<p>I.) Stay in school, graduate with high statistical likelihood of living in squalor for life</p>
<p>II.) Learn a trade</p>
<p>You capitalized GPA, sounds as though you would be fit for a life in academia.</p>
<p>well it depends on what you’re majoring in…</p>
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<p>No it doesn’t, engineering internships have 3.0 GPA cutoffs and are competitive.</p>
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<p>GPA is not a word.</p>
<p>III.) Quit being so pessimistic.</p>
<p>take the myers briggs test.</p>
<p>It sounds like you’re a HS student obsessed with GPA without realizing it means diddly squat in the real world. In college, the avg class grade is around a B- or C+.</p>
<p>50% of students have less than a 3.0 by default in my classes - if those 50% drop out of college, then the rest of the students will be divided into 50% over 3.0 and 50% less in the next semester, and so on and so forth. No matter what, a sizeable percentage will always be > 3.0 and a certain percentage will always be over. </p>
<p>hahah and a low gpa doesn’t mean “living in squalor”. Stop spending so much time on CC, it rots your brain. Then you’ll get bad grades, and you’re life will consequently be over, oh no! :P</p>
<p>Whistleblower- I know 3 people who just graduated in engineering with gpa’s around 2.5… that all have starting salaries of at least 70,000.</p>
<p>(Mind you, I’m sure there are a ton more who don’t have that).</p>
<p>My point is that it’s not as black and white as you might think.</p>
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<p>If the average grade in college were b-/c+ then the average GPA would be 2.5, which it is not. The average GPA is well over 3.0 in every major possible except engineering, where it’s scarcely below 3.0 if at all. The b-/c+ curve is for difficult, CURVED classes, not for everything.</p>
<p>Secondly, without a 3.0, you will never, ever get an internship. No internship=no job. Ever.</p>
<p>School is a natural selection process.</p>
<p>You failed the natural selection process. You’re lucky the government doesn’t question your “viability” as a citizen.</p>
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<p>I have a Strong GPA. I was inspired to make this thread by another user - a marketing major with a pitiful 2.6 GPA, brought on by his high IQ.</p>
<p>You’re not even telling us when we have to make the life choice. Is this some sort of hypothetical where we get to make the decision before college using privileged information about our final GPA? Or do we have to decide whether to pursue a trade after graduating with a <3.0 GPA?</p>
<p>This poll sucks.</p>
<p>Move to a foreign, third world country and you’ll be treated as royalty for having an education.</p>
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<p>You’re a freshman and are clairvoyant enough to realize that you won’t finish with a strong GPA, or a sophomore, or a junior with a Weak GPA.</p>
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<p>Only I know whether that’s true :). But now everyone knows that you state things definitively when you have no way of knowing if they’re true. </p>
<p>Which should discredit your argument:</p>
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<p>Although any reasonable person would know that’s–well, not the brightest comment. Even if most/all internships require a 3.0, you can’t seriously believe a sub-3.0 GPA student can’t get a job?</p>
<p>"Secondly, without a 3.0, you will never, ever get an internship. No internship=no job. Ever. "</p>
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<li><p>Be careful about using words like “never” and “no”- they’re too extreme. I’m sure there is at least 1 person in this world who has gotten an internship with less than a 3.0, and I’m sure there is at least 1 person who has gotten an engineering job without having done an internship. </p></li>
<li><p>Just because you don’t do an internship doesn’t mean you can’t get a job. It certainly helps but it isn’t necessary. Not having an internship is one less thing on your resume, but you can just make it up elsewhere. </p></li>
<li><p>Instead of crying about all this, go study harder and bring your GPA up. Also, spend more time looking for more internships. You’ll be surprised at what you find.</p></li>
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<p>Whistleblower doesn’t know what he/she’s talking about. </p>
<p>Half my friends doing an internship this summer were never asked their gpa’s.
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny connection, and you’ve got the job.
The lab I’m working in never once asked for my gpa, but I do have > than a 3.0</p>
<p>Johnson, sounds like your friends weren’t in proper-noun majors like Engineering.</p>
<p>… I’m only talking about engineers.</p>