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Edited on Thu Apr-22-04 08:50 PM by northwest
It appears that my GPA is a lot higher than I originally thought. Lemme explain:
I was just talking with my father about my classes that I'm taking in college right now, and about an appointment I have scheduled with my class advisor for next week. Now, we were talking about the credits I took in technical college (I'm a transfer Sophomore from tech school, BTW), and how they relate to my GPA overall, and my piss-poor grade performance last semester, and how I'll be talking to my advisor about that.
I have 60-something credits after this year. I will have earned 21 credits this whole year. I count as a full-time student for 2003-04, because I originally enrolled with 24, and only dropped 3 credits.
Now, I had a piss-poor showing in three classes last year with a B and two D's. My grades this semester are better, with a (hopeful) projection for this May of two B's, a C and a D. With my previous mode of thinking, I would have thought that my cummulative GPA for two semesters would be 2.0, which would be just enough to escape academic probation. I used to think that there wouldn't be a good chance of me meeting the minimal standards by the end of this semester, and I would have to be put on probation.
But my father told me that he thought my cummulative GPA would be for ALL the credits I have, including the ones that transferred from tech school. And if that's the case, then my cummulative GPA is AT LEAST 2.8, because my GPA in tech school was just under 3.0!!!
In other words, I was only counting my university credits, and not the whole amount of credits I have, including the ones that transferred.
WELL, DUH!!! HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID??? I've been spending the past two months worrying if they'll let me keep my job on the NDSU football staff next fall, when I've been OK in my GPA the whole time!!!
Not only THAT, but there's a better chance for me to get my GPA back to above 3.0 after next year if my grades keep improving, before I apply for the NDSU undergrad architecture program in May 2005. The standards are that you usually need at least a 3.1 GPA. Well HELL, here I am at only .3 behind that, when all the time I thought I was 1.1-1.3 behind that!!!
Sometimes you just figure something out that seems completely obvious, and it improves your situation a WHOLE lot. I am SOOOOO glad that my GPA is a lot better than I thought it was.
PHEW!!!
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