<p>I'm extremely down right now. I was a mainly A with a few B's student in high school with not putting a huge amount of effort into my work. My high school was good and is well regarded, but things were easy at times I suppose.</p>
<p>I'm not happy with the college I'm at. I don't think I made the right choice and I want to transfer. I don't have the money or ECs to get into anywhere elite or high up there. I suppose I'm looking mainly at the state flagship.</p>
<p>I scored a 31 on my ACT and I think I test well. This is a lot of background info. Anyways onto the main point of the thread:</p>
<p>I receive a B- for one of my classes. I am SO MAD at myself for letting this happen. I have been continuing my semi-lazy habits in college. This is very BAD and I have let myself due to a bit of depression but also the fact that the college is not challenging for me. (ACT scores 21-28). Anyways I procrastinated so much in this class and just didn't even read up and study that the the midterm dug me into a hole and I couldn't get out of it. I even DROPPED FROM A B to B- AFTER THE FINAL EXAM! I would have been ok with a B - was hoping for an A - but now a B-...That counts as a 2.7 for my GPA but I feel like the bigger problem is that I have a B- in one of my first classes. So far after one trimester my cumulative GPA is 3.65. I did fairly well in my other classes. </p>
<p>I think I want to transfer and I am bummed that I have let this happen to myself and I have a B- on my record now. I really would have liked to stay B and above throughout college. This is basically a C to me and I have never gotten a C. I take complete responsibility for what has happened, and this made me realize I need to STUDY and make sure I get all A's or as best I can the rest of the school year.</p>
<p>I just need the straight up truth. How bad is having this 2.7 value B- grade? Is this going to impact my chances to transfer? Is it going to hurt in the job hunt? And is it going to be unfavorable to employers? There's a chance this class is one that will be part of my major. I just can't believe I let myself start out like this. I'm really ashamed</p>
<p>I'm not even the typical kid who stresses over grades and cries about numbers. I am not the guy who is freaking out if I don't have a 4.0/4.0. But this is alarming to me because I know I should not have gotten a B- in a class at this university. What's done is done, but can anyone tell me how much damage I've done to myself? I don't need any sugarcoating.</p>
<p>I knew I’d get this type of response. I’m not snobby at all. I am not knocking the college, I just know that I made a poor decision and should have chosen a place more suited to my academic level. And feel free to comment “but you couldn’t even get an A”. I recognize that my laziness really harmed me with this class.</p>
<p>Yes I know it’s not the end of the world. It’s also not the best thing in the world to start off freshman year with a 2.7 value in a class. Under 3.0 in anything seems pretty bad in my opinion. Perhaps I’m holding myself to a higher standard because I believe I should be getting a 3.75+ GPA at this school, at least for my freshman year which consists of mainly gen eds. But, I know a GPA under 3.0 is not good, so I feel that getting any grade below that mark is poor.</p>
<p>So, is this B- going to hurt me in regards to transferring, jobs, future in general?</p>
<p>You clearly don’t like me so I’d appreciate it if you would simply ignore me and not contribute any sarcastic remarks to a serious question I am posing.</p>
<p>Forget about that grade and work on higher grades next trimester. If you pull off higher grades later on, it’ll make that B- less important than it seems. You’re a freshman in college, so you’ve got PLENTY of time to muddle that B- with better grades. And at least it isn’t a C or a D. I think those would really hurt. B- in your very first trimester? It’ll probably be looked over, if at all.
I don’t think employers or grad school usually look at individual grades, I think overall GPA (and also GPA for science classes in my situation of wanting to apply for vet school) is what matters. </p>
<p>You’ll get over the shock once you progress into your major.</p>
<p>I don’t know anyone with a GPA higher than a 3.2 in engineering. I just got a test back yesterday and the class average on last week’s test was a 44%. </p>
<p>Your ACT score doesn’t really mean anything once you’re in college. It’s not a ****ing contest. A friend at NMT had a 31 ACT score and ended up with a 2.9 GPA through engineering. That is not from a lack of trying either.</p>
<p>If it’s just general education classes and you want to maintain a high GPA, you need to pick your professors that increase your chances of that happening. When I was taking my general education classes I tried to avoid as many unnecessary hurdles as possible by visiting websites that gave professors refers like ratemyprofessors or *******. Try and find a balance between learning and easiness from a teacher if you can so you don’t get bored. </p>
<p>You can do better, I’m sure. Just try your hardest and let everything in your work reflect that from now on. Your absolute hardest. 70% of my class must receive 100 on the final to pass that is worth 40% of our grade. I don’t think anyone is going to be slacking off for the next two weeks. It is highly unrealistic but unfortunately the only way to pass and my professor could not care less who passes.</p>
<p>First of all, you need to stop obsessing on one grade in one class, and look at the bigger picture. Your overall GPA after just one trimester is fine and you will improve it. Does your school have an honors program? Most Universities do these days. Are you in it? If not, why not? And don’t kid yourself, every school has people in it who probably aren’t interested in studying all the time, and every school has students there who are brilliant and excelling. It’s all what you do with the school you are at. Getting involved, getting to know professors, pushing yourself to take hard classes that may not earn A’s but will really push you to learn. Freshman courses can be very easy, or they can be shockingly difficult. You really haven’t been at the school long enough to take a wide enough number of courses to truly judge the level of difficulty yet. I don’t want to sound rude, but an ACT of 21-28 isn’t that stunning, so it’s not apparent that you are a genius at a school for just the “Common” student.
College is about so much more than grades and GPA - maybe your focus is on the wrong things and it isn’t helping you.</p>
<p>I’m not quite sure if this is a joke or real…</p>
<p>Your obsession with your ACT score after you are already in college is kind of telling with the high-school mentality you are in right now. I currently attend a regional university (with standards probably significantly lower than yours), and the students who struggle the most are students who think they are ‘too good’ for the school they are at. If you do test as well as you say you do and you are obviously so much better than other students at your school (based on a high-school standardized test score), you can leverage that past some high-school admissions test and use it to create opportunities for yourself. You can have the most amazing opportunities at smaller schools, ones you wouldn’t get elsewhere. Yes, maybe you’ll transfer in the end, but take the opportunity and time while you are at where you are to make connections with your professors and take advantage of all of the leadership opportunites at your school. Also, take the opportunity to learn from the students around you-- you’d be surprsied at what you can learn.</p>
<p>That being said, you are insane if you think a B- is going to ruin your entire future… or something else equally ridiculous, and you need a serious reality check. You have a 3.65 GPA. In the grand scheme of the world, nothing fell apart. Yes, you got a B-. But perhaps, most importantly, you learned what every freshman learns: in college, you have to work for it. Almost everybody struggles their first semester or trimester, because the expectations of how and where the learning takes place is different. Hopefully, you’ve learned that now-- so if you were really that upset with yourself, you’ll learn from your mistakes.</p>
<p>Seriously though, you sound like you need to move on past high school and get over yourself. Once you are in college, no matter where you are at, nobody cares about what your high-school ACT scores was-- the ACT isn’t a measure of anything except how you did on the ACT. Take a reality check, please. I can’t imagine you surviving much longer if you live in that mentality.</p>
<p>I’m in engineering at your school, and I have a 3.6
I’ve had plenty of B- and C’s though, but it’s compensated by having an A in every general ed class that I’ve taken.</p>
