<p>This message is for those who are currently at GS or attended GS, because I've noticed that many of the posts that are about this topic tend to be derisive points of view from teenaged Columbia College students with megalomaniacal personalities. </p>
<p>That being said, here is my question. What are the career opportunities for someone graduating from the School of General Studies? Are there actual biases in the job world for those with a degree from GS? I think to myself how can there be when the tuition and the professors are the same. If anyone out there has actual evidence of bias, would you please post your experience.</p>
<p>Don't GS students tend to come out of Columbia with a significantly lower GPA on average? That's the only thing that can explain some bias, although it wouldn't really be a bias at all.
And previous work experience should give them some advantage over GS students.</p>
<p>s snack, this is exactly the kind of post that further perpetuates a perceived bias. Where can you find specific data with regard to GS students and their significantly lower GPAs? Instead of posting hyperbole, why not post actual information.</p>
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<p>you're only begging for flames when you preface your posts like this</p>
<p>I think you will get the best information from the department that handles recruitment at GS and from talking to GS students close to graduation. Ask to see the list of recruiters who come to campus or post openings with GS. Talk to people in the alumni office as well and look through the class notes in the alumni magazine.</p>
<p>You're competing against everyone else taking the classes. Regardless of whether the overall GPA of GS is higher or lower than CC, ultimately you are not your school, are you? You are your own performance. If you score a 3.7, or a 4.0, or a 4.16, as a GS student, you are outperforming the (vast) majority of both CC and GS students alike, not to mention SEAS. I know people who have gone to Yale Law School or post-grad programs in UChicago, Columbia, or Harvard and other such schools coming out of GS.</p>
<p>What you have to understand is ultimately, it's about how you, personally, do. If you impress a teacher, and do well in your courses overall, no one's going to give a **** if you're GS or CC, because your majors and concentrations are awarded by the individual departments (like Mathematics, Philosophy, Biology, Anthropology, Economics, etc.) which are directly concerned with students' performance rather than the administrative issues regarding whether you're traditional or non-traditional or just plain alcoholic.</p>
<p>Note, I'm not saying GS and CC are the same. What I'm saying is that from a pragmatic viewpoint, your GPA is created by the exact same people. The CC and GS and SEAS and Barnard bureaucracies have no say in your GPA! </p>
<p>Lastly, if you're getting annoyed by comments from people disparaging the GS group, you're obviously still hung up on the same mundane issues that tend to plague high school students. All I know is that if someone out there reacts badly to the fact that I got a 3.9 and graduated from GS, and I lost out to a kid who graduated from CC with a 3.9, the fellow who discriminated against me is too stupid to deserve my effort as an employee. </p>