Would you let your child remain away at university if they were only earning a 2.0-2.5 gpa?

[Anonymous]

Great logic on this board.

Bad but passing grades are worse for your career prospects than no degree at all.

Got it. Thanks for informing me, otherwise I would have thought that idea was ridiculous. Or stupid. Or insane.

[Anonymous]

Do you have the network to get him a job?

If so, no worries.

I don't see that you really have any alternative anyway.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t continue to pay 75k a year for those results. I’d have DC take a year off and work and then re-enroll if they showed discipline and maturity.

[Anonymous]

"My child GETS that we have an unwritten contract: I will write checks for four years (that represent decades of hard work on my part), because she is mature and responsible enough to make good use of my investment. I am not underwriting Animal House antics. What kind of employees (and spouses) will your kids be if you don't hold them accountable now????"

They will be employees and spouses who got the Animal House antics out of their systems and chose a better path.

That is to say they will be intrinsically motivated employees and spouses rather than extrinsically motivated robots who some day might figure out they have free will.

People who have to be held accountable by someone else have a fairly low ceiling on how far they will get.

[Anonymous]

My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

ah..meritocracy at work. /s Clearly, you don't need that much brain power for sales jobs. I'm glad he's not doing anyone's accounting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know several high net worth men (50 million net worth)
who were not successful in college.

That is anecdotal. There are far more people who did poorly in college who are working low pay jobs than those who are worth millions. Chances are not in OP's kid's favor.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

ah..meritocracy at work. /s Clearly, you don't need that much brain power for sales jobs. I'm glad he's not doing anyone's accounting.

You sound bitter.

And you miss her point.

And sales jobs are hard to do and hard to keep, so if he doesn't perform it will be on him. Also, sales jobs are where the money for everyone else's salaries come from, and why most CEOs are promoted from revenue lines.

So, in addition to bitter, you sound ignorant.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Once you get that first job GPA never matters again.

Oh. So grades do or don’t matter? Why do college kids even try? What’s the point?

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.

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.

Here's a shocker for you...MANY people have careers and get jobs without ever having an internship.

Another shocker, not all grad schools care about grades, especially if you are older than 30.

Finally, your daughter is an adult. Time to cut the strings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

It's weird that you are semi bragging about your kid having such a poor GPA. Is he lazy or just dumb?

Either way, nothing to be proud of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

It's weird that you are semi bragging about your kid having such a poor GPA. Is he lazy or just dumb?

Either way, nothing to be proud of.

Oh, so "semi-bragging"="admitting something you otherwise wouldn't to make a point and maybe help someone"?

Thanks. I learn so much here. Especially about how to be judgmental and a jerk.

(ps - not the PP)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

It's weird that you are semi bragging about your kid having such a poor GPA. Is he lazy or just dumb?

Either way, nothing to be proud of.

Oh, so "semi-bragging"="admitting something you otherwise wouldn't to make a point and maybe help someone"?

Thanks. I learn so much here. Especially about how to be judgmental and a jerk.

(ps - not the PP)

We have a decent network too and will certainly pull strings to get our kids jobs when the time comes. But I would be so embarrassed to do so with a child with a 2.1 GPA!!! I don't care how much money you have (and we happen to have a lot before you start accusing me of jealousy). I don't abide lazy jackasses like that person's son. Period.

It's certainly something I would go around bragging about.

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Anonymous wrote:

We have a decent network too and will certainly pull strings to get our kids jobs when the time comes. But I would be so embarrassed to do so with a child with a 2.1 GPA!!! I don't care how much money you have (and we happen to have a lot before you start accusing me of jealousy). I don't abide lazy jackasses like that person's son. Period.

It's certainly something I would go around bragging about.

And neither did the PP.

And you just called someone else's child -- that you don't know -- a "lazy jackass"

You, mam, are a piece of work. You disgust me.

Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"My child GETS that we have an unwritten contract: I will write checks for four years (that represent decades of hard work on my part), because she is mature and responsible enough to make good use of my investment. I am not underwriting Animal House antics. What kind of employees (and spouses) will your kids be if you don't hold them accountable now????"

They will be employees and spouses who got the Animal House antics out of their systems and chose a better path.

That is to say they will be intrinsically motivated employees and spouses rather than extrinsically motivated robots who some day might figure out they have free will.

People who have to be held accountable by someone else have a fairly low ceiling on how far they will get.

Agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid graduated from one of the big 3 private schools in the DMV with a 2.8 GPA. He attended UVA on a partial athletic scholarship and graduated with a 2.1 GPA in accounting major two years ago. He got his first job through a Sidwell alumni, who played the same sport and graduated twenty years ago, for 90K/yr with bonus. He just got promoted to director of sale with a salary of 300k/yr. Networking is 100 times more important than grade.

It's weird that you are semi bragging about your kid having such a poor GPA. Is he lazy or just dumb?

Either way, nothing to be proud of.

Such an offensive remark.

I am proud that my kid graduated with 2.1 GPA because I know he did everything that was asked of him and more. You can only control how much hard work you put in, you can not control the outcome. I am glad the school alumini saw his hard work ethic and gave him the opportunity to succeed.

College football and NFL are littered with failure millionaire coaches. They failed so many times that's why they succeed.