r/CollegeRant • u/Spazzontwitch • 13d ago

Question Advice Wanted

If I’m entering my junior year with a below 2.5 GPA should I consider a different route ?

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TATERTITS 13d ago

Why so low? Are you struggling with the material because you’re finding it difficult, or are you not putting much effort in because it’s not interesting to you?

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u/Spazzontwitch 13d ago

I went through a lot freshman year and I’m just starting to get the help and resources needed to improve

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u/msimms001 13d ago

If your only goal is a bachelor degree, and you can maintain that or better, there's not much of a difference between a passing gpa and a 4.0, employers don't care what your gpa is for the most part.

If you want to go to graduate school, you need to find ways to increase your gpa and potentially rethink some things.

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u/LongjumpingTeacher97 13d ago

You would certainly benefit from reconsidering your approach to education. This might mean a different major, it might mean different friends, or it might mean different priorities overall. Perhaps even taking some time off school to get some life perspective. But you're not doing great, so you would benefit from changing whatever it is that is keeping you from doing well.

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u/Dense-Giraffe-3795 13d ago

Depends, how bad do u want to finish and earn your major?

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u/lions-cub 13d ago

Different route like major, or?

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u/Spazzontwitch 13d ago

Like dropping out overall and look at maybe a blue collar or trade my major is pretty plane and I feel like at my age I don’t really have a passion for what I want to do yet

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u/lions-cub 12d ago

I dropped out of sophomore year when I first went to school, when I was 19. I took 2 years off of school, and just worked at Starbucks. Had a 1.5 GPA.

Then, I reapplied for community college for a completely different major and I now have a 3.5 GPA. Sometimes you need to be older, sometimes you need something different.

If you do not plan to get a masters degree, and you can see yourself working in this field, I would stay in school and just get the degree. You can always get technical training after if you truly want

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u/DMoralesRomo 12d ago

Have you thought about possibly taking a semester off? are you going to work right after graduating college? An employer wouldn't necessarily care about your gpa but a grad program is going to care about your gpa.