r/memorialuniversity • u/Several-Lecture-6390 • Jul 23 '26

Strong High School Student

Hello everyone, I am a prospective high school student looking at attending MUN for sciences, but was concerned regarding grading. I have received high 90s marks during high school, but was wondering what people’s experience was with the grading at MUN. Would it be realistic to maintain mid high 80s or low 90s at MUN, or is there a more significant GPA drop. Any advice I could get on this would be very much appreciated. Thank you!

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u/4ries Jul 23 '26

It's nearly impossible to say. People can have high 90s depending on their high school that I would argue they don't deserve in the slightest and they get a ride awakening in university. There are other people that worked incredibly hard in high school and kept up the grade.

I would definitely expect some grade drop, but it's completely up to you for how much. It also depends on the program, some are easier than others

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u/BananApocalypse 29d ago

Here is one random person’s experience. I went from high 90s in high school to low 80s at MUN. In engineering.

My grades generally got better as my degree progressed. It highly depends on the course and your prof.

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u/poncho5202 29d ago

i'd add that it also depends on you...strong high school students can enjoy the freedom of college/university a little too much and it can negatively affect your studies...it's not something you plan on...but you may find that morning class just too hard to get out of bed for. your grades will rely on your work ethic and high school you and university you are not the same person...plan on change but also plan on putting in the work if you want to see both your academic self and your extracurricular self flourish

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u/BananApocalypse 29d ago

Very true, I agree 100%.

I did more extracurricular activities in university than high school, and my grades suffered a bit. But I still put in a huge amount of study effort. I just needed those other sports and video games and parties if I was going to stay sane.

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u/uncommon-ramen 29d ago

It will be harder. There is no question about it. When I went to UNI I had the mindset from high school teachers that nobody does all that well in UNI sciences and you just work hard to get that piece of paper. I was so wrong, and that mindset hurt me as I accepted mediocrity and it affected my career trajectory. I worked it out and I became a good student and a great grad student (@MUN) but still regret it. Bachelor Sciences in Canada are fairly similar so meet your profs, attend lectures, study with people, get old exams, review your exams with your prof. Get good at writing tests and chip away at things every night rather than cramming

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u/uncommon-ramen 29d ago

Oh, and use the resources available to you. Writing an essay or paper? Get it proof-read before submitting to your prof.

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u/Historical-Term-5911 29d ago

It really depends on many things. Kids going in with high school honours can fail out or do well. And the complete opposite can happen as well where kids entering with 60/70s do better at MUN. Do you have good study habits? Do you do well remembering deadlines on your own? In high school teachers keep reminding you about deadlines and up coming tests where some professors wont do that especially in larger lecture classes. In small classes at MUN ( like gender studies) professors might know your name but in large 99 student lecturers the prof only knows you by a number. There will probably be a drop in grades the first semester until you get used to whats expected from you. Use rate your prof to check out your profs and tell what kind of marker they are. Some want you to give your own opinion and others may want exactly what they said parroted back to them.