Many applicants have grade point averages of 4.0.
Generally, students in the division's programs have grade point averages and retention rates as good as or better than the average in their respective classes.
Most of those students had grade-point averages below 65 and, though they were warned by city officials that their schools were failing, a vast majority chose to stay until the schools' doors shut for good.
In a memo sent to faculty and students yesterday, she said that 65percentt of the graduating seniors in the class of 2002 had grade-point averages of B-plus or better, and fewer than 5percentt fell below B-minus.
In the United States, concludes a recent study of more than 5,200 second-generation children in Miami and San Diego, the children of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian immigrants had grade-point scores averaging at least twice those of Mexican and Cuban children even after adjusting for family and school characteristics.
There was once a Boston newspaper article about several of his players having grade-point averages under 2.0, raising the hardly exclusive issue of just what kind of student his programs will admit.
The researchers found that that Mexican-American Studies students out-performed their peers who didn't take the courses, even though the MAS students generally had lower grade point averages -- a result the study refers to as "counterintuitive".
Mr. Blumke, now 27, had a grade point average of 1.5 when he graduated from high school in Alanson, Mich.
Those athletes had a grade point average of 2.57 in their other classes, according to transcripts reviewed by the newspaper.
About 40percentt of the prospective teachers taking the licensing tests from 2002 to 2005 had a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on the traditional 4-point scale during college, up from 26percentt in the 1990s, the report said.
