<p>I do not have the best stats, I have just completed my third year of college. However I'm technically still considered a sophomore in terms of credits. I transferred into michigan state university, after my first year at a community college. I fooled around my first semester and did not try at all, ended up failing 3 classes, and getting a D in one, ending up on academic probation. for my junior year. I only took 2 classes for the fall semester, and 3 for my spring semester. Horrible mistake, I know. I'm planning to stay an extra year to complete my degree in financial economics. My cumulative gpa is 1.8, my major gpa is a 3.5. I have about 62 credits.</p>
<p>Given that I do well from here on out, and bring my gpa up at least to a 3.0 and try to gain some internship experience, will I be able to land some sort of entry level position after graduation?</p>
<p>I know, but I’m still going to try to find some sort of work experience. The career development center says it can help me find some internships. </p>
<p>But even If I can’t find an internship, what can I do to improve my employment chances after graduation?</p>
<p>I’m guessing math wasn’t your Strong suit? You don’t have a chance at a 3.0, let alone at a strong GPA. If you got a 4.0 for the next 60 credits, your GPA would still be about a 2.8. You would have to have a 4.0 for a full five semesters for your overall GPA to be over a 3.0. Face it, all hope is lost.</p>
<p>Best bet would be transfer to a CC to pull your GPA back up and become more mature. Transfer to another university and work hard not to screw up. College can be fun but you are there for an education, not how much beer you can drink in one night.</p>
<p>Don’t take this the wrong way, but this advice is terrible. He’s completed 62 credits and you want him to spend 2 years in CC taking the same pre-requisites with less depth ? If he took your advice, you’d be setting him up to graduate at 24-25 with a weak GPA and a business major. He needs 2-3 years of solid, miserable perfection to attain a “respectable” GPA. Why are you so cruel?</p>
<p>whistleblower, it seems like you are right. i feel very hopeless. </p>
<p>i do plan on stay an extra year to boost my gpa up. planning on taking summer classes and winter courses as well. but do you really think all hope is lost, or are you just trying to discourage me from even trying?</p>
<p>brahski, I am simply advising against you spending two years in ignominy trying to cancel out your academic transgressions with nothing but a tentative change in attitude/outlook to spur you. If, hypothetically, you were for some reason absolutely certain that you could pull off a solid 3 years of 4.0-ness without anything so much as an A- to spoil the run of perfection, then the 3.0 you achieved would raise your chance of getting an internship from 0% to about 5%. Does this sound like a good idea to you? If you just have it in your head that you want to be a professional student, then nothing is stopping you from finishing the next 60 credits in 3 semesters or so and then getting yourself a second bachelors’ in something that interests you, with a clean slate instead of a soiled one with an unspeakably low GPA that would make a female HR worker cringe and then cackle at the sight of it on your resume. After all, she earned a 3.1 in psychology and she never studied (or took a single math class, or class that required reading), so anyone with worse than that is a Fool.</p>
<p>FYI. My friend went through exactly the same thing you are and he went into plumbing. 2 years later he has a thriving business making a LOT of money.</p>
<p>His benefit…he knew when to stop trying college.</p>
<p>I would get a 3.7 for the last two years of my college life and put that on my resume. However, most people that have slacked so long do not typically just go 180 degrees instantly. Consider quitting college, you can still make big bucks. I’m a firm believer that education is overrated.</p>