<p>How do you get a 4.0 in college? With EC and all that... It's the 1st time in my life I'm serious about getting a 4.0 and I have absolutely no free time! Any tips?</p>
<p>Near impossible. I work and I try to do EC's but it's hard. I know last semester I was averaging 6 hours of sleep a night and not sleeping one day. This semester I'm trying to sleep 7 hours a night and I'm so busy. </p>
<p>So yeah it's near impossible, if you want to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This semester I'm working out 2 hours a day, taking 17 credits, volunteering, working 40+ hours a week and taking part in a club at school. I'm trying to increase my chances for transfer into a better school. I know people who do even more than I do and I don't know how it's done.</p>
<p>Tips? </p>
<p>I recommend always having at least one day/night to yourself. I always go out Saturday night to party and relieve stress.
Take one weekend off to yourself once a month to catch up on work and then relax.
Buy an organizer or just keep things in order. Organization is key. You want everything to go smoothly and right after another.
Work before play. </p>
<p>That's what I do and it works out for me. I manage to have some free time during the week. But not to often. I usually don't go out weekday nights and save weekends for leisure.</p>
<p>Time and priority management. You need to figure out which classes absolutely require you to do all the reading and which ones you can skim or sometimes skip altogether. </p>
<p>That and caffeine, lots and lots of caffeine.</p>
<p>work like a dog, and make sure you do exactly what the professors want, and study like a champ...</p>
<p>Skip classes that don't take attendance and just read the book and ace all the tests.</p>
<p>Sometimes it's just the opposite: Go to class and take notes, but don't read the textbook! It depends on the class.</p>
<p>I work 40 hours a week, take 6 classes, and I commute to 3 different community colleges. And I still got free time, although not a lot. Still able to bike about 6 hours a week. But then again, I'm not getting a 4.0, maybe a 3.0 </p>
<p>Eh, money is good, I like money.</p>
<p>community college is different.
getting a 4.0 at a cc is cake.. even while working full-time.</p>
<p>If CC was that much easier, why are the credits transferrable? Possibly a loophole in the college education system? And how does that make you feel that you pay so much more money for the same classes, and you must work a LOT harder?
(I'm talking lower division courses)</p>
<p>That's just the way CC is.</p>
<p>Not all community colleges are easy. However, as far as geting a 4.0, you don't need it to get into top professional schools or graduate schools. A 3.75 or better should be enough, assuming that you also have strong test scores. In fact, I know people who got into top schools with a 3.65 overall GPA.</p>
<p>classes at CC compared with classes at a university cover nearly the same damn identical material in the same amount of time. How would that automatically be easier?</p>
<p>And i work 40 hours a week, take 15 units, live an hr long drive away from my cc in traffic, work 30 miles away from home, have plenty of time to party and relax as i am one of those students that dont study or go to class but maintain a slightly higher than B average (3.3)</p>
<p>classes at cc are different because the professors don't really expect too much from their students, since it's a community college.</p>
<p>i've been to community college, my state school, and now attend a prestigious public univ., and trust me, the differences are HUGE.</p>
<p>south pasdena, you wouldn't survive if you had that schedule and if u were taking classes at berkeley for example.</p>
<p>oh boy, considering i know the work they do at usc and ucla and I often help friends with econ, bio and chem, i think i know what the professors are expecting. The CC class is going to depend on the professor, that is all. Some are harder than others, but period, the material you must know is nearly the same regardless. Possibly it is the CC you went to, who knows. I see the work they do, but i have sat in on very few classes, so i dont know the entire experience if that is what you want to refer it as. </p>
<p>And how would you know if my schedule would not fit if i was at a "prestigious" university. I seem to be able to maintain a decent GPA doing nearly nothing. I am sure if effort was to be put in, i would be fine. I just dont know how to do that really, i have no clue how people study study and study. Working as an actual job i can do fine, but studying and school work seems so meaningless, at least know it is becuase every class i have had to take is material i already know...equals BORING as hell</p>
<p>haha wow.
let's just say i want to see you not study, party all the time, and work 40 hours, while attending a school like uchicago. </p>
<p>and a 3.3 at a cc is not a decent gpa. it pretty much sucks.</p>
<p>i played 40 hours of WOW and maintained a 3.5-3.6 at my university hahaha</p>
<p>WOW, the reason for lost friendships and all my friends that play(ed) gained at least 20 pounds.</p>
<p>CC's might teach the same things as universities, but I think the student body will make the biggest difference.</p>
<p>Better student body = more competition = tougher grading and more effort needed to excel</p>
<p>A 3.5 at a prestigious school means more to employers than a 3.5 at a CC for this very reason. More than just the school's name, it shows that the guy from the prestigious school probably went through a whole lot more to get there.</p>
<p>Uchicago, now that is totally different than schools like ucla and usc. Now, obviously grading curves are going to be harder, that is the only difference. Now the amount of work i put in now would probably be a failing grade at Uchicago, but i think if i was at ucla or usc, i would be around the same range. First i would be able to take a broader range of classes that include new material or interesting material and i would be more motivated to put in an effort. At least i think, i have not been put into a situation where i have been graded on a curve at those universities. Hell i would never know, i am aiming low for my transfer choices like long beach and fullerton due to the cheap costs of 3k a year. All i need is to ace my accounting classes and would have reached my goal and be competitive for a big 4 job. No need for an expensive presitigous university. </p>
<p>My biggest observation is that the dumbest students i have found were in my econ classes and bio classes.</p>
<p>And 3.5 at prestigous vs 3.5 at cc means nothing, compare 3.5 at prestigious and state and what you have is a company (at least for banking/consulting) buying a student for their school's name and recognition so they can use that as a marketing/business tool to drive sales etc</p>
<p>3.3GPA if it is good or not is relative considering the amount of work i put in and what i get out. And compared to a university, ask anyone that has gone to Mount San Antonio college, they have a hellish and extreme attendance policy. For example my accounting and econ class right now. If you miss 4 classes, the teachers have reserved the right to drop you or reduce your grade by a certain number of points, in both cases those points add up to nearly an entire grade point, so you go from an A to a B just from absences even if everything is in on time and your midterms/final were both A's. Now think about that and see how my earned grades a really portrayed in my overall GPA. 2 semesters ago i was taking Bio, i had the highest grade in the class with like a 96%, but i missed one 2 many classes and was told by my teacher he had to fail me per department policy. Guess what i got an F. I was told 1 damn week before the final. Now times that by every class and you have an absurd policy that screws me and anyone else like me that can cake walk through these classes without being there and are in turn punished</p>