To whomever is reading this, hello!
Please bare with me as I am struggling BIG time and it’s stressing me out beyond belief.
I’ll start off by mentioning that I am an international student who currently attends a college within the LACCD, with this semester done, I can without a doubt say that i’ve messed up a lot. I applied for a transfer to a closer college due to the fact that the one I spent a year in is an hour+ away from where I live, so that was a major factor of why I was messing up, but not entirely. I was placed in Pre-Algebra and i’m failing it FOR THE SECOND TIME! I promise you the material is super easy but I just blank out during tests!! it pisses me off so bad, I stay up, work really hard and end up with a D. I scheduled to take the assessment again so that i’d hopefully be placed in a higher ranking math course instead of repeating the same one and ending up with a D. So my question to you readers, is with a current GPA of 2.4, or a 2.6 (without the none credit math course) can I get to a 3.0+ in a year? I am beyond certain that I will surpass my classes at this new college seeing that it’s literally 7 minutes away from where I live and it gives me the option of going back and forth easily without worrying about the damn 405 haha. Please dont make me feel worse about it, i’m merely looking for reassurance, thank you.
That would be a good math problem for you to solve yourself! If you had another year (say 30 credits) of straight As, what would your GPA be?
I would love to have a handy mental GPA calculator but the whole concept confuses me as it is seeing that I never encountered the GPA grading system until I moved here, so would you mind helping out? haha, thank you for replying!
@AbdullahD GPA is simply the weighted average of your grades where the “weights” are the number of units/credits in each course. The most common GPA scale is the 4.0 scale (A=4, B=3, etc.) which I assume you’re using. But as b@r!um said, determining whether you can achieve a 3.0+ in a year given your current grades/classes is a simple math question.
We can also do the math for you, but you’ll have to tell us how many credits went into your 2.4 GPA and how many credits you expect to take next year.
I took a total of 36 units in the past year which resulted in the 2.4 (2.6 w/o the unaccredited math course) and i’m expecting to take at least 39 more within the next year.
@AbdullahD assuming a 2.4 GPA with 36 units (not including the math course), you would need approximately a 3.6 GPA next year. Technically if you take more than 39 units next year, the minimum GPA needed for a 3.0 cumulative will decrease, but you will also have a heavier workload.