Looked over my college transcripts, and ....

[Anonymous]

I wasn't as good a student as I remembered! I got mainly Bs or B+s, followed by As and then 3 Cs. I ended up with a grade point average of 3.25. I quickly figure out I could easily get Bs but As were more studying than I wanted to do after being a straight A student in high school.

I'm not in a profession where the grades were important; instead it was the internships, and so I walked right out of college into a job in my field. I've never even had to show my transcripts before to anyone; a potential employer wants to see them.

Were your college grades crucial to your success?

[Anonymous]

Yes, but I got a PhD. For grad school grades matter. And even if you go ten years later they still drag them out...

[Anonymous]

How many years out of college are you??

[Anonymous]

DH and I both remembered be straight A students in HS. When we moved, we were going through a few boxes and pulled out some of our HS transcripts... turns out we had a few more Bs in the mix than we had remembered... and DH had a C or two.

It has given me a little more compassion for my kids as they are now in MS and HS. Times are more competitive these days, but still, B's are not the end of the world.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday’s B is today’s A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday’s B is today’s A.

So true

[Anonymous]

My college GPA in the early 80s was 3.89. Summa cum laude! Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How many years out of college are you??

Lots. 35 years.

[Anonymous]

Funny, mine are -much- better than I would have thought. I loved college. It was a blast! I didn't study a lot (at all) so I'm amazed at how well I did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I wasn't as good a student as I remembered! I got mainly Bs or B+s, followed by As and then 3 Cs. I ended up with a grade point average of 3.25. I quickly figure out I could easily get Bs but As were more studying than I wanted to do after being a straight A student in high school.

I'm not in a profession where the grades were important; instead it was the internships, and so I walked right out of college into a job in my field. I've never even had to show my transcripts before to anyone; a potential employer wants to see them.

Were your college grades crucial to your success?

Gpa and transcript matters for law school and med school and tough masters/phd programs.
I was summa cum laude, 3.7 cumul gpa but recall my senior year gpa was 3.2 given all grad classes plus Wall Street recruiting all fall semester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How many years out of college are you??

Lots. 35 years.

Wow. I'd tell that employer to pound sand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I got a PhD. For grad school grades matter. And even if you go ten years later they still drag them out...

Engineering grades were brutal. You could still go to grad school at a good school with a few B’s and C’s - with funding. All A’s were very hard fought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I got a PhD. For grad school grades matter. And even if you go ten years later they still drag them out...

Engineering grades were brutal. You could still go to grad school at a good school with a few B’s and C’s - with funding. All A’s were very hard fought.

Thirty five years ago, I went to grad school for engineering (think large SEC university) with a 2.89 undergrad (upward trending though; brutal first semester). I don't think that would happen today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but I got a PhD. For grad school grades matter. And even if you go ten years later they still drag them out...

Engineering grades were brutal. You could still go to grad school at a good school with a few B’s and C’s - with funding. All A’s were very hard fought.

Thirty five years ago, I went to grad school for engineering (think large SEC university) with a 2.89 undergrad (upward trending though; brutal first semester). I don't think that would happen today.

Maybe if it was Georgia Tech it would happen. You would have to mostly have A’s your last two years. You do need to master the subject eventually to move on.
I wonder how many kids just quit now after getting some crappy grades the first year or two instead of sticking it out?

[Anonymous]

. Computer science is so badly needed that the “regular” companies (those that are not amazon, google, etc) can’t afford To be picky. If a kid can get a few CS classes under their belt with A’s and intern after Sophomore or Junior year, a company that invests in them will gladly take them after graduation.. high GPA or not. Even a lot of those w/o internships can write their own tickets., because the ones that did intern are already taken.