<p>I'm going to need a 3.0 to get into the program I want. I have until junior year to get a 3.0. I'm going to go to an average state school. How difficult is it, if I work hard, to get a 3.0. I'm an average student with a 3.6 high school GPA.</p>
<p>A 3.0 isn’t difficult at all if you have a good work ethic. If you made a 3.6 in high school, you should probably be fine.</p>
<p>It depends on your major as well. It’s difficult in engineering.</p>
<p>Depends on your major.</p>
<p>I’m talking about in the entry level core requirement classes</p>
<p>Then it depends on your school. Generally speaking, not hard at all.</p>
<p>One of the biggest predictors of success is also the most boring: do you go to class regularly, read the assignments, spend time outside of class reviewing concepts, go to the prof’s office hours to clarify things you’re not sure about? Even for very difficult classes or majors, these kinds of activities often result in stronger achievement than relying on one’s native intelligence.</p>
<p>Getting a 3.0 is not hard. At all. No matter what college you’re in. </p>
<p>However, you may want to aim a little higher.</p>
<p>Study as much as you can and aim for that 4.0. When you fail, you will have that 3.0 you really want. :D</p>
<p>I don’t even think you need a good work ethic to get a 3.0</p>
<p>You’ll be fine - I work 50+ hours a week, have an internship, do clubs and have a 2.9 because of my lack of time, so getting a 3.0 if you have a normal person’s schedule should be easy.</p>
<p>Do profs give A’s? I mean in some classes, say an English class, I here profs don’t give A’s on papers.</p>
<p>It depends completely on the professor that you have. I have only ever had 1 professor who told us on the first day that he absolutely does not give A’s at all, no matter how good you are, because he doesn’t feel that he can teach us everything in one semester (ironically a photography professor…who would have thought?). I found it to be a lame reason, and no one in the class did get above a B+. </p>
<p>I’ve gotten A’s on English papers. However, I had one English prof who was tricky. He failed almost all of the students on all of their papers, but then would award us with A’s and B’s as a final grade. Why? Because even though the writing needed a lot of work, as long as you showed progress throughout the semester, he felt you deserved an A, B, etc. depending on the amount of progress you made.</p>
<p>How big of a difference is it between high school level and freshmen college level grading?</p>
<p>Depends on the school and major.</p>
<p>For example the average GPA at Michigan’s College of Engineering is like a 2.9, and its a 3 something in LSA.</p>
<p>Michigan engineering (from what I read) also has a lowwer average GPA than some other similar engineering programs (I think it was Wisconsin in this example)</p>
<p>I just transferred to FSU when I was at another school I had a 3.4. High School I have a 3.0 I dont see myself getting a 3.0 here more in the 2.75-3.0 range</p>
<p>I’m talking about just average frehmen classes at an average school</p>
<p>It’s not that hard, but it’s hard getting out 3.0-3.2 range.</p>
<p>Teachers don’t like to give A’s. It’s really annoying. I don’t want to have kiss ass to get an A. Just hand in everything on time and do well on tests.</p>
<p>That didn’t make sense. You just said it’s not that hard but it is hard?</p>
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<p>This is either sarcasm or the reason why our education system sucks. OK, no “the” reason, but “a” reason</p>