<p>How hard is it to bring your GPA up to... let's say a 3.5 from a 3.0 if you're a freshman?
Let's say you get a 3.0 your first semester, how hard would it be to reach a 3.5 by the end of your senior year?</p>
<p>If you can’t do the math, then very hard.</p>
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<p>With A’s next semester in the same number of credits, you could have that by the end of the year.</p>
<p>…"If you can’t do the math, then very hard. "</p>
<p>Mathematically, you could easily do it by the end of freshman year.</p>
<p>The actual difficulty of obtaining that, however, depends on the courses you’re taking, your major, the professors you have, the school you’re going to, etc.</p>
<p>No one here can really answer that for you.</p>
<p>Unless you take really hard classes, it isn’t that hard at all. Of course, your interpretation of whats difficult may vary from ours, so take that as you will.</p>
<p>It depends…are your grades low because you are socializing more than studying? Or did you try really hard and still only got a 3.0? Your classes will gradually become more difficult and require more time and work. You need to be willing to step up to the plate.</p>
<p>If you are a freshman with not many credit hours then of course it is mathematically possible to move from a 3.0 to a 3.5. The more credit hours you have, the harder it is to increase your GPA. Once you have 60 credit hours it it difficult, once you have 100 credit hours it is difficult if not impossible to raise it significantly, unless you end up taking 200 credit hours. </p>
<p>Sometimes it is better to do grade forgiveness if your college offers that option, it is an easier way of increasing your GPA when you have a lot of credits. Let’s say I have 100 credits, my freshman year I goofed off and got an F in a class. In some colleges they do grade forgiveness and if you re-take that class and get at least a C, the F is removed from the GPA calculation and the new grade is calculated instead. There is still a record of your initial grade on a transcript, and depending on the grad school you apply to later if you do, they might calculate the initial grade and the new one.</p>
<p>I did spend time studying, probably somewhere between 5-20 hours (yes i know it’s a big range) doing 6 practice exams and reviewing the book.
I do still socialize though, and I feel like I have a little too much.
I didn’t follow the studying routine that I wanted to follow, but hopefully I do follow it the rest of the semester and my undergraduate career.</p>
<p>It is up to you , and YOU alone can determine the outcome . Make some new friends who like to study .</p>
<p>I got a 3.0 my first semester and now I have a 3.8. But then again, I’m good at math and was able to calculate stuff like this.</p>