<p>If you are clever with your class selection you can end up doing less than half an hour of work a night. Of course you will eventually have to take higher level major courses.</p>
<p>I will put it this way. It depends on a ton of variables. When I was a freshman I came into college trying to be a history ed teacher- I was pulling 3.7s 3.8s like it was my job. I thought it was too easy and I didn’t want to teach anymore so I went into marketing. It is much harder- I have a 3.25 but I am consistently working my butt off to keep that GPA. Conversely, if you put in effort- you will be fine. Just study regularly- you wont be able to copy homework 5 minutes before class- if you get caught copying its a 0 and you get told to knock it off. Do it in college- its plagiarism, you fail the course and get thrown out of the school. I got yelled at because I copied and pasted a definition off dictionary.com and didn’t cite the source. You want to get a degree that you can be successful with- it is supposed to be challenging- don’t sweat grade replacing a few classes. It happens. You work hard do your job and you will be fine. You cant come into college thinking you can skate through smoking dope/drinking 6 days a week. You will find that people will start cutting you off if you do. My friend from freshman year came from a country public school (got a 3.3 without trying) broke up with a HS GF in college and straight threw his life away after. Smoked weed and got addicted to cocaine- pulled a .4 gpa and is now in Tempe in Rehab at 20. You have to have good skills- and study habits. Its honestly not that hard as long as you put in effort to talk to your teachers and pass. Cs and Bs happen- it is VERY hard to get an A in college. You have to average an A on all your tests. College has 4 exams participation and a final. You have a bad day every now and than- things happen
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<p>I have a 74 in the class. Case in point. One grade will shoot you in the foot. If I had been in HS I probably could have done a redo on the test. No such thing in college.</p>
<p>Basically…when you come to college no one cares about your self-esteem. It doesn’t matter how well you did in high school, you are on new grounds. </p>
<p>C’s and B’s here are not hard to get if you try hard. Sometimes people with natural aptitude for subjects will get these grades…it is pretty much guaranteed though that anyone who earned an A here was a hard worker if it’s in a STEM subject. Even if you’re trying your hardest and you’re pulling a C in one of the tough STEM classes here, that sucks if you’re trying to get into graduate school. If you’re hitting walls, you either find a way to knock them down, fail to do so, or just give up completely and switch majors. </p>
<p>I totally put my heart and soul into a problem set last week…I got a 55 on it. Although I cursed at this grade because it took me from a B to a C in the class overall, there’s nothing I can do about it other than do better on the next one and pray I kill the midterm.</p>
<p>Anything else at my college other than STEM it’s pretty easy to get an A and rarely do people ever get C’s if they did their work. C’s and below are most often a result of not doing anything or barely enough to pass. </p>
<p>C’s are terrible for your transcript. It will make you feel like crap when some questionable programs are posting higher average GPA’s than yours for graduate school.</p>
<p>I agree that there’s a lot more pressure in college. Also, your professors won’t always recognize it. Sometimes they do and can see that you truly care about their subject, but that alone won’t get you through it. </p>
<p>I’m not a STEM major, but I do a lot of work in my writing and rhetoric and French classes. I practice my French every day to improve and do well, and I scramble to keep up with my WRT readings and assignments. </p>
<p>No matter how hard I try and how advanced my writing is, I can never get more than a 9.5/10 on a French composition. I seriously go all out and sometimes spend hours writing a 750-word paper, but my professor never gives 10s (to anyone; I’ve checked). ONCE I got a 9.75, and I felt so incredibly special. </p>
<p>My professor knows I work hard and knows that I’m serious about the subject, but that’s just not enough. I’ve gotta be BRILLIANT to earn my 10. I won’t get a 4.0, but I’ll be proud of what I get because I’m truly trying my best. </p>
<p>Similarly, sometimes professors grade you on an individual basis. I have a classmate who really struggles with French but who scores 8s and 9s on her writings. If you compare her 9 and my 9.5, they’re miles apart, but her 9 is pretty good for what she can do. I’m not saying this is a good thing to do, but I do see it happen a lot.</p>
<p>I actually found college to be easier than high school because I got to take classes whenever I wanted to. For example, instead of 8-3 at school, I scheduled most of my classes so that I would have 1-5 hour breaks before the next one started. It allowed me to recharge (or even study) before a new class started.</p>