Last semester GPA below 3.0--Haas question

HeavyMetalG0d · 06-04-2008, 09:16 PM

my buddy missed a few grades this last semester at his CC, literally, by a few points. He ended up with just below a 3.0. He was supposed to transfer to haas in the fall.

Tell me everything I need to know. I assume he's going to have to tell them and they will ask for a statement to explain himself right? Do you know of anybody whos offer was rescinded? tell meeee

dreamspace · 06-04-2008, 09:38 PM

I would talk to the prof at CC and see if he can do anything to make up for that...

HeavyMetalG0d · 06-04-2008, 09:44 PM

i totally agree, i hear that most of them are being unreasonable though and that is why i posted this

Russkiy_Bear · 06-05-2008, 10:19 AM

It's not the professor's fault... it's your friends fault.

Tell him to call Haas admissions.

Guardiangel · 06-05-2008, 02:04 PM

i don't believe that unreasonable professors will cause him to have below a 3.0
unless all his professors were unreasonable?
or did he pile his units till the last semester?
in this case i agree with rusky.
if he gets rescinded then its his fault. either slacking last semester or just plain planning error.

s_dragon · 06-05-2008, 06:12 PM

haha Dam the admission officer who admitted him

kevinc121 · 06-05-2008, 07:05 PM

Seriously. Below a 3.0 for Haas? I don't think thats gonna happen.

Russkiy_Bear · 06-06-2008, 02:56 PM

Students today blame their professors for the smallest things.. There is always a solution and a way around the problem, it's the STUDENTS responsibility, stop flaming the Profs.

s_dragon · 06-06-2008, 03:29 PM

agree. you may not get A in class, but if the GPA is dropped below 3.0 is unacceptable. One of my friend who got into Cal Econ is also in the same boat. She called her counselor in Cal and the answer she got is: you should be fine if you pass all classes (doubt if it is an inexperience counselor anyway.)

suwaifo · 06-06-2008, 09:03 PM

If a professor sucks, then a professor sucks and probably should not be teaching. Stop trying to defend bad professors. It's a shared responsibility, and students just have the harder but feasible end.

Guardiangel · 06-06-2008, 09:17 PM

well i dun geddit. if he got into haas he probably had really close to a 3.9 or a 4.0
that would make a few semesters of 4.0s
if hes below a 3.0 that means his grades plummeted, nothing more nothing less
assuming hes a good student and there is really a bad professor.
3 As and 1 C.
that GPA would be 3.5
assuming he got 2 As 1 B and 1 C
his GPA would be 3.25
if he got 2 As and 2 Cs assuming seriously 2 professors were horrible. thats a 3.0 GPA
look at the numbers here...
are u saying you really can blame it on sucky professors?
for him to get lower than a 3.0 that means he had 2 horrible professors, 1 bad professor, and 1 decent professor.
what are the odds aye...

s_dragon · 06-06-2008, 09:23 PM

Guardiangel , do you agree that the admission process is totally fair now?

suwaifo · 06-06-2008, 09:28 PM

I barely understood what GuardianAngel was saying if he/she was talking to me, but I guess what I meant to say didn't articulate well (oh the irony..). A bad professor is a bad professor. It's understandable to not get as good a grade as you would with a different professor; however, this is by no means any excuse not to get an A, so to kind of relate back to the OP's question, he's probably going to have to provide an explanation. I don't know about anything on Haas though because I'm a bio major.

Guardiangel · 06-06-2008, 10:10 PM

sry i really hate putting punctuations in forums
i m just too used to instant messenging i guess

well s_dragon... up till fall he probably was a competitive applicant. i guess the admission process can't really look into someone's character in this situation.
its pretty obvious he simply slacked off.

suwaifo what i was trying to say was, the probability of him getting bad grades due to bad professors is very slim. if he got in, he probably did well all this time. its no excuse for his grades to slide this badly. i just stated out the numbers to show that he would need 3/4 bad professors on the last semester, which is very unlikely, for him to have a gpa below 3.0

i just thought that u were standing on the other side when u said "Stop trying to defend bad professors". well most of us here do not think that, the quality of professors, in this case, contributed to down fall of this applicant.

i hate grammar and punctuations when i type fast =.= sry just not my style