<p>hi. i'm a 2nd year, and cumulative my gpa is around a 2.6. Yeah, it sucks. Fall quarter (last quarter), i got a 3.75. </p>
<p>I was just wondering if there's anyone out there who went through the same thing...and how tough is it to pull a 2.6 up to at least a 3.0? or higher...</p>
<p>It is very tough.</p>
<p>ummmm, if you study your butt off and try hard maybe not so hard</p>
<p>hey,
dont know abt yur system of grading but i am having a gpa of 5.3/10 (~60.3%). I am doing my engineering from one of the private college in India. acc. to the grading system here a gpa of 6.5 and less considered to be a bad one...I want to know if I have to apply to US varsities then this will going to create a problem for me or not 'cause in high school i too scored very less marks...</p>
<p>I am in my last semester (just started), and wanna know that how can I improve to get atleast a 6/10. can u tell me some sort of helping guide n all....</p>
<p>bye</p>
<p>It really is that tough to pull up a low GPA? That just ain't fair! Its so easy for your GPA to plummet but so hard to raise it!? I'm ticked off now.</p>
<p>It's just a simple average...</p>
<p>hmm...</p>
<p>Do grades really reflects ur sharpness, ur attitude or ur potential n all kinda stuff????</p>
<p>I think if u r having a gpa of 3.0 or less and less than 6.5/10 (in my case), that doesnt mean that we r good for nothng...and its just matter of luck that u r not gettin' a gpa of 3.7/4 or 7.5/10 inspite putting lot of hard work....And in both the cases one is eligible for campus recruitments and there one can show his/her potential.</p>
<p>It's always harder to bring up a GPA than to bring it down first because it's easier to do less work than to do a lot of work and second because it's you are always trying to bring it up after it has gone down (there are more grades to be taken into the average so each new high grade has less of an effect than the low grade had the previous semester).</p>
<p>I'm kindof in the same predicament...It'll depend on how many classes you had a C or lower in...Assuming you didn't get lower than a C in anything, you'll need the same amount or more of As to counter the C to bring it up to a 3.0 or higher... for example...</p>
<p>This is a close estimate of my grades...</p>
<p>EXAMPLE: These the GPAs for each class (and the number of credits its worth)</p>
<p>3.3 (3)
2.7 (3)
2.0 (3)
2.0 (3)
2.0 (1)
4.0 (1)</p>
<p>to make that A 3.0, I'll need an A in at least 2 classes that are 3 credit hours each...</p>
<p>I don't know if that made any sense to you at all, but hopefully it'll help...Mostly, the difficulty of pulling up a GPA depends on the number of classes taken so far...If you're in the first semester of your second year, you're probably going to need to make at least A/B+ in all of your classes for your junior and senior year...</p>
<p>If you got 30 credits (one year) at a 2.6, you need to get 16 credits (just over a semester or so) at a 3.75 to get a 3.0. That means that, based on your information, you should be at about a 3.0 now, but I am unsure about how many credits all of this involves.</p>
<p>it depends on your school</p>
<p>My first semester, I was sick and got a 2.2 gpa, my 2nd semester, I wasent and was used to college. In my 5 classes I got a 3.4 gpa. I transfered from that school to my current school and there was no basis between the 2.2 and the 3.4. if I got a 4.0 the next term, my gpa would have been 4.0.</p>
<p>maybe take classes you know would be easy so as to have them be factored into your gpa?</p>
<p>Wouldn't it look bad to take easy classes to get higher gpa though?</p>
<p>It is very hard to bring up a low gpa.
My school allows you to repeat F's and they only count the new grade in your new gpa. Any other repeats and both grades are factored in, but you can usually get a much better grade the second time around. I would take all easy classes, as long as you can get credit for graduation. Just don't take easy classes for the sake of your gpa, unless you can afford to spend more money and more time at school.</p>
<p>It doesnt really look bad to take a lot of easy classes as long as you're doing your requirements. You've really just gotta work as hard as you can to consistently make A's in classes. It's possible because people DO make 4.0's. One thing you should try to do is find out which professors end up giving out more A's than others, these are good people to take. </p>
<p>Also. I dont think there's much of an excuse to fail a course, you should know how well or how bad you're doing. If you're doing bad you should drop the course. The fact of the matter is that this college GPA will have an effect on getting into grad schools, employment shortly after college, etc. </p>
<p>Case in Point --> I ended up with a strike on my financial aid record because I dropped my calculus course. The fact of the matter was that I'd probably make a C and it would have been my fault for not keeping up with the work and working consistently. At my school all the calculus work is the same year after year. The numbers are just always slightly changed on problem sets, etc. I decided i'd drop and then read up on calc over winter break and work much harder in the spring.</p>
<p>I was only taking 13 hrs so when I dropped calc I dropped down to only 9 hrs (part time student) but I had realized that getting that C would have hurt my GPA enough to possibly screw my chances at internally transferring to the business school here. All in all, it was the right decision to make.</p>
<p>Some things at my school are harder to take here than elsewhere. People generally regard the history courses, calculus, and a few other courses as being pretty difficult. These courses are usually 'basics' for whatever degree you're getting. What many people do is take them at a CC where its generally easier to make better grades, that way they get some tough basics out of their way. This way you don't go to your university and make bad grades on these basics and hurt your GPA.</p>
<p>I'm so ticked off that all the courses I've taken in community college were As, whereas I did very poorly on my courses at my university and they won't factor in the GPA for my community college courses, so my GPA is absymally low at my university.....</p>
<p>This just isn't fair, college is a real friggin *****.</p>
<p>It certainly can be done ... many moons ago I had a 2.55 after my sophmore year and graduated with a 2.98. To do that I had about a 3.5 for my last 2 years (while taking much harder classes) ... in my case I needed to develop much better studying habits and mature A LOT to improve my grades. If someone already has great study habits and is working very hard (and smart) it will be tough to make a big jump in their grades typically.</p>
<p>Well, sorry if this is a dumb question, but whats the point of taking community college courses if when they transfer to your university, they don't count towards your GPA? Thats really stupid if you ask me. Its like collegs like to give you a low gpa....</p>
<p>if it's your first year, it's relatively easy to bring up a low gpa. but if its later on in your education, it's very hard (if not impossible) to signifiantly change it.</p>
<p>Really? Then thats great news, because this first semester, I was suffering from extreme depression and suicidal feelings and actually I still am, though less than before. Sigh, college is so freaking stressful, I must be the only one who still misses high school.....</p>