Yeah I do care, I work hard to keep As. That class affects my GPA, which I CARE about.
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Grades for College
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Yeah I do care, I work hard to keep As. That class affects my GPA, which I CARE about.
Sounds like your plan backfired to me... Why would you even take a fitness class in college other than to boost your GPA?
While grades are important, they are not everything. You can easily mess with the credibility of your GPA by taking blow off classes. Also, as others have pointed out, GPA means little as time goes on. A 3.7 is just as good as a 4.0. In fact, many recruiters openly state that they would rather hire someone with a 3.5 GPA and outside involvement (clubs, community service, jobs) than someone with a 4.0 and no experience doing anything.
No one is saying that grades mean nothing at all. It's a cost-benefit thing. A 1.0 GPA will get you a job at McDonald's, a 2.0 may get you a better job than that, and so on. However, the closer you get to a 4.0, the less additional benefit you will receive.
While grades are important, they are not everything. You can easily mess with the credibility of your GPA by taking blow off classes. Also, as others have pointed out, GPA means little as time goes on. A 3.7 is just as good as a 4.0. In fact, many recruiters openly state that they would rather hire someone with a 3.5 GPA and outside involvement (clubs, community service, jobs) than someone with a 4.0 and no experience doing anything.
No one is saying that grades mean nothing at all. It's a cost-benefit thing. A 1.0 GPA will get you a job at McDonald's, a 2.0 may get you a better job than that, and so on. However, the closer you get to a 4.0, the less additional benefit you will receive.
Hey now!! I think I should be offended but I have no idea what tertiary means.
*Seton Hall University, Class of 2005*
Did you miss earlier where I said it was required? I dont take any extra classes, expensive enough as it is at ~$450 a credit.
At least in down under, your end portfolio and internship experience is more important than what School you got your degree from. I go to the top Uni in NZ for Computer Science but my experience as an IT Engineer and (hopefully) my IBM internship will be more important than my degree overall. I am shooting for first class honours though, Waikato allows us to jump straight to a P.h.D. with one and I think doing one will be an interesting life experience.
No, but you're entitled to belive what you wish.
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For any high-end position, the first filtering is done by the name of the university. If you just want a job and a reasonable salary, that's a different story, entirely. I know a lot about PSU, I worked there for a summer. I thought the campus was OK but State College, even as a college town, was quite boring.
Also, I wouldn't go throwing around "practcally owned" by anybody, especially a state university.
Yeah, basically what I said. So, you're agreeing with me? You start it as if you don't.
Yes. I sure am.
Pray tell....what's wrong with State Universities? There are a few in California that are pretty good.
Pray tell....what's wrong with State Universities? There are a few in California that are pretty good.
Its my understanding that most of them suck and/or are underfunded.
Pray tell....what's wrong with State Universities? There are a few in California that are pretty good.
Actually, there's only one that's quite good (Berkeley). There others are known for sports rather than academics/research (USC/UCSF/UCSD/UCLA). There's are also a few good research institutes in CA (Scripps/CalTech).
But on the whole, most of the UC schools are pretty crappy.
LOL
USC isn't a state school. So you've pretty much invalidated your argument....and USC and UCLA are both excellent academic instituions. Just because they excel in athletics, doesn't mean they can't excel in academics.
Thanks for trying, though.
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Wrong. I graduated college with a 3.7 but I didn't beat myself up over the fact that it wasn't a 4.0.
LOL
USC isn't a state school. So you've pretty much invalidated your argument....and USC and UCLA are both excellent academic instituions. Just because they excel in athletics, doesn't mean they can't excel in academics.
Thanks for trying, though.
Not to mention... UCSF known for sports? ROFL
Hey, troll, I am deeply offended by your characterization of UCSF. We had this guy who could run a 100 meter in 13 seconds, flat!
I think they have the best basketball and football teams, too and they totally cleaned out cross town rivals Golden Gate and Hastings.
Exactly. I types my response and my phone, so I was too lazy to find a picture.
As for those fitness classes being required, it really shows how much of a joke the school is.
Every school I've seen (except graduate-level, of course) requires at least 2 "activity" courses or one "wellness" course.
Mine didn't, thankfully, I didn't have time for one.
If your employer cares about your GPA, then they're going to ask for a transcript to prove you're not BSing them on your resume. If they see the transcript, and see you had As in all of your major classes and got a B in a tennis class, they're not going to care.
It's not like you go to Harvard -- Never even heard of your school. P.S it's "C"s get degrees, not "D"s.
D = 1.0 C = 2.0, all colleges require 2.0 to graduate... Oh lord.
Paying tuition does not entitle you to grades of any kind, nor a reward of any kind, nor a degree of any kind.
Good grades in college feel good while you're in college. This is the part I think a lot of the "Grades don't matter in the real world" posts seem to be missing. The OP clearly wants to feel good about themselves by attaining the highest marks possible. Who are we to tell him/her that this is a fruitless endeavor?
I just hope for your sake OP that you don't let your pursuit of the highest possible GPA get in the way of other activities and involvements that can be every bit or maybe more-so rewarding for you.
I just hope for your sake OP that you don't let your pursuit of the highest possible GPA get in the way of other activities and involvements that can be every bit or maybe more-so rewarding for you.
Its not a book school, im going to learn CNC programming, Robotics, CAD/CAM Design. Probably all things you have never heard of either.
Read post below.
Exactly. I still can't believe half of the other comments.
