries. Nearly 75 percent of freshmen are from outside the St. Louis metropolitan area. http://www.slu.edu/x97447.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Every sport my kids are in gets a trophy at the end of the season. I think Sign Guy is planning on handing out trophies to each poster at the end of the year too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billikenfan05 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I learned very quickly that if you take a foreign Language that nobody takes the professors will try as hard as possible to keep you passing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I learned very quickly that if you take a foreign Language that nobody takes the professors will try as hard as possible to keep you passing In 1998 I got an F in German because I rarely showed up. The professor didn't tell me he was flunking me due to absence and I studied for the final. I was probably still am the best German speaker in that class. I'm not sure why I took German as an elective should've taken something easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Pelican Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Every sport my kids are in gets a trophy at the end of the season. I think Sign Guy is planning on handing out trophies to each poster at the end of the year too. I'm gonna start building a trophy case tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deutschkind Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 In 1998 I got an F in German because I rarely showed up. The professor didn't tell me he was flunking me due to absence and I studied for the final. I was probably still am the best German speaker in that class. I'm not sure why I took German as an elective should've taken something easy. Who did you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WUH Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 I post WW I Germany the frank was so overinflated that people used wheelbarrows to transport loads of bills around. Same with those 3.87 GPAs. I am not sure what a frank is, but if you are referring to the French franc, then you are referring to the French reserve currency at the time. The German currency at the time was known as the Deutsche Mark. This may explain why you had to beg for passing grades. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheA_Bomb Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Who did you have? Herr Jost. I only needed 1 more class to get my Certificate of Proficiency Also come on WUH give the Doc a Break Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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