Did you guys know that life is a 2.5 GPA?

[JohnKleeb]

Wow :D. Yes, thats my GPA and this time last year I would have been a whiner about it but instead I look for ways to better it.

[Jack_Dawson]

1. GPAs matter not

Signed,

Bill Gates

[JohnKleeb]

2. hah what was his?

[Jack_Dawson]

3. He's a Dropout

So I'm guessing it wasn't a 4.0

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. he got into harvard

not to depress anybody...but dropping out of harvard is more of an achievement than most people have

[JohnKleeb]

7. yes he did

They would spray me off if I went there, hey no dumb people :D.

[JohnKleeb]

8. thats rigth

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

4. I graduated with a 2.65

And am doing far better than the vast majority of my peers. As soon as you get your first job, your GPA is rendered completely irrelevant, unless you wanna go to grad school.

[JohnKleeb]

6. Ive actually worked three jobs already

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Even For Grad School. . .

. . .the GRE scores are more important than GPA. At least that is what the administrators tell me.

GPA's can be deceiving. I'm sure lots of us knew the great "test takers". People who studied every night before a test and aced everything. Then at mid-terms and finals, there they were, cramming again.

Aced every test and still needed to cram? Why? One simple answer: THEY WEREN'T ACTUALLY LEARNING ANYTHING! But, there GPA was superb. When they got their degree, they might have had a 4.0, or something better than my 3.85, but i knew 10 times more than they did.

That's why, i'm told, that the GRE's carry such weight. It's supposed to be true, NOW, of MCAT's, LSAT's, and DAT's as well. Don't think that was true in the 70's, but it's supposed to be now.

College is for learning. It's not just a trade school. Learning is more important than how many A's and how many B's.

As to JohnKleeb, there is nothing in a 2.65 to be embarassed about.
The Professor

[JohnKleeb]

10. Its a 2.5

I wish I had maintained the 3.0 I had as a freshman but then again most people who go to the comm college I am gonna go to go on to great schools.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Still A Non-Problem

First, if you want to get it higher, you have time. Secondly, as long as you're learning something along the way, you will be valuable to some firm some day.

I know you're not whining anymore! But, don't fret either. It is, what it is.
The Professor

[JohnKleeb]

12. I am not that worried honestly

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Good! eom

The Professor

[allyourbase]

14. I agree, and...

Recalled conversation (from an interview I was on soon after graduating college)

Him: What was your GPA?
Me: About a 2.7.
Him: Good. I don't want some 4.0 research guy.

(Didn't get the job, but it was a tough market then.)

Sirjwtheblack is right - I can't remember the last time I was asked about my GPA.

[JohnKleeb]

15. thats godo to know

I just see these averages and stuff and I admit, I get kinda nervous.

[UrbScotty]

20. Once you get acceped into college,HS GPA hardly matters, BUT...

...you should know that that is no excuse to let 'senioritis' kick in, because you could still get put on academic probation.

GOOD LUCK KLEEB!!

[JohnKleeb]

21. I am actually trying to make senior year like freshman year

When I got a 3.0 GPA, it started to slip in sophomore year when I ended my no D's and F's streak.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

17. ...are belong to us?

Welcome to DU, CATS! :evilgrin:

[captainjack]

19. gpa is still important just to land a job...

i came out of an engineering school, had a 3.1, and couldn't get an interview. i violated the medical school entrance exam though; hopefully i'll go into medicine. :)

i wonder, though, if gwb were joe blow instead, and still were the same person(same gpa, same attitude, same smirk, same ideology), would he survive in the real world?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. My GPA wasn't even on my resume.

I got the first job I interviewed for.

[UrbScotty]

16. That's 2.49 higher than one of our nation's Presidents!

:party:

[JohnKleeb]

18. haha

my dad isn't the CIA director either though heh. I read something interesting the other day, it seems like George Washington had his first public service job at 17, he was a surveyor at my age, you know how old Dubya was? 48 :D the third oldest ever, and Kerry's first came in his early 30's when he was DA of Middlesex.

[tigereye]

23. John I graduated 10 th in my high school class

and was obsessed with grades. I suppose it helped to get into college, but there is more to life than grades. But it is more important to really learn, than to have really good grades. In college, I realized that. And I can't say it made a lot of difference in my work life, either.

[mrboba1]

24. I didn't get out of high school with even a 3.0

But my college prof said I was the best intuitive economist he had seen in his 6 years of teaching...