Quit using your laziness and other factors (i.e. not doing stellar in school) as a "crutch" for your failures.... those type of people (i.e. YOU) think the world owes them something.
Say to those phuckers [who tell you, you can't do something], "Fvck all ya'll" (in the wise words of Tupac Amaru Shakur) and RIDE!
Say to those phuckers [who tell you, you can't do something], "Fvck all ya'll" (in the wise words of Tupac Amaru Shakur) and RIDE!
My first year of college was very bad, and in the past 3 quarters i bumped my gpa from a 2.2 to a 2.78 now. I'm working on a 3.0 by the time i graduate, but it'll probably be more like 2.99999 or something, haha. Anyways, seeing that my gpa is so low i decided t get some experience by the time i graduate. Aslo, my cumulative gpa is 2.78, but my computer science gpa is a 3.0, so i actually am trying to work on 2 angles
1) i'm doing good in my major related classes
2) i have experience.
Don't base your future on yoru gpa, if you mess up in one part compensate in another area, you still have time, good luck!
1) i'm doing good in my major related classes
2) i have experience.
Don't base your future on yoru gpa, if you mess up in one part compensate in another area, you still have time, good luck!
bull. i made it a point to never include a GPA on a resume (heh, i think most of that was the feeling that it would hurt me more by putting it on 
). i think business related fields depend more on GPAs because thats all they do, but in any sort of technical/engineering field I would consider a list of skills, accomplishments, etc. to be worth tons more than any GPA could say. personally, i sucked horribly in most of my classes, especially the ones related to my major (CS)...maybe i was one of the lucky ones, but early in college I started working for a company as a computer tech. while there, i picked up some real world programming experience (ASP, VB, SQLServer) that I've put to much more use than what I learned in classes (C++, Java, blah blah blah). On top of that I've learned a good deal on my own, too. Classes basically gave me some abstract ideas, but I can only count a handful out of 4 years of school that I actually walked away with learning something useful. Frankly, I think if you paid the $40k+ to go to college, they should at least give you that damn piece of paper, cuz they sure as hell didn't offer anything of practical use....its all theoretical BS and research oriented crap....anyway.....eh, i guess that was a bit of a rant, but oh well. just keep working and you'll be fine.
). i think business related fields depend more on GPAs because thats all they do, but in any sort of technical/engineering field I would consider a list of skills, accomplishments, etc. to be worth tons more than any GPA could say. personally, i sucked horribly in most of my classes, especially the ones related to my major (CS)...maybe i was one of the lucky ones, but early in college I started working for a company as a computer tech. while there, i picked up some real world programming experience (ASP, VB, SQLServer) that I've put to much more use than what I learned in classes (C++, Java, blah blah blah). On top of that I've learned a good deal on my own, too. Classes basically gave me some abstract ideas, but I can only count a handful out of 4 years of school that I actually walked away with learning something useful. Frankly, I think if you paid the $40k+ to go to college, they should at least give you that damn piece of paper, cuz they sure as hell didn't offer anything of practical use....its all theoretical BS and research oriented crap....anyway.....eh, i guess that was a bit of a rant, but oh well. just keep working and you'll be fine.
I've got a 2.36 overall GPA and a 3.4 major GPA. I haven't and any major problems getting inverviews for internships and I should hear next week from the internship I really want.
Your GPA isn't the only thing you bring to the table. If you can market and sell yourself well, employers (haven't looked at grad school) will listen.
Your GPA isn't the only thing you bring to the table. If you can market and sell yourself well, employers (haven't looked at grad school) will listen.
You are acting like the the other 50% just goes and washes dishes or something. Not getting into the top 15% isn't the end of the world, neither is it a guarantee at anything in the world.
What school? There's a 1/15 chance we go to the same one .
Either way, GPA is only to get you into the door. If you network right, you can get in other ways -- most jobs are based off of the interview, anyway.
.Either way, GPA is only to get you into the door. If you network right, you can get in other ways -- most jobs are based off of the interview, anyway.
Had a 2.7 GPA with a BS in Managerial Econ from UCD '01. Started working at a start-up for 18months, then got hired at the state gov't.
You didn't mention what school you are going to, which really does matter quite a bit.
However GPA is *not* the only factor employers look at. I work for a fairly large company, and do a bit of recruiting for them, and of the 15 students I interviewed last week, I didn't look at anyone's GPA.
The biggest way to get around a low GPA is to have work experience that is relevant to the career path you want to pursue. This means co-ops, internships, summer jobs, part time jobs, whatever. Having work experience on your resume, and espeically good, relevant experience will go VERY far. Also demonstrating an active interest in any company you apply to (researching them and their products, showing up and being enthusiastic, explaining WHY you'd like to work for them) will do wonders.
Having a low gpa AND a bad attitude about it will get you nowhere.
Edit: PS I graduated college with a 2.7 (give or take) overall, I probably failed more than 10 (15?) courses in my college career, and I walked into an admittedly good job market and got 4 very attractive offers from varied companies. Also, in case nobody told you - after 2-3 years out of college, your GPA basically doesn't mean anything at all.
However GPA is *not* the only factor employers look at. I work for a fairly large company, and do a bit of recruiting for them, and of the 15 students I interviewed last week, I didn't look at anyone's GPA.
The biggest way to get around a low GPA is to have work experience that is relevant to the career path you want to pursue. This means co-ops, internships, summer jobs, part time jobs, whatever. Having work experience on your resume, and espeically good, relevant experience will go VERY far. Also demonstrating an active interest in any company you apply to (researching them and their products, showing up and being enthusiastic, explaining WHY you'd like to work for them) will do wonders.
Having a low gpa AND a bad attitude about it will get you nowhere.
Edit: PS I graduated college with a 2.7 (give or take) overall, I probably failed more than 10 (15?) courses in my college career, and I walked into an admittedly good job market and got 4 very attractive offers from varied companies. Also, in case nobody told you - after 2-3 years out of college, your GPA basically doesn't mean anything at all.
I had a 2.8 GPA in college, but got into law school (mainly because of my LSAT score). I thought I'd be guaranteed a job but now I'm back in the same position, hovering around 50% in my class. All of the employers I've looked at require a top 40% ranking or higher (many are top 15% or higher). I suspect I will just have to start from the bottom again and work my way up. From what I hear job experience and strong interviewing skills help but sadly I lack both.
Hahahaha cute Tommy.
yeah, so your life is doomed if you don't have a high gpa. right. There are other options than grad school. Nope, it isn't. I have a good friend who is about 30 years old, dropped out of CMU in 1995 with a 2.08 GPA, started two companies, and is living quite well in Silly Valley.
I also have an ex-gf who also dropped out of CMU in 1995 due to getting caught dating a professor here, never admitted it to anyone that she dropped out, started a company in the Artificial Intelligence arena in the Seattle area with friends. The company tanked, and she needed to eat. She wound applying for a job at Microsoft, for which she had gotten an interview with threw friends, and she's been there ever since. She even lied to Microsoft about not having a degree (and pretended she had a CS degree from CMU), and got nailed on it last fall. But due to her stellar work performance there (and support from various people at CMU, myself included), she still kept her job. Her job title now: University Relations Manager for CMU (and a few other schools, too). Her major in college: Creative Writing. Her GPA: 3.3 at the time of leaving. She used to be a program manager in various software groups, including IIS. In fact, the IIS Code Red bug was her fault.
Yes, you are reading this correctly. I'm not revealing her name, but intelligent ATOT people probably know who I am referring to. Note I do not advocate lying to get ahead.
Oh, another interesting statistic: the avg. salary of CMU dropouts are higher than CMU graduates.
Life leads you onto interesting paths, not always the one you envisioned, and not always the traditional path that everyone tells you to go on. Mine certainly is down an interesting path, one that I didn't expect 3 years ago.
I graduated with a 3.01 and am now in grad school at the same university (top 20 in US News & World Report). My GRE scores were great and I had recommendations from two faculty members in the department I was applying to. My school was also well known for not practicing the Ivy League "Gentleman's C". The average GPA for engineering in my graduating class was 3.22.
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If your confident and carry yourself well that goes a long way in an interview. Experience like many others have said means A HELL OF A LOT.
The gpa just lets you get an interview. Remember if your not confident or just don't speak much in the interview you WILL BOMB anyway so your 4.0gpa did pretty much nothing. Sure you got an interview but you didn't get the job so it didn't matter.
Just work hard and knuckle down. When you study hard a few hrs later you will feel MUCH better.
Good luck.
Koing
The gpa just lets you get an interview. Remember if your not confident or just don't speak much in the interview you WILL BOMB anyway so your 4.0gpa did pretty much nothing. Sure you got an interview but you didn't get the job so it didn't matter.
Just work hard and knuckle down. When you study hard a few hrs later you will feel MUCH better.
Good luck.
Koing
well me and my 2.8 overall got a moderately decent job.
i just had to be willing to move to a town of 1200 people in the middle of nowhere to get it.
my GPA in my major was above a 3.0, so thats what i put on my resume.
i just had to be willing to move to a town of 1200 people in the middle of nowhere to get it.
my GPA in my major was above a 3.0, so thats what i put on my resume.
If your GPA is low, then make up for it in other ways. Work and/or research experience, extracurriculars, internships, or what have you. There are dozens of ways to compensate for grades; you just have to try equally as hard at each of those options as you do at studying.
Life will give you what you work for and earn, not what you feel you deserve based on a high/low GPA. As someone else mentioned, if you keep knocking on doors, eventually one of them will open.
Life will give you what you work for and earn, not what you feel you deserve based on a high/low GPA. As someone else mentioned, if you keep knocking on doors, eventually one of them will open.
Man, what did you all do?
Get drunk 4 nights a week?
Not study?
Geesh.
Ill be graduating with a pretty high GPA...
Get drunk 4 nights a week?
Not study?
Geesh.
Ill be graduating with a pretty high GPA...
i feel you man. former valedictorian too and you just realize college isn't like high school once you get here. i'm pretty much outta here and just hope to work some connections, get a decent job and experience, hope that flies with the med schools, and go from there. if being valedictorian taught me anything, it's not to give up. there's a reason you were valedictorian, and unless it's cause you cheated in every one of your classes, you'll be fine.
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