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[quote]Anonymous wrote: 
 I suggest you look at the current 4 year grad rates. Not good. Most kids don't turn into better students at college ... they're exposed, they get to drink, they can skip class. A 3.4 gpa is a classic 5-6 year bachelor kid.

Ridiculous. My GPA was lower than that and I not only graduated on time, but got a Masters degree after. Many of my friends were the same way...they hit their stride in college and became even better students.''

[b]You're not aware of national stats. WaPO did a piece on this phenomenon about two years ago.[/b] More than 60% of our nation's children are taking 5 to 6 years to graduate. Many drop out for reasons we didn't have to - to earn money to pay for tuition. So they drop out, earn money, and return. Other kids are lured into the foreign campus away programs to return and find out they can't finish their senior thesis or get the final set of classes they need for their major (my college is deliberately encouraging this so they can run 5 years of students through the system at any one time, instead of the expected four). Others start at a community college, take a break and return. [/quote]

PP, Just because there are national stats does not mean that (a) this is always the case or (b) that colleges are going to freeze out students with these GPAs. Please temper your doom and gloom on this thread--it's stressful enough to go through this process.

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