Staying an extra year in College to bring up GPA?

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kyrax12

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Was thinking of staying in College for an extra year to bring up MY GPA.

Would it be worth it to take some Misc. classes just to bump?
 
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Lifer
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kyrax12 said:
not really applying to med school.

Just to get into the computer science major.
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Well, it would depend a lot on what your current GPA is and what the requirement is for your school's comp sci program (assuming you are staying with your current school).
 
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Before anything else it would be worthwhile to calculate what the best case scenario would be. Let's say you had 120 credit hours (so enough to graduate) with a GPA of 2.5, an additional 32 credit hours all getting A's would get you a 2.8 GPA. Would that really be worth it?

Add on the additional costs of another year of college, and you'd almost certainly be much better off working on getting a job ASAP.
 
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kyrax12

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blinblue said:
Before anything else it would be worthwhile to calculate what the best case scenario would be. Let's say you had 120 credit hours (so enough to graduate) with a GPA of 2.5, an additional 32 credit hours all getting A's would get you a 2.8 GPA. Would that really be worth it?

Add on the additional costs of another year of college, and you'd almost certainly be much better off working on getting a job ASAP.
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what about a 2.6?
 
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OlafSicky

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If you need an extra year to bring up your GPA than not really. How much would you be paying for this extra year.
 
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Not at all worth it in any scenario unless you have very specific grad school plans.. even then your grad school plans are probably not worth it
 
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kyrax12 said:
Was thinking of staying in College for an extra year to bring up MY GPA.

Would it be worth it to take some Misc. classes just to bump?
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and when u did the math, how much higher could your gpa be?
 
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Is this CS school at the community college you're at or some other university?
 
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kyrax12

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rcpratt said:
Is this CS school at the community college you're at or some other university?
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some other university.
I am so horribly screwed.

I want to be done with two semester but being the dumbass that I am.. I changed my major.

Now what should be my course of action?
 
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Doesn't make sense. More classes means more credits to your total already which makes each A do less and less as far as raising your GPA. You'd have to take 21 credits or some nonsense and get straight A's to see any benefit.
 
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kyrax12

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I don't know what I am going to do then.

My GPA is so worthlessly low. I don't even know if I can do C.S with that low of a GPA.

What should be my next course?

I don't even know what to do with my life.
 
Ricemarine

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At my local CC's, you're allowed to retake courses and override previous grades.

I should've done that before I transferred to a 4-year university. To note, the avg acceptance GPA for CS at my university is a 3.62, with a 30% acceptance rate.
 
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