What GPA/grades should you require your college student to get to keep paying for them to attend (after rough 1st year)?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
Eh well, if that were freshman year but things improved after that, I wouldn't care. |
Anonymous
This kid is pretty obviously not Zuck. Neither are 99.9999% of dropouts. Stop being stupid. |
Anonymous
OP, is this "out of character" for him? Was he a hardworking straight arrow in high school, and now he's off the rails? Was he getting a lot of help from parents and tutors in high school, and now he's got to fly solo and that's a lot harder? Possible that he is anxious and depressed? A lot of kids are, freshman year. I don't think "make him pay" is going to work. If he flunks out, how are you going to make him pay? Ask him what he thinks his performance standard should be, and what should happen if he doesn't meet it. |
Anonymous
C degrees from schools like JMU are worthless. |
Anonymous
| Barely a 2.0 from an open admit party school is essentially flunking in 2024. The flunky kid does not deserve another year of partying and pissing away your hard earned money. He should have cleaned up his act second semester back in January. You are throwing good money after bad to keep up appearances. Your kid knows you're full of s***, so why would they clean up their act, when you're so easy to take advantage of. And when I hear of a flunky changing his major, that means he got an easy B or something in some fluff class, so now that's his new major because it was so easy. That's not an mature kid buckling down and picking a competitive major, that's a lazy flunky picking the easiest path there is to coast. |
Anonymous
+1. The jobs he will get with an awful GPA at JMU are jobs he could get NOW without a degree. Sales, insurance, blue collar jobs. Immature young men like this need to first serve in the military for 4 years to grow up and value their time and education. Then he'd have GI Bill to pay for college, not wasting parents' life savings. |
Anonymous
| Professor here and if a student has lower than a 3.0 we are wondering what is wrong. Does he have an explanation? I'd say he has one semester to get above a 3.0 for the new semester's average (not cumulative), or he needs to return home to cc or something else. This is not a dig -- it's a service to him and you to not waste time or money. |
Anonymous
This is cute and sometimes true but it's also only true for about 1/1000 C students. So, not great advice. |
Anonymous
They're really not. The issue here is that students who graduate with a 2.0 are generally just not competitive for internships and jobs and do not have the skills or drive to be successful (yet, maybe). So if my son were getting a 2.0 at the end of his first year in college, we'd be having some type of come to Jesus meeting at home, not to shame but to help him find direction and a path to success. |
Anonymous
Nope, nope nope. Not if you are concerned about kid's mental health. In certain majors that can be challenging to get |
Anonymous
C's may get degrees but in today's environment, finding an internship and then a job will be damn near impossible without a 3.0+. Majority of companies recruiting on college campuses require a 3.0+ or they won't look at your resume. Some have 3.5+. I'd be concerned if my kid could not get near a 3.0. So is the issue it's too hard or they are not putting in the effort? Either way, I'd give them a semester to do better, otherwise they might be coming home for CC and to focus on their effort. |
Anonymous
3.0 is a requirement for most merit scholarships from departments |
Anonymous
So that happens for less than 1% of the cases. In reality, you need a 3.0+ (sometimes a 3.5+) to even get considered for an interview for a job or internship. Below that and your kid will have to search hard for even an interview. Why would I take someone with a 2.5 in college versus someone with a 3.5? Higher gpa shows dedication, perseverance and willingness to do well. I want someone like that on the team. A 2.5 is not that challenging to get at JMU. I have a kid at a school slightly higher ranked than JMU, they struggled first year (prehealth sciences) and ended freshman year with a 2.98. Sure they dropped a few courses, otherwise it would have been a 2.5ish. But that's part of figuring out college and knowing when to take a W rather than tanking your GPA. The bad grades in premed courses were gonna be too low to even count, so kid would have had to retake them anyhow. Instead they regrouped, put together a plan for a new major/new path and focused on brining up the gpa. Ended up a finance major and had 3.45 GPA. Had they started as business, it would have been 3.6+. But someone who got only a 2.0 either partied their way thru college or is NOT mature enough for college. Because if they cared and were workuing hard, they would have taken a W in a few courses and transitioned to a new major. |
Anonymous
I guess I missed OP mentioning her son graduated from Exeter, is a computer science student at Harvard, and his grades are dogsh*t because his startup has billionaire venture capitalists trying to throw millions at him... 
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