C- now a failing grade in engineering

kevolution
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:45:19 +0000

Man… ya’ll have it easy.

You need at C at UT Austin to pass if you’re an engineer, and you need to maintain a 2.50 or above to stay out of probation.

I would like to disagree with the person who talked about having a more detailed admission screening. If this were true, there would be plenty of smart kids who didn’t work in high school get denied admission. You just can’t predict these things. There should be a general cutoff for admission but not so much that you don’t give a 2nd chance for those who made mistakes in high school. Kids will be kids in high school… doesn’t mean they wont mature.

I was on the opposite spectrum. I cruised through high school AP classes and basically had UT has a safety school… yet somehow I had trouble adjusting to the college ways, and I ended up getting a 2.76 my first semester. It hit me pretty bad because I rarely got any B’s in high school let alone even seen a C in my life.

With that said, it’s a relief to say that I’ve raised my GPA significantly every semester and now I have a flat 3.0 going into my 2nd semester as a sophomore.

Oh yeah, I’m a EE.