1.5 GPA Freshman Year Help!

cosmicfish
Sat, 17 May 2014 21:37:25 +0000

Will I still get a job, will I get out of probation?

The second part is a matter of university policy, but I would guess that you may already be headed towards expulsion - most universities in my experience will kick you out after 2 consecutive semesters where your cumulative and semester GPA’s have all been <2.00.

The first part is much more forgiving - you can still get a cumulative GPA >3.00, especially since I presume you will have to retake a lot of credits. By the time you are a senior, they will not care about your freshman year GPA, they will care much much more about what has happened since.



Any advice or comments would be helpful thank you!

Other posters have said this, but I will repeat it: Figure out what you are doing wrong, and don’t take another course until you have fixed it. You are down at the bottom of a hole, and doing nothing is better than digging deeper. If you can get it together over the summer, great, if not then take a semester or two or ten off until you have gotten it together.

I had a lot of problems academically when I started in college, but it still took several years to get to the point where they kicked me out. Recovering from that and getting back into school was a long and painful road, and I would have been much better off taking a couple of years away from school rather than continuing to spiral downward. But I did recover, and am now at a top PhD program for my field, so I can say from experience that you can come back from this… but I do not think that most people *would[/]. Will you?