The university of Oregon allows you to take 90 hours pass/fail...so all you have to do is take the last 38 hours at 4.0 to graduate with a 4.0 overall.... DD
As I understand it: The A students teach the B students how to work for the C students. Also: C's get degrees.
omg GPA's are teh stupid!!!! Seriously, wtf, whats the point of a gpa when you cant possibly compare it across majors/schools. Here is yaoluv's GPA replacement idea: They should just rank you for each class you take, if you are #1 in the class, you get a 4.0, #2 gets a 3.9, etc etc, of course weight it so that it makes sense for the size of the class. and then the avg of all of your ranks is your gpa. piece o' cake In a lot of engineering classes maybe 4% of the class gets an A, while kids in the business school think they are the **** when they get straight As, even though 70% of them get A's, then they think engineers are stoopid because they have low gpas and they fire them and send their work to india, no i am not bitter
Who cares what GPA you have really? As long as you graduate college and achieve what you originally came to do which is getting that degree. I mean I feel like I went to school for 4 years well 5 but who's counting? All for a piece of paper that says I am entitled to a bachelors degree and all of its privileges. Growing up, my parents put a lot of pressure on me and told me the importance of having a top notch GPA and how it's SO necessary to get "good" grades like 3.5+ but the more I think about it the more irrelevant it seems to me since I never was that great of a student in terms of having a " GOOD GPA " but now that I'm done with college and have a job that I love I would say there's far more things that outweigh a good gpa in college. My advice is don't stress too much on grades (I had 15 interviews before deciding on which job I wanted and NONE of them asked what my grades were like) in college because employers care more about who you are as a person in terms of social skills, responsibility etc (I mean what good is it to have a 4.0 and be on the Deans and graduate with honors and not have the social skills to give a good interview?) and it doesn't matter if you graduated with a 4.0 or a 2.0 or if you graduted in 5 years or 4 years or 3 1/2 years. Actually being able to stay in school to finish up and get that piece of paper shows dedication and willingess in itself.
I used to think my 3.66 in Construction Engineering was a great GPR. I mean I dont know anyone that has even close to that... but apparently it isnt good enough for a scholarship. Stupid kids who spend their life in their dorm rooms studying away rather than going out and getting drunk and doing stupid things that they will regret in the morning. Lame.
Seriously though, I thought the Psych major was just for hot girls looking for husbands. In my Navy days, every port we hit, my girl was a Psych major. Did you expect something so r****ded easy as a Psych degree to be worth anything? Buck up.
Through my first year of college, mine was 3.05 or something like that. For me, I thought that was horrible. I just felt dumb. Now, I'm done with that, and I start Radiologic Technology school on Monday. My goal is to graduate number one out of the six students in my class. I'm the only guy in the class, so that should be easy.
Which is to say you aren't qualified to give advice. God forbid we end up like you. Maybe god can help you. Good luck.
Yep, it's what I do best. Obviously. Actually in high school I had a terrible time. My best friend died from a gun shot wound, I moved away from all my friends, and I gained a crap load of weight. I changed my life around by my senior year, but I had like a 2.3 or so finishing up. A&M didn't want me, so I had to goto A&M Galveston, and from there I worked my ass off to get to College Station. But if my 2.3 could get me into A&M Galveston, I think it's resonable to believe that as long as you get where you want, your GPA wont make or break you.
My first major in college was psychology. At the time, I was working in a chemical dependancy hospital as a Psychiatric Technician. One day, my nursing supervisor asked me to weed through the applications they had for an open Tech. position on another shift. I made four piles, people with experience and education, people with education, people with experience, and people with nothing. Of the people with education, about half had BAs in psychology and were applying for my job at $7.60 per hour (in 1989). I changed my major the next day.
I would double major but since i only need 20 more hours to graduate and considering i graduated hs in 2002 i feel like i just need to get done soon.
That does suck. Even I got a 2.32 in my first year, and I barely tried at all... of course, that was at Texas Tech. One thing in regard to grad school is that many of them look at the last 60 hours of the bachelors degree when considering an applicant rather than the entire undergraduate performance. Speaking specifically of psychology, my mother had her bachelors and masters in psychology and had difficulty finding a job. She got almost all the way through her doctorate and, for some reason I don't understand at all, quit. She ended up becoming a college librarian (which required her to get another masters degree). Of course, it depends on what you want to do with it. My mother wanted to teach. In academia, the PhD is a requirement. I don't know about any other aspect of psychology.
