<p>Okay, so l am a Mechanical Engineering major at a state university. In year one and two l went Academic probation because l wasn't doing very well. However, in the last two years my GPA has been above 3.5 every semester. I want to know if l have any chances of getting into grad school. Should l even bother to apply or that academic probation thing in my first two years is an automatic disqualifier ?</p>
<p>Is your cumulative gpa above 3.0?
That is really more important, than your academic probation.</p>
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well … I’m an old geezer but this might help. I never was on academic probation however I did pretty poorly my first years including getting a 2.1 the spring of my sophomore year (just missed probation) … after my soph year I was down to a 2.5 with a downward trend with at least one C+, C, C-, D+, D, and D- (I did manage to avoid an F). Then my last two years I had a 3.6 GPA got my overall average up to 3.0 and ended up going to grad school at Stanford (for engineering) and MIT (for B-school). It can be done … don’t worry about the past … do the best you can moving forward … and things can open up for you if you get your butt in gear!</p>
<p>Heck, I was kicked out of my undergrad* for a cumulative GPA below 2.0, and I still got into a good grad school…</p>
<p>*: I was let back in after a few years and did pretty well.</p>
<p>I didn’t even graduate with 3.0 as an undergrad and was NOT an engineering major and still got in the M.S. Engineering program at U-Wisconsin. Of course, I needed:</p>
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<li>A few years experience</li>
<li>To aim for a part-time/distance program</li>
<li>Had to ace 3 graduate courses</li>
</ul>
<p>So for my poor undergrad GPA, I had to pay with delaying grad school and taking graduate courses with no guarantee of being admitted.</p>
<p>Yes… there is always a price for not doing it “right” the first time…</p>