<p>About to start college and my major requires a 3.0 in order to go to grad school (have to). </p>
<p>So how hard is it to get maintain a 3.0 in college?</p>
<p>Not hard at all if you are responsible about managing work and play. College academics really aren’t difficult. It is a measure of discipline and attention more than anything.</p>
<p>it depends on the class. Some are hard to the point were you are lucky for a C whilst others are easy.</p>
<p>your question is really subjective. it definitely depends on the college/major… i disagree w/ post 2 that “college academics really aren’t difficult.” imo, college academics definitely can be very difficult. that being said, just trying to maintain a 3.0 should not be terrible at most schools if you’re willing to work a bit. you probably won’t have to kill yourself but it’ll help to go to class and do basic reading (or at least skimming), do all assignments and be somewhat prepared for tests, especially finals if nothing else. the expected.</p>
<p>Depends on your major. If you’re a liberal arts major, then probably not too difficult. If you’re an engineering or pre-med student, it might be a little more difficult.</p>
<p>Put in 15 hours a week of good studying including homework, as a full time student and you should be able to pull it off. However im sure you’ll be able to pull off better than that because you will get used to it.</p>
<p>3.0 isn’t going to be very difficult with any major.</p>
<p>You do not want anything near a 3.0 if you want to go to a good grad school. 3.0 is not difficult at all with any major as stated above. Getting a 3.7+ GPA will require a bit of effort though.</p>
<p>Depends on the major and the school. A 3.0 in engineering is not too difficult to obtain, but you’d definitely have to work hard for it.</p>
<p>"Put in 15 hours a week of good studying including homework, as a full time student and you should be able to pull it off. However im sure you’ll be able to pull off better than that because you will get used to it. "</p>
<p>depends how smart you are i guess. lol at the above comment. put in like 1-3 hours a week and you should be able to maintain a 3.0. If you are studying 15 hours a week, you should be a 3.5+ or you are doing something wrong. Also you can party a lot and still get a 3.0 if you pick your spots.</p>
<p>My major is Communication of Science and Disorder (aka speech pathology but that’s the technical term for it). So while it’s not as easy as, let’s say a communcations major (no disrespect intended), it’s not as hard as a engineering or pre-med major as someone said earlier. </p>
<p>Thanks for responses, guys.</p>
<p>Depends on the college. Here, it takes a pulse and an 80 IQ to maintain a 3.0.</p>
<p>What Van said. Colleges can differ very significantly in their grading. In some schools you have to study twenty hours a week just to graduate, while in others you can get a 3.0 with no effort at all.</p>
<p>At which college? What major?</p>
<p>That’s the question – it varies, and what a 3.0 stands for differs at each place. For example, if you go to some crappy open-admit college with jaw-dropping grade inflation, you should expect a 3.0 if you put in any effort.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, if you go somewhere without grade inflation with an average GPA of 2.5, maintaining a 3.0 will require a good amount of work as well as ability.</p>
<p>Here, the grades inflate like in Weimar Germany.</p>
<p>If you aim for a 4.0, you will most likely achieve a 3.0+, unless you really are in over your head. Aim for a 3.0, and things may not bode as well.</p>
<p>On a separate note, a 3.0 is not some magical threshold marking the boundary between what grad schools consider good GPAs and bad GPAs. A 3.0 is not going to help your graduate applications; 3.5+ is generally required to make your application competitive (though again, this GPA is quite possible if you aim for a 4.0).</p>
<p>^3.0 could be scholarship threshold.
At my school, with the classes I chose to take (admittedly, some of the “challenging classes” I took for fun), maintaining a B average would require about 30-40 hours/week outside of class. And maintaining an A average would require about the same amount of work (because to get a B, you still had to DO all the work, it just didn’t have to be as high quality work. Still took about as long, though.)</p>