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[GeekyPenguin]

Originally Posted by EnlightenedEve

For all you out there with these great grades, what kind of advice would you give to someone without such a high GPA who hopes to bring it up?

I am currently a mechanical engineering major, so sometimes an A isn't really the goal, just passing is. It seems like sometimes, just being at the top of the failing grades is a success. What do you do to raise your grades when the entire class is failing?

My GPA is currently a 2.43 on a 4 point scale. My friends tell me they are proud of me for A) not flunking out, B) not giving up, and C) still having an outside life and being active in the community (I volunteer, go to church, am active at church, am on the EBoard for 2 organizations on campus)
I just have a hard time believing that this is something to be proud of.

When I was in high school, I graduated in the top 10 percent of the class in the National Honor Society and the National Foreign Languages Honor Society, took AP classes and was in 4 different extra curricular activities.
Do you think that maybe this is affecting the way I view my college career?

Any advice that any of you have would be greatly appreciated.
Study skills, time management advice, helpful websites, anything.

Also, if you have any female contacts in the mechanical engineering field, please let me know. I am always looking for contacts and mentors.
Thanks

I was a CS/SE major for two years, and my engineering grades were RARELY above a B or a B- no matter how hard I studied - meanwhile my other grades were all still As or Bs. Are you involved with SWE on your campus? Sometimes talking to the older women can be very helpful.

I ended up leaving engineering and that school, but my sorority sisters who were engineers graduated with around a 2.8 most of the time - which generally put them in the top quarter of their engineering class. Do you have an advisor in the program? Maybe you could go talk to them about what the average GPA for the college of engineering is.

[EnlightenedEve]

Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin

I was a CS/SE major for two years, and my engineering grades were RARELY above a B or a B- no matter how hard I studied - meanwhile my other grades were all still As or Bs. Are you involved with SWE on your campus? Sometimes talking to the older women can be very helpful.

I ended up leaving engineering and that school, but my sorority sisters who were engineers graduated with around a 2.8 most of the time - which generally put them in the top quarter of their engineering class. Do you have an advisor in the program? Maybe you could go talk to them about what the average GPA for the college of engineering is.

Thanks for the advice. Our chapter of SWE is getting more organized by the minute right now, so I am starting to get more involved. I just wish they had been doing more when I was a freshman. But that's nothing that I can change now. I do have an advisor, and I am fortunate that she is one of the few female faculty members in our department. So she definitely knows what I'm going through. I think I'm going to have to put in a few more hours talking to her and the members of the SWE chapter. Also, the national NSBE conference falls during my spring break this year, so I will be attending that. Maybe I'll post back in the future to let you guys know how everything is going. And thanks again for all the advice.

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