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I have a 3.8 and am a senior in college. I have always been on the Dean's list and always worked full time at the same time. This semester though is kicking my butt.
One professor doesn't like me too much. All the assignments are based on opinion but she doesn't accept mine and constantly gives me poor grades for it. I can't drop the class. I need it.
I just got back home from failing a test in one of my most important classes. I am a finance major and really worried about what kind of gpa I need to be able to advance in school, or the workplace. Maybe work experience will count for something?
The professor told us the average of this test has been, in every previous semester, a 60-65%. I counted up the points of the problems I know I got right....30 points.
I looked around the room and some students were even crying. I'm trying not to anticipate complete course failure but it's taxing not too.
I have a 3.8 and am a senior in college. I have always been on the Dean's list and always worked full time at the same time. This semester though is kicking my butt.
One professor doesn't like me too much. All the assignments are based on opinion but she doesn't accept mine and constantly gives me poor grades for it. I can't drop the class. I need it.
I just got back home from failing a test in one of my most important classes. I am a finance major and really worried about what kind of gpa I need to be able to advance in school, or the workplace. Maybe work experience will count for something?
The professor told us the average of this test has been, in every previous semester, a 60-65%. I counted up the points of the problems I know I got right....30 points.
I looked around the room and some students were even crying. I'm trying not to anticipate complete course failure but it's taxing not too.
/rant.
A wise person once told me that your GPA matters for the first minute of the first job you get after college. Beyond that, it's all about job experience and how you perform in the real world. So... get that first job... and you're set.
However, I don't suggest jobs to anyone. I wouldn't wish a job on a human being who desires to go somewhere in life. Start a business instead.
Sorry I don't have an answer to your question as I'm a finance major in college also. Just curious, what course are you taking that all the assignments are opinion-based?
Have you ever had an internship? They tell us that internships are equal to if not more important than grades...I'm getting one this summer hopefully-I have a few leads. IMO though, with a 3.8 I wouldn't worry too much if you get a low grade in this course. Not unless you're trying to get into what few bulge bracket IBs are left.
GPA does matter and has an impact on your first job and how much money you will make. Higher paying jobs are more competitive, which means you are going to be competing with people that have good GPAs. Generally, anything over a 3.0 is good. If it is less, you might have to explain yourself or make up for it in work experience or other activities. Several people with a low GPA do extremely well, but you might just have to start off with a crappy first job.
I have a 3.8 and am a senior in college. I have always been on the Dean's list and always worked full time at the same time. This semester though is kicking my butt.
If you're a senior with a 3.8 gpa, you'll be fine. The equation for gpa calculation is weighted and hence biased towards freshman and soph year (obviously). As far as it affecting your job...I used to think it mattered. I interviewed 3 people last week for a contract position and it didn't even dawn on me to look for a gpa. Two of them were fresh out of school with only interneships under their belts. It didn't dawn on any of the folk interviewing in our group. It certainly didn't come up today in our meeting when we made the pick. What's important is your senior research, directed studies, volunteer work, internships, anything that will give you some experience. Go work with a prof for the rest of the year (for free if you have to).
by the time I graduated college, I had three internships, and I came highly recommended, but none of the recruiters chose me, and I had to find a job without the schools' help
while these chicks who were presidents of some useless clubs, and had high gpa's, but could not complete an assignment without crying, scratching someone's eyes out, and getting all emotional were given jobs, but they looked cute while doing it
It is all about politics
having internships, and high gpa's, and being cool with the right people are all important
Now being in the right circles is even more important though
Like the previous poster stated, maybe for the first job then no one cares. Heck, my undergrad GPA was 2.7 and GPA within my major was 2.5. Guess what my GPA from graduate school was? 3.85 (Ph.D. Medical Neuropharmacology from a major medical school) where there's all the pressure and stress of either getting an 'A' in every class or risk being kicked out of the program with even a 'B' grade.
High school GPA is obviously very important in that it's one of the most important determinant of which college will accept you.
It depends on if you want to go to grad school and if you do what kind of grad school. I was a finance major too and have never had anyone ask me what my gpa was. Of course I graduated ten years ago and the job market was very different.
only for your first job getting leg in the door or if you want to grad school. for jobs if they ask your gpa within major is going to be more important, same thing for SOME grad schools... they just weight your junior/senior year in the field you are applying to, others like law schools will weight your cumulative. every schools have a different rubric though. many favor the gre, lsat, gmat higher though as the rigor of different universities can have a wide range.
who you know in smaller cities is going to prove more important than in bigger towns where there is much more # of jobs available and not everybody knows each other.
everyone gets this experience at some point.
with the way the economy is going just get thru it.
the depreciation on degrees is in a nose dive.
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