Is it OK to lose your scholarship in college?

[LW07]

Topic. If your GPA falls below the minimum required to keep the scholarship so you end up losing it, will that ruin my chances of getting a job when I get out? Pursuing a major in Information Systems.

I'm in my first year, and my World Civ class just seems RIGGED to give you a B no matter what, and two of my classes are linked so that even if you make an A in one, if your B is low enough it'll cause you to have a B in both classes which is completely BS, and I'm probably just going to drop my Calculus class and take it again in Spring 2011 with a better professor.

So I'm predicting at this rate of losing my Scholarship in my 3rd semester, which would mean having to pay for 5 semsesters.


How long would it take you to earn that money back when you're out and working? Tuition at my college is roughly $3000 for a 17-hour schedule, plus $400 in fees and $800 in books as of now, and God knows how it will be in the future.

 

[isekii]

it's great having to pay out of pocket~

 

[krylon]

Rigged? I think the only thing rigged for a B is your brain.

 

[orakle]

Drop any course that you think will make your GPA drop below the minimum and do it later.

Whoa, timewarp.

 

[Deeko]

I lost my scholarship in college. It resulted in an additional 30k in student loans. I'm fine.

 

[A5]

You'd be looking at $21k in student loans. I have no idea how long that would take to pay off though.

 

[DaveSimmons]

You can leave your scholarship off of your resume, employers will never know that you lost it.

GPA does matter for your first job, at least in my field (software development), so less ATOT and more studying might be a good idea.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

employers don't need to know anything about your scholarships or how you pissed them down the toilet

as far as paying it back, well that all depends on how much you make, doesn't it?

 

[LW07]

I'm leaving out room and board and meal plans since my college is close to home so next semester and from then on i'm moving out of the dorms.

Also, what jobs are out there for an Information Systems major, and what does Information Systems do that is different from Computer Science and Information Technology?

 

[nageov3t]

go to the professor and ask what more you could be doing to boost your grade?

maybe you're not putting enough research into your papers, writing detailed enough answers on tests, etc... they must have something that they're looking for that you're not bringing.

but to answer the original question... no one is going to know as long as you graduate. hell, even your GPA doesn't really matter after your first job.

 

[Blackjack200]

Originally posted by: LW07
Tuition at my college is roughly $3000 for a 17-hour schedule, plus $400 in fees and $800 in books as of now, and God knows how it will be in the future.

Where do you go to school? Kenya? My state school's tuition was more than twice that, and that was 5 years ago.

If you get a decent job after graduation you could pay off your loans in a couple of years.

 

[LW07]

Originally posted by: Blackjack200

Originally posted by: LW07
Tuition at my college is roughly $3000 for a 17-hour schedule, plus $400 in fees and $800 in books as of now, and God knows how it will be in the future.

Where do you go to school? Kenya? My state school's tuition was more than twice that, and that was 5 years ago.

If you get a decent job after graduation you could pay off your loans in a couple of years.

Those figures are per semester

 

[shiner]

So 1 class is rigged and another one you are having problems in because the professor is bad? Uh huh......riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I see a lot of fail in your future.

 

[Blackjack200]

Originally posted by: LW07

Originally posted by: Blackjack200

Originally posted by: LW07
Tuition at my college is roughly $3000 for a 17-hour schedule, plus $400 in fees and $800 in books as of now, and God knows how it will be in the future.

Where do you go to school? Kenya? My state school's tuition was more than twice that, and that was 5 years ago.

If you get a decent job after graduation you could pay off your loans in a couple of years.

Those figures are per semester

Figures, I'm out of school for five years and tuition flatlines.

http://www.njit.edu/bursar/tui.../undergrad-tuition.php

I'm sure it will start rocketing up again when I go back.

 

[LW07]

The two linked classes are American Studies(studying the civil rights movement and all that) and Comp.

American Studies I'm making A's in since I'm good at history but Comp I'm not doing so well in, may make a low B in there, and since the professor averages the two grades to give one final grade for both, which is beneficial if you have an A and a D so they average out to be a C or B since you have to pass with a C to not take them again. However, in my case it'd take my hard earned A and make it a B, hurting my GPA unnecessarily.

I've already conceded that I'll make a B in World Civ since the times I make an A on the weekly tests its usually a 90% or 92.5%

 

[Genx87]

wtf kind of school links two classes?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[mugs]

I think my first semester of college was my worst. Once you start taking more of your major classes your GPA should go up (you should do well in your major classes)

 

[Blackjack200]

Originally posted by: shiner
So 1 class is rigged and another one you are having problems in because the professor is bad? Uh huh......riiiiiiiiiiiiight.

I see a lot of fail in your future.

Nah. I spent two years in college out of high school, and cleared about 30 credits at a 1.9 GPA. Dropped out, spent six months working at a deli, realized I did not want to slice corned beef for the next 40 years, went back to school and graduated NJIT with a 3.6 GPA 3 years later.

Some people are just not ready after high school.

 

[LW07]

So generally speaking people tend to do better in their major classes than in gen-ed classes?

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Oh hell no. My Gen Ed classes are the easiest things I have ever come across. My major classes are damn hard.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: LW07
So generally speaking people tend to do better in their major classes than in gen-ed classes?

I guess that depends on how good you are at your chosen major. Certainly you should find your major courses more interesting, and I'd hope you chose something that you would do well at.

 

[A5]

Originally posted by: mugs
I think my first semester of college was my worst. Once you start taking more of your major classes your GPA should go up (you should do well in your major classes)

This was true for me as well. I got my only C my first semester (damn Calc 2/Linear Algebra). Still had a 3.14 that semester, and it only went up from there - got a 4.0 3 out of my last 4 semesters.

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LW07
So generally speaking people tend to do better in their major classes than in gen-ed classes?

I guess that depends on how good you are at your chosen major. Certainly you should find your major courses more interesting, and I'd hope you chose something that you would do well at.

Forget choice. If you're paying serious cash, you destroy the course. No in-betweens. Kids often make dumb choices with their parent's money.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: LW07
So generally speaking people tend to do better in their major classes than in gen-ed classes?

I guess that depends on how good you are at your chosen major. Certainly you should find your major courses more interesting, and I'd hope you chose something that you would do well at.

I don't really agree. I mean, most of the people with the highest GPAs where I went had majors like weed studies or some bullshit. No way I would say those assholes were smarter then the guy that had a B average in engineering. The core classes just plain require more work. I wasn't a business major, but most of the business courses I had to take were total jokes.

 

[LW07]

So what jobs would an Information Systems degree get you?

Also, what else is there to Information Technology besides slapping computers together and installing drivers and OS's?