Can someone please help me?

juillet
Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:40:31 +0000

There’s a pretty big gulf between “PhD in geology” and “Starbucks barista.”

Transferring won’t harm you, and if you think you can do better in a smaller school close to home it may help you. Your number one priority now is getting up that GPA as close to a 3.0 as possible. Make sure that the rest of your application is very strong, too - get research experience, do really well in class and foster faculty relationships for recommendation letters, and think critically about your research interests.

Plenty of people with low undergraduate GPAs go on to do PhDs eventually. You want to consider the probability that you can’t do it it directly after college. You may have to work for a few years, and you will probably also need to get a master’s in geology or a related field first.