Advice for freshmen entering college
pmb: Olin is designed to be challenging, and your fellow students are all going be selected from the top tier.  This means that you have a 50% chance of being worse than the median (and probably the mean, too).  You may need to learn how to learn from your peers, and learn how to act when you are not the smartest person in any given room.  It may be the very first time either of those two situations has come up for you!To get to graduate school, you'll need at least a 3.0 and good recommendations.  The good recommendations is pretty easy at a place like Olin as long as you are enthusiastic, but the 3.0 may be difficult given the average GPA at Olin in combination with point 1.You can have any two of: friends, grades, and sleep.  I recommend the first two, but make sure you sleep enough to maintain a baseline of bodily health, or else you will lose out on all 3.