In her complaint, Thompson says she seeks $70,000 in reimbursement for her tuition and $2,000 to compensate for the stress of her three-month job search.</p>
<p>As Thompson sees it, any reasonable employer would pounce on an applicant with her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average and a solid attendance record. But Monroes career-services department has put forth insufficient effort to help her secure employment, she claims.</p>
<p>Theyre supposed to say, I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right can you interview this person? Theyre not doing that, she said.</p>
<p>her academic credentials, which include a 2.7 grade-point average</p>
<p>Since she also claims to have a solid attendance record, yet ONLY managed to have a 2.7 GPA, that suggests that she’s a rather dim bulb. Anyone who shows up consistently and is smart, should have at least a 3.5 GPA.</p>
<p>She sounds like someone with an entitlement attitude that has no idea that no one is impressed by a 2.7 GPA…especially an employer because it suggests that she’s not a hard worker or she’s a slow learner.</p>
<p>I am fairly sure this case was the subject of a previous thread.</p>
<p>I am very sympathetic to the student because I live in NYC. The subways here often have poster ads for Monroe and those ads focus on post-grad employment. In other words, Monroe markets itself by saying that you can build a better life for yourself and your family by getting a degree from Monroe. The ads imply that you are guaranteed a good paying job if you complete one of their programs, all of which seem to be vocationally-focused. The ads target audience seems to be people in their 20s and early 30s stuck in dead end jobs. I assume the plaintiff worked full time and went to school part time. I have tremendous respect for anyone who does this–yes, even if she only gets a 2.7. </p>
<p>I think the case has resulted in some modification of the claims Monroe was making in the ads, which, IMO, is a good thing.</p>
<p>“I am fairly sure this case was the subject of a previous thread.”</p>
<p>It was! The discussions were in August 2009.</p>
<p>Fwiw, there was another case discussed on CC, but with a different a twist. The other case was about a NY school pushing students to use financial aid to pay for school AND living expenses. In the end, the almost worthless degree from a mediocre school was of no help to find the “promised” job.</p>
<p>The title of the thread is troubling as it includes the student’s gpa. I have to wonder… if the gpa had been 4.0, would anyone’s viewpoint be altered?</p>
<p>I’m not sure about this one, but there are a lot of schools that exist only because student loans are available. No one who was spending his own money and had been smart enough and industrious enough to earn it would ever spend it at some of these schools.</p>
<p>“if the gpa had been 4.0, would anyone’s viewpoint be altered?”</p>
<p>It wouldn’t change my opinion of the merits of the lawsuit, but it would take away one of the many levels of irony in the story. It takes a particularly blinkered worldview to believe that if a 2.7 student doesn’t have a job, it must be the fault of the career office.</p>
<p>Thing is someone who managed a 4.0 GPA was someone who held up his/her side of the bargain to do “his/her part” by meeting or in this case, exceeding minimal academic performance. </p>
<p>On the other hand, someone who attains a GPA of 2.7…or any GPA below 3.0 is often seen by prospective entry-level employers as a student who is either dim and/or a slacker type whose work-habits may prove detrimental for their workplaces. From the time I was in high school, every teacher, guidance counselor, relative, and college faculty/staff emphasized that one must maintain a minimum of a 3.0 GPA throughout one’s college career so it won’t serve as a detracting point to potential employers. </p>
<p>This was especially emphasized by one older cousin who graduated college in the late 1980’s. He was turned down for dozens of interviews or had several interviews cut short the instant they asked and found his cumulative GPA was a ten-thousandth of a point below 3.0…and they didn’t care that he was an engineering major from URochester. Basic point he kept hearing from the interviewers, “If a graduating student’s cumulative GPA is below a 3.0, they’re not interested in hiring him/her”. </p>
<p>In short, this 2.7 GPA college grad should have her suit laughed out of court…</p>
<p>If the most outstanding feature of this applicant is his/her perfect attendance, she might want to work at a place that values that trait over everything else. Wonder what she/he has turned down.</p>
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