My GPA sucks.

[ManSnake]

I failed kindergarten!

 

[Corporate Thug]

science majors should add an extra .5 GPA when comparing themselves to non-science major. my friend is an aerospace engineering major and his GPA is 3.2 as where I (a poli sci major) have a 3.7 GPA but he is smarter

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: shady06
science majors should add an extra .5 GPA when comparing themselves to non-science major. my friend is an aerospace engineering major and his GPA is 3.2 as where I (a poli sci major) have a 3.7 GPA but he is smarter

Am I allowed to make the adjustment if I'm an econ+math major? 'Cuz I would love to have a 3.75 equiv. GPA.

 

[CoolTech]

Who says you should be able to make this .5 gpa addition? Usually people who go into scientific fields have been adept at logical based courses their whole lives. So, why should someone who has always been good at writing or business be discounted just because they dont excel at math/science. Crock of b.s. if you ask me. Fact is, business majors run these scientific companies and in the end usually make more over time than any little engineer drawing out schematics in his/her cubicle. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: shady06
science majors should add an extra .5 GPA when comparing themselves to non-science major. my friend is an aerospace engineering major and his GPA is 3.2 as where I (a poli sci major) have a 3.7 GPA but he is smarter

Am I allowed to make the adjustment if I'm an econ+math major? 'Cuz I would love to have a 3.75 equiv. GPA.

math is science, i grant you 3.75

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: CoolTech
Who says you should be able to make this .5 gpa addition? Usually people who go into scientific fields have been adept at logical based courses their whole lives. So, why should someone who has always been good at writing or business be discounted just because they dont excel at math/science. Crock of b.s. if you ask me. Fact is, business majors run these scientific companies and in the end usually make more over time than any little engineer drawing out schematics in his/her cubicle. Just my 2 cents.

it was just a joke, my point was IMO, science majors have it way harder than other majors

 

[ryzmah]

I was a math/physics major, and I thought the architecture guys had it a lot tougher - maybe not as conceptually difficult but a ton more work.

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: notfred
2.265. Blah. I suck at trying hard in classes that don't interest me. At least I already have a job.

People with 3.5+ GPAs (in science and engineering majors) How many hours/week do you spend studying?

BTW, if you're in high school, I don't care about your GPA at all, don't bother posting it.

I thought you were heading to Med School?
I got in with about that GPA, but college was ten years ago for me, so the school gave me a break.

You got into Med school with about a 2.3 GPA?!

 

[UnatcoAgent]

Originally posted by: RichieZ

Originally posted by: FallenHero
B, A, A, A, B, A, A, A, A ,A, A

U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,B,A,SEL,START

LOL

 

[Lithium381]

in the last part of my first year, i plan on leaving with a 3.0 not to great, but not bad either

 

[KahunaHube]

gpa is largely affected by which school you go to. The reason being you are with other students with about hte same brainpower as you.

you can go to a second rate university and get a 3.8 while doing the same amoutn of work will get you a 3.0 in a first rate university.

it depends what school you go to and what the average intelligence is of htat school

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

I think I can top everyone...I had a 1.78 gpa at the university I went to as a CS major, so I wound up at home again (Intro to Java + Calc 1 was a big mistake). My parents weren't too happy, but I got a 3.38 gpa at the local community college and plan on going to a different university as a history major.

 

[borealiss]

my gpa is around 3.0. 3.3 for major gpa. i don't go to class when i need to finish a compiler project, which is ... more time than it should be. last project was 60+ hours i think. seriously though, i spend a sh!tload of time studying, usually ace projects, but always do horribly on tests regardless. this was the case with my ee classes. didn't sleep so i can pull a B in the class, i hate solid state physics. at my peak, i was studying close to 6 hours a day outside of class. i figure if i learn something in class and truly get the material, i don't care what i get in the class, as long as it's not failing. yes, i've lost faith in the educational grading system. but if you know your stuff well, it'll show up in the workplace and you'll be recognized. this is my experience anyways.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: KahunaHube
gpa is largely affected by which school you go to. The reason being you are with other students with about hte same brainpower as you.

you can go to a second rate university and get a 3.8 while doing the same amoutn of work will get you a 3.0 in a first rate university.

it depends what school you go to and what the average intelligence is of htat school

you are absolutely right

 

[ed21x]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: CoolTech
Who says you should be able to make this .5 gpa addition? Usually people who go into scientific fields have been adept at logical based courses their whole lives. So, why should someone who has always been good at writing or business be discounted just because they dont excel at math/science. Crock of b.s. if you ask me. Fact is, business majors run these scientific companies and in the end usually make more over time than any little engineer drawing out schematics in his/her cubicle. Just my 2 cents.

it was just a joke, my point was IMO, science majors have it way harder than other majors

It's weird how so many business majors here at Cal have some sort of notion of magically becoming a CEO right when they graduate, when truth is, the average opening salary for an engineer is actually higher. Combine this with the fact that most major companies are founded by people with the necessary skills to succeed in their respective fields (ie, the company that I work at, Point of View, was founded by a group of programmers comming together in Irvine) and you tell me once again when a business major has actually been able to succeed in a specialized field.

I have to admit though, a good number of business majors I know are doing quite well in accounting and consulting.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: ed21x

It's weird how so many business majors here at Cal have some sort of notion of magically becoming a CEO right when they graduate, when truth is, the average opening salary for an engineer is actually higher. Combine this with the fact that most major companies are founded by people with the necessary skills to succeed in their respective fields (ie, the company that I work at, Point of View, was founded by a group of programmers comming together in Irvine) and you tell me once again when a business major has actually been able to succeed in a specialized field.

I have to admit though, a good number of business majors I know are doing quite well in accounting and consulting.

you wanna see something real funny? Apply for their jobs and see them bitch when you get interviews (and offers) over them.
I graduated from cal with an engineering degree and when into finance (wall st.), so when I was applying to jobs I was going up against haas majors.

The only crummy part is what someone above mentioned about GPAs. While I don't think you can generalize about people's intelligence based on their major, I do remember that engineering GPAs and business GPAs (at least at Cal) were scaled completely differently. So if a company gets an assload of applicants for a job, their first screen is probably based on school and GPA, so a lot of engineers will get screened eventhough their 3.2 GPA may be equivalent to a 3.5 from Haas.

 

[HokieESM]

Originally posted by: Hector13


you wanna see something real funny? Apply for their jobs and see them bitch when you get interviews (and offers) over them.
I graduated from cal with an engineering degree and when into finance (wall st.), so when I was applying to jobs I was going up against haas majors.

The only crummy part is what someone above mentioned about GPAs. While I don't think you can generalize about people's intelligence based on their major, I do remember that engineering GPAs and business GPAs (at least at Cal) were scaled completely differently. So if a company gets an assload of applicants for a job, their first screen is probably based on school and GPA, so a lot of engineers will get screened eventhough their 3.2 GPA may be equivalent to a 3.5 from Haas.

Hector.... well, business majors definitely have their place in the workplace... and do (sometimes) lead the companies. But I do know the #1 job for a straight-out-of-school business graduate at NCSU (when I graduated in '99) was waiter/waitress. Getting into a corporation (especially a technical one) with just a business degree can be VERY difficult. Strangely, you didn't have trouble getting into finance, though....

There was a JOKE on our Tshirts at NCSU (I was ME):

lim(GPA -> 0) College of Engineering = College of Business

Anyhow. Low GPAs aren't always a sign of someone being "stupid". A lot of corporations AND grad schools view your GPA as a sign of your motivation/willingness to work (to a degree, of course). Same thing with out-of-major GPA--its not overly important to what you do, but it can be a sign of how hard you're willing to work or how well-rounded you are (there are still a LOT of engineers that can't write... believe me, I worked in the Writing Center one semester... its rough).

 

[glen]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic

Originally posted by: glen

Originally posted by: notfred
2.265. Blah. I suck at trying hard in classes that don't interest me. At least I already have a job.

People with 3.5+ GPAs (in science and engineering majors) How many hours/week do you spend studying?

BTW, if you're in high school, I don't care about your GPA at all, don't bother posting it.

I thought you were heading to Med School?
I got in with about that GPA, but college was ten years ago for me, so the school gave me a break.

You got into Med school with about a 2.3 GPA?!

I had a good MCAT, a 3.75 in the sciences, and great interviews.
This presented a dilemma to the comities, because grades are traditionally an important factor in their decision making process.
So, I was the a guy who made them go with what they all know deep down, that grades really don't mean a whole lot.

In life, most of the time grades don't matter.
In a certain few arbitrary situations, like graduate school applications, grades will be used to separate you from the other folks. But if you can sell yourself as someone really great, then you can convince folks of what they already know, and truely believe,, that grades don't mean sh!t.

 

Political Science major (one of the hardest programs at UM after Engin) - my GPA after one full school year is 3.75.

 

[QueHuong]

lim(GPA -> 0) College of Engineering = College of Business

LOL, that is great.

My GPA in Engineering: 2.9. Whenever I see non-engineering majors brag about their GPAs, it makes me want to throw my physics book at them. My modern language major roommate is like that. He was bragging about his 3.7 GPA and about making the Dean's List. I gave him problem #5 from Chapter 2 from my physics textbook to solve because he was being too arrogant. Other than logic, you only needed to know speed = distance / time, which is obvious. Mr. Dean's List didn't have the brain power to solve the problem, and he even took physics in high school (and blamed his teacher for his inadequacies in the class). What's even funnier is that as an engineer, I placed into a higher English course than the modern language dude (Advanced English 112 vs Honors English 101).

 

[djplayx714]

Originally posted by: coldcut
Join a frat?

Actually frats make you maintain above a 3.0 in order to stay in. Well at least my frat (Sigma Nu) does.

 

[wyvrn]

Here have a cookie.

Originally posted by: MindStorm

lim(GPA -> 0) College of Engineering = College of Business

LOL, that is great.

My GPA in Engineering: 2.9. Whenever I see non-engineering majors brag about their GPAs, it makes me want to throw my physics book at them. My modern language major roommate is like that. He was bragging about his 3.7 GPA and about making the Dean's List. I gave him problem #5 from Chapter 2 from my physics textbook to solve because he was being too arrogant. Other than logic, you only needed to know speed = distance / time, which is obvious. Mr. Dean's List didn't have the brain power to solve the problem, and he even took physics in high school (and blamed his teacher for his inadequacies in the class). What's even funnier is that as an engineer, I placed into a higher English course than the modern language dude (Advanced English 112 vs Honors English 101).

 

[KEV1N]

I'll graduate from the University of California, Davis in a couple of weeks with a degree in Computer Science (minor in English). I will most likely have a 2.7

 

[UNCjigga]

not a science/engineering major, but I was until it killed my GPA! I switched to econ and poli sci junior year. I graduated with a 2.5 overall, 2.8 in econ, 3.0 in poli sci and I did it all in four years.

Still trying to figure out what to do with my life though. It's gotten to the point where I've had to rethink what it is I want to be. I'm the kinda geek who scores really high on the verbal section of standardized tests and not so well in the math section. I suck at math, yet I wanted to be a developer, and I went to a school where computer science was handled under the faculty of mathematics...how stupid could I be? My new ambition is to be a designer, yet right now I'm working as a business analyst/consultant. I'm confused ...

 

[TDY2KN01]

I have a 3.2 GPA as a Bio major @ UCR. I'm a sophmore. I've done avg on lower division class but exceptionally well in the only upper division class - Ochem. I hope this will be the trend. Do graduate school weight each school differently depend how generously a school give out grade? Anyone know whats the grade you need for pharmacy school?