Having a tough time after tranferring

Transfer Students
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<p>In high school, I had a 3.98 GPA. I went to CC for 2 years, breezed through it, had a 4.0 for 56 hours. I transferred to TAMU and last semester I got a 2.5 (3 B’s and 1 D). And now this semester I have 2 C’s, a B, and a D. I don’t understand why I’m having such a hard time here. I’m not involved in anything that’s taking up my time. I study and study, and the classes I struggle with (like Finance and my Management class that was about law), the more I studied the worse I do. My best grades in those classes were the very first tests. I just don’t understand why I’m barely scraping by. I know I’m smart. Does anyone have any advice?</p>

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<p>University is harder than CC and high school. You didn’t have it hard enough in CC to prepare you I guess.</p>

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<p>If you had an easy time in a CC then it just means you didn’t take any rigorous classes. I was taking EE major pre-reqs and that was a pain, finished them last semester and I’m just finishing up required GE’s needed for transfer. They’re so simple I don’t even need to try (philo, etc). </p>

<p>It’s just upper division courses for ya’ even an English major will have a harder time in upper division (albeit, not by that much). Someone who just went through the IGETC/GE breadth will have a harder time adjusting once they actually get into the thick of it. For instance, STEM majors tend to plateau in the toughness in soph/junior year but in terms of work load they’ve had it since freshman year so they’re used to it</p>

<p>Are you cramming? Try breaking your study schedule into multiple days and throughout the semester instead of the day before the test.</p>