<p>Well, I don’t think we can make a blanket statement regarding how a 2.8 GPA student would do, because there are all sorts of reasons why that student has that grade.</p>
<p>Just as some of the pevious posters said, some kids do better in college and some of us, who did well in High School, didn’t get as high a GPA in college. There is certainly a potential for a less than 4.0 student to get ‘good’ grades in their college major, because hopefully it is a subject they have a passion and aptitude for. The high school math may have been a struggle for the creative writing major (and vice versa).</p>
<p>But I have to agree with the previous poster: I think the best predictor of not flunking out of college (and I certainly don’t think a 2.8 GPA is ‘flunking out’!) is TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS. And a big part of that is having the habit of doing the work, whether that means reading 100 pages/week for Psych 100 or doing your math homework every night in high school.</p>
<p>In 9th grade, my daughter’s math teacher didn’t grade the homework or quizzes of the students. Guess which kids ended up with the A’s in that class? The ones who put in the effort and did the homework anyway. </p>
<p>There will always be kids who have huge imaginations and can write wonderful essays but who have a hard time memorizing all the presidents for U.S. History. There wil always be kids who do just enough to ‘get by’ and 3 tests/semester will leave little room for error. And even if our bright kids go to a nothing special state university, like I did, they will be in a bigger pond, swimming with some kids who flunk out of most classes and ones whose amazing brain power simply blows the curve out of the water every time.</p>