Would you let your child remain away at university if they were only earning a 2.0-2.5 gpa?
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Anonymous
Oh. So grades do or don’t matter? Why do college kids even try? What’s the point? |
Anonymous
| Yes, but I wouldn't pay for $70k/year at a private, if I could pay $20k in-state or less at community college. My freshman stumbled pretty hard the first semester and knew that I meant it that he had better get it together spring semester, or his sophomore year would be at community college and he could transfer back junior year. Better grades, still not great, but acceptable. |
Anonymous
It's harder to get that first job, and have it be a good job, with a crappy GPA. Some recruiters won't even look at anyone with less than 3.5 GPA. |
Anonymous
I have access to my daughter's college employment portal. Every internship has a 3.0 GPA cutoff and the more prestigious positions are all 3.5 GPA cutoff. I'm not sure what fantasy world parents live in where college GPA doesn't matter. And half of my daughter's class will head to grad school, where grades obviously matter. |
Anonymous
How does a kid get any decent summer internship with such an alarming GPA? |
Anonymous
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Something tells me that half these posters will rely on "Daddy's network" to get the kids internships/a first job.
These kids just keep not being held accountable. And the parents think they are serving them well?? |
Anonymous
| My kid has a gpa in engineering like that. He is working hard and having some growing pains. No evidence he isn’t doing his best. He will end up an engineer and have a nice career. He won’t end up at JPL, but that’s ok. |
Anonymous
| Mine had a 2.7 and then a 2.2 Freshman year. He stayed, got his act together, got at least a 3.0 rest of his time, accepted a job offer in October of his senior year (computer science major), moved to a city where he knew no one and now is happy and independent! I think the answer is ...there is no one answer. Does your kid recognize that they have not done as well as they can? Mine did hence the continued support |
Anonymous
To LEARN!!!!!!! But college isn’t high school. It’s not a competition. I had a tremendous college experience that was transformative and I believe my GPA was 3.1 or something. I failed a class my freshman year, and got a D in another class my sophomore year. It certainly didn’t stop me. |
Anonymous
| Outside of engineering and computer science, anything below a 3.0 GPA is just flushing money down the drain. Nobody’s going to risk their own career on-boarding such a red flag. |
Anonymous
3.1 != 2.0 to 2.5 |
Anonymous
| Stay in and get that piece of paper (diploma). That’s all that matters. No one will care about GPA, only that you graduated. |
Anonymous
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Cs DO get you degrees.
No one asks for a GPA unless it's grad school or some competitive internship. |
Anonymous
Plus 1 million |
Anonymous
I agree with this. Something is wrong somewhere. You have to work hard to get a C in grade inflation. Unless you are getting a degree in some field where no one cares (what field would that be?) I would not be wanting to pay for it |