Current Events > Anybody bring up a horrid gpa with a mass amount of credits?

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Went full lazy neckbeard in community college, but still managed to graduate a couple years ago.

I have about 109 credit hours and a 2.33 GPA. I'm just now deciding I want to go to university to increase my earning potential. I need a to transfer 2.5

Not sure if should taking an English with 3 credit hours and getting an A will be enough. Or possibly retake a math course and have that replace my grade?

Thoughts? How hard would it be seeing as I got mostly C's in my courses.

Yes I'm probably gonna be flamed for being a lazy ass, but trying to fix the damage now.

The easiest way mathmatically to raise your GPA would be to raise some C's to A's assuming you are capable of getting A's in these courses.

Atralis posted...

The easiest way mathmatically to raise your GPA would be to raise some C's to A's assuming you are capable of getting A's in these courses.

So new courses are pointless basically?

You gotta retake a bunch of courses and get better grades in them.
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Considering how many credit hours are in that gpa, that means youll probably need at least a full semester of all As to get to a 2.5 if not more
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Flockaveli posted...

You gotta retake a bunch of courses and get better grades in them.

I think this is gonna be key. Got some basic English courses I only got a C in

Only thing I hate about English is having to type about feelings and all that other BS.

ImInTHIS posted...

Went full lazy neckbeard in community college, but still managed to graduate a couple years ago.

I have about 109 credit hours and a 2.33 GPA. I'm just now deciding I want to go to university to increase my earning potential. I need a to transfer 2.5

Not sure if should taking an English with 3 credit hours and getting an A will be enough. Or possibly retake a math course and have that replace my grade?

Thoughts? How hard would it be seeing as I got mostly C's in my courses.

Yes I'm probably gonna be flamed for being a lazy ass, but trying to fix the damage now.

I think 3 credit hours is roughly 3% of your overall gpa. 1 A could potentially raise your GPA by .1 then, so no it wouldn't be enough.
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I think it will take more than 1 class to bring that up as the above poster pointed out
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You can probably Google search gpa calculators. Might help you out.
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ImInTHIS posted...

Atralis posted...

The easiest way mathmatically to raise your GPA would be to raise some C's to A's assuming you are capable of getting A's in these courses.

So new courses are pointless basically?

They are pointless if your sole objective is to boost your GPA in the shortest time possible.

Think about it like this

Semester 1.

Course A : C
Course B: C
Cumulative GPA : 2

Semester 2 a:
Course C: A
Course D: A
Cumulative GPA : 3

Semester 2 b:
Course A : A
Course B: A
Cumulative GPA: 4

The reason that people don't repeat every course they get a C or B is more about the fact that they want to move towards a degree in 4 to 5 years rather than in 8 years and once you actually get into college the basic fact is that C's get degrees.

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

Atralis posted...

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

I don't get why it would take another 4 years, he already has more than two year's worth of credits.

Some universities won't let you transfer more than 64 credits, but still that's two years worth.

These are semester credit hours btw, some places that do things quarterly may have different numbers.
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Atralis posted...

ImInTHIS posted...

Atralis posted...

The easiest way mathmatically to raise your GPA would be to raise some C's to A's assuming you are capable of getting A's in these courses.

So new courses are pointless basically?

They are pointless if your sole objective is to boost your GPA in the shortest time possible.

Think about it like this

Semester 1.

Course A : C
Course B: C
Cumulative GPA : 2

Semester 2 a:
Course C: A
Course D: A
Cumulative GPA : 3

Semester 2 b:
Course A : A
Course B: A
Cumulative GPA: 4

The reason that people don't repeat every course they get a C or B is more about the fact that they want to move towards a degree in 4 to 5 years rather than in 8 years and once you actually get into college the basic fact is that C's get degrees.

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

This basically. However alot of decent colleges require a 2.5 or higher for admission so if thats the case then it may be worthwhile to pursue increasing your gpa just to get in. If that isn't a requirement for the college you are looking to go to, then there's no point in even increasing your gpa at all. You aren't going to qualify for master's courses with your current gpa if that was a concern you would be better off just enrolling as a new student.
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My friend graduated with an accounting major with a GPA of 2.03. He went to grad school for his masters and it got wiped out and now has a 3.4 gpa. Don't know if this can apply to you as well.
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Prestoff posted...

My friend graduated with an accounting major with a GPA of 2.03. He went to grad school for his masters and it got wiped out and now has a 3.4 gpa. Don't know if this can apply to you as well.

How did he get into a master's program with a 2.03 GPA? All the one's I know about require a 3.0 or higher.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

Atralis posted...

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

I don't get why it would take another 4 years, he already has more than two year's worth of credits.

Some universities won't let you transfer more than 64 credits, but still that's two years worth.

These are semester credit hours btw, some places that do things quarterly may have different numbers.

No it wouldn't take me 4 years. Got my associates

But from the gist of things, I should retake a couple courses with C's and turn them into As. All I need is a 2.5.

Trying to get into Illinois State University construction management program

Prestoff posted...

My friend graduated with an accounting major with a GPA of 2.03. He went to grad school for his masters and it got wiped out and now has a 3.4 gpa. Don't know if this can apply to you as well.

I wonder how'd that happen. I mean if I have my associates could I just transfer over?

Howl posted...

Prestoff posted...

My friend graduated with an accounting major with a GPA of 2.03. He went to grad school for his masters and it got wiped out and now has a 3.4 gpa. Don't know if this can apply to you as well.

How did he get into a master's program with a 2.03 GPA? All the one's I know about require a 3.0 or higher.

He said he went to a grad school that looked at everything, meaning his work experience (8 years worth), his whole transcript (he got A's in his Senior year), and recommendations letters from professors. I forgot what the name of the school was, but it is a good option to take if you feel that your GPA can't improve because you took too many classes and got C's in the majority of them.
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Prestoff posted...

Howl posted...

Prestoff posted...

My friend graduated with an accounting major with a GPA of 2.03. He went to grad school for his masters and it got wiped out and now has a 3.4 gpa. Don't know if this can apply to you as well.

How did he get into a master's program with a 2.03 GPA? All the one's I know about require a 3.0 or higher.

He said he went to a grad school that looked at everything, meaning his work experience (8 years worth), his whole transcript (he got A's in his Senior year), and recommendations letters from professors. I forgot what the name of the school was, but it is a good option to take if you feel that your GPA can't improve because you took too many classes and got C's in the majority of them.

That's interesting. I didn't even know that existed tbh.
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Given the US alone has a couple thousand universities, I would assume that there are at least some universities that would accept you if you got a good score on the GRE even with a crappy GPA.
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Howl posted...

Prestoff posted...

Howl posted...

Prestoff posted...

My friend graduated with an accounting major with a GPA of 2.03. He went to grad school for his masters and it got wiped out and now has a 3.4 gpa. Don't know if this can apply to you as well.

How did he get into a master's program with a 2.03 GPA? All the one's I know about require a 3.0 or higher.

He said he went to a grad school that looked at everything, meaning his work experience (8 years worth), his whole transcript (he got A's in his Senior year), and recommendations letters from professors. I forgot what the name of the school was, but it is a good option to take if you feel that your GPA can't improve because you took too many classes and got C's in the majority of them.

That's interesting. I didn't even know that existed tbh.

I'm as surprised as you are. My accounting firm has a 3.5 gpa minimum requirement and yet he somehow managed to get into it despite his low gpa. When I asked him, he told me just that. Well I mean he also had a pretty high Accounting Major GPA of 3.6, just that he didn't take his other non-accounting classes very seriously so that might have played a role as well.
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Atralis posted...

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

Lol what

Why would he spend 4 years at a university when you get a bachelors with 120 credits

Depending on the major you can indeed be throttled in terms of the courses that you can take. I went for a BSCS at CU Boulder after spending about a year and a half knocking out almost all of my math and science courses at community college.

Then I hit the wall of prereqs. I had to take intro before I took Data Structures. I had to take Data Structures before almost everything else. Computer Systems before operating systems. Then once things finally broadened out and I could choose from lots of different CS courses to take I felt like I really was over stretched to take too many of these extremely rigorous courses at once. Then of course the year long senior capstone.

Maybe this is just STEM or maybe just certain STEM programs but I felt it was damn near impossible to speed through the program even with most of my Math and Science knocked out beforehand.