<p>I'll be attending Michigan State University next year, but my parents are worried that I might not get a 3.0 GPA in college and won't get into Eli Broad Business School (need 3.5 GPA for it) junior year for accounting.</p>
<p>My dad wants me to get evaluated for a learning disability in college, but my mom doesn't really want me to get one too soon. But just yesterday she said I might be dyslexic when she was look at my accounting homework (I switched the numbers ex: instead of 289 I wrote 298)</p>
<p>I'm very hardworking, but I had to work 200% more than my peers. I achieved a 3.6 GPA with honors classes. </p>
<p>I want to get a 3.5 GPA at MSU, but my parents are extremely worried. Mainly because my brother attends University of Michigan and he only has a 2.4 ish in Engineering (he's a junior). My parents think I'm going to fail because my brother is failing college. But I'm a lot more hardworking and have better study habits than my brother.</p>
<p>How do you get a 3.5 GPA in college?</p>
<p>Is the grading similar at MSU with U of M. Compare a MSU degree in accounting GPA vs U of M degree in business. Help!</p>
<p>I am an accountant, and transposing numbers is a very common event for me. You will learn tricks to find them (div by 9, etc). Unless you have other learning problems, I would not be concerned about dyslexia. </p>
<p>Sadly, I can’t tell you anything about MSU, but if you work hard and enjoy what you do, success will come. </p>
<p>Good luck to you!</p>
<p>How is his failing related to you? The question is that if he has been work hard or not. Although college is very competitive, you work hard enough you will succeed. Remember that college is not like high school, you do not have many chances to get “extra credits”, so you have to have self-motivated. You said you have to work 200% more than your peers, you can not compare that way, I have a son in high school, I know what an average high kid does. MSU has great support services, they have free math tutor service for everyone. I am sure they have tutor services for other subjects. Do not be shy, if you have difficulties, get help.</p>
<p>How often do you mix up the numbers? I so that somewhat often when I’m constantly writing math equations but I highly doubt it’s dyslexia, and as long as you check your work it’s easy to catch.</p>
<p>Aside from that, every student varies with how much they need to put in. I’d say as long as you go to class, read and do the assigned h/w (even if it won’t be graded), and set 1-2 hours a night to study you will be fine. It seems simple but you’d be suprised how Many people don’t do this.</p>
<p>It’s not uncommon for engineers, especially if they have bad study habits, to get a 2.4 </p>
<p>Like others have said, you get out of college what you put into it. If you are organized, you do the work that’s assigned to you, and you study, you will do pretty well. If you’re really struggling, try to set up a study group so that you can work wtih others on your homework and problem sets (if this is allowed. check with your prof that it’s okay to do work in groups. Otherwise just study together). Other people can help check your work and make sure you didn’t transpose.</p>
<p>to get a 3.5 you need to get half A’s and half B’s.</p>
<p>Time management, do work the day it is assigned</p>
<p>go to class everytime, do all the homework, get A’s in the easy A classes, and you will be right up there</p>
<p>I go to Michigan state. Admittedly, University of Michigan classes as a whole are harder than Michigan State classes from what I’ve heard from several friends. However, there are many difficult programs at Michigan State including the residential colleges and the business college where classes can be just as challenging. I don’t know anyone in the UofM business program in particular but I’d say that UofM might be a bit more challenging (although not by much). The Michigan state accounting program is probably the hardest of all the broad college majors. I took ACC 201 and for me, a non-business major I thought it was probably the most challenging class I’ve had in terms of subject matter (although the teacher was really great and a fair grader). I ended up with a 3.0 but that was with crappy study habits. However if you read your textbook, do your homework early and go to help room accounting isn’t that difficult. </p>
<p>Overall though, especially through the 1st and 2nd years at state you are mostly going to be taking prerequisites and general ed courses. The ISS, WRAs, ISP/ISB and IAH classes (your general ed. integrative course requirements) are all pretty easy unless you get a bad prof (look professors up at allmsu.com to check their ratings before you sign up for classes) and if you attend your classes, pay attention, study and don’t get wasted every other night at college, you’ll be fine. Just FYI, the Michigan State grading scale is on a 4.0, 3.5, 3.0 etc. basis (not the standard A, B, C scale)</p>
<p>Alright, from a kid who went from CC, and 2 other universities (mainly costs) the curriculum is essentially the same in all schools, saying one school is harder than the other is bs.</p>
<p>^^^i think you have a very limited scope of perception. Because from my experience, colleges do vary significantly in their course-load. University of Alaska Anchorage classes = easiest classes I’ve ever taken in my life. Michigan State University classes = not the same at all. It really depends on a school’s depth of program and faculty among other factors. As much as I’d like to argue that Michigan state has the same curriculum difficulty as Michigan, that is simply not true as a whole. Ask any student that is familiar with schools in Michigan and they’ll argue the same way…</p>
<p>put it like this for alll decent schools, the curriculum will be essentially the same just like @marc said</p>
<p>falala- all universities get accreditation by having strict policies on what they must go through to graduate. In other words, all physics classes will generally teach the same thing, all math classes will teach generally the same thing</p>
<p>the homework and the way of it being taught my be different, but essentially things dont change.</p>
<p>That all colleges have to be accredited means nothing. Rigorous, proof-based calculus is much harder than “an integral is the area under a curve”, but both types of courses can easily meet accreditation requirements.</p>
<p>and you can do both types in all universities…</p>
<p>Switching two numbers does NOT mean you have a learning disability. Doing it 100 times over the course of a semester does not mean you have a learning disability. It means you need to be more careful. Your dad wants to give you an advantage over other kids, which is reasonable from his/your point of view.</p>
<p>Second, there is a large difference between UMich Ross and MSU Broad. One is one of the top few undergrad business degrees around, the other is something more in the range of 30th-50th. One attracts the best students from all over the country and world, the other attracts good students from around Michigan. </p>
<p>Also, the average GPA at UMich engineering is a 2.9, and the average ACT of admitted students is a 31. I imagine the average GPA is going to be a couple tenths of a point higher at MSU, and the average ACT a few points lower. Your brother’s GPA is better than it may seem (while it’s not good… But it’ll get him a job). </p>
<p>My comparison is not to say MSU is a bad school or anything like that. It’s a good school. But they’re really not going to be of the same caliber for a BBA. Not even close.</p>
<p>UWisc-Madison and UIUC, UIC, and Iowa State all have engineering programs, they all have the same curriculum, why are some rated better than the others? Simply because of prestige. The top students go to schools with other top students. That, along with funding sends students with high potential to those schools and in turn puts out a “better” product. Is the courses still the same? yes, are the students different? yes, so its the students that pushes the schools product, not the other way around.</p>
<p>95% GPA management, 5% studying.</p>
<p>Once you stack your entire schedule with easy classes, it’s a piece of cake. You’ve pretty much won the battle.</p>
<p>Rules of GPA management:
- Don’t take classes given by profs that are hard graders. EVER.
- Don’t take classes given by profs that give you a lot of work. EVER.
- Rinse and repeat 1 and 2.
- Thou shalt never violate the above rules.
- If thou art tempted to violate one of the above rules, thou shall refer to rule 4.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you can qualify for extra exam time because of your “disability”, that will help too. Besides, accounting is easy.</p>
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<p>No. There are no calculus courses at, say, Boise State that are even close in difficulty to those at MIT or Caltech. The only way you could possibly conclude that all schools offer courses that are about the same difficulty is by knowing nothing about colleges you did not attend.</p>
<p>oh wow bravo, awesome logic, considering</p>
<p><a href=“http://mit.edu/8.02t/www/Calendar2010Spring.pdf[/url]”>http://mit.edu/8.02t/www/Calendar2010Spring.pdf</a> - hmmm, seems like exactly the things im learning </p>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/4209DE12-E9B4-484B-B76F-5668C6CC7FBA/0/lecture_4.pdf[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/4209DE12-E9B4-484B-B76F-5668C6CC7FBA/0/lecture_4.pdf</a>
their lecture notes seems really familiar, even doable.</p>
<p>oh ya and lastly
[MIT</a> Course Catalog: Course 10](<a href=“Welcome! < MIT”>Welcome! < MIT)</p>
<p>same exact courses i am following to graduate</p>
<p>maybe its because the students overall that go there already took ap classes to pass the calculus courses so in turn takes calculus theory ? MIT does have regular calculus classes, and not everyone takes the theory classes</p>
<p>so as you can see, the coursework is not so different after all.</p>