GC would never guess that...

[alum]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

They let him come back after the 0.0 the first semester? How long can you have a really poor GPA and keep taking classes (presuming you had the money)?

This might sound like a ridiculous question, but do any schools have "minimum" GPAs required to "stay" in a Bachelor's program?

I know that some majors have GPA requirements to get into their programs, and remember some people having to put off their official "declaration" by one or two semesters until they reached the minimum.

Carnegie Mellon puts freshmen on academic probation if they fall below a 1.75 for their first 2 semesters. Sophs-Srs have a 2.0 cutoff.

I really like what MIT does. http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ass_no_record/

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by alum

Carnegie Mellon puts freshmen on academic probation if they fall below a 1.75 for their first 2 semesters. Sophs-Srs have a 2.0 cutoff.

I really like what MIT does. http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ass_no_record/

That's very interesting.

We have "freshman forgiveness" which allows you to retake anything you fail and replace it on your transcript with the better grade (and recalculate your GPA). You have until you reach 30 credits to use it.

So if you get an F in Psych 101, and you retake and get an A, the F is erased from your transcript/GPA calculations and replaced with the A.

[IrishLake]

GCers would never guess...

- that I was also on academic probation (1.5) after my first quarter of college. TOO much partying!
- I secretly want a high adrenaline job - cop, firefighter, storm chaser, rodeo clown, etc.
- At the age of 15, I did a rodeo circuit in Colorado (barrel racing). On one of my days off, I want on a rafting trip down the Colorado River. It was there that I jumped off an 85 foot cliff into the river...biggest wedgie EVER!

- Oh, and my 33 year old, construction worker of a husband, 6'4", 220 lbs, as manly as manly can get, still sleeps with his baby blankie, every single night. He gets mad when I wash it when it starts to smell like dirty socks. It has a name, "Huckie."

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by When Doves Cry

... and still sleep with my baby blanket

see my point?? we are the comfort item generation!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Me, too, except that my kidship predates the Jedi, so it was just magic powers.




I once sang back-up for Barry Manilow in concert.

Well sometime's it's not Jedi powers, depends on what books I'm reading.

And is there video?

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by jennyj87

I was in MA too!! I was in Fall River Weird. I wanted to do the one in RI but they were like "No you're going to MA". I still have that coat pants hat and long sleeve shirt. Its still wicked huge on me.

You were not!! I was in Fall River, December 28, 2001. The woman right before me fell and broke her torch. Did you go to the Hatch Shell in Boston that night?

I still have the outfit too!! I had to get the smallest size as well. I swam in it.

Such a small world...

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I knew a guy who got a 0.0 his first AND second terms of his freshman year. He didn't return for a sophomore year!

We pledged a woman who didn't make her grades the first term, then the second term, so she was automatically depledged. She was so well-liked, though, that she ended up living in the sorority suite for another two years, and signing up, if not showing up, for classes. I often wonder how she had the gall.

[rococobaby]

GC would never know that...

i love video games
i look exactly like my best friend... people get us (and our names) mixed up a lot
i'm in love with jonathan groff. he is my celeb crush of the century!

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AGDee

That's kind of incredible because half of your GC fan club secretly love Barry Manilow.

Fanilows, huh?

Originally Posted by Drolefille

And is there video?

None that I know of.

But we do have pictures (somewhere) of when wife and I were at a luau on the Big Island. Two other guys and I got "picked" from the audience to go up on stage for impromptu dancing. Annie Potts was there as well (this was when "Designing Women" was at the height of its popularity), and as we reluctantly went up to the stage, she yelled "Show us your stuff, boys!"

So . . . I have shown Annie Potts my stuff.

[FHwku]

it may be because it's late, but i think just about everyone here has had something interesting to say.

also, i had no idea that so many of yall sleep with your childhood security blanket/stuffed thing.

[PM_Mama00]

Oh yeah I, too, was on probation but not with school. I messed up one semester which dropped my GPA to a 1.9. My chapter put me on probation and threatened to give me the boot if I didn't raise it over 2.5 so I took 9 Spring credits and rocked it out. Got As and a B and then took a summer class and within one semester raised it back up. I've never worked so hard in my life.

[nikki1920]

I was on academic probation my first year of college-due to mono. Against all advice, I kept that semester's grades, and was kicked out of school the following fall because I missed the cutoff. I did correspondence courses and returned the next summer.

[SydneyK]

I was an excellent pianist when I was younger (I've fallen way out of practice); I played Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G Minor (Op.23, No.5) for my eighth grade piano recital. I chose my undergraduate university based on the reputation of the music department. I was a double major in piano and vocal performance until I realized that my favorite hobby was no longer anything I could turn to as an escape. Almost 20 years later, I'm still glad I made the decision I made, but I miss playing/singing.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

I was a double major in piano and vocal performance until I realized that my favorite hobby was no longer anything I could turn to as an escape.

I know exactly what you mean. I realized that the fun would go out of it if I had to do it to put bread on the table. It's still my favorite hobby, although music is such a part of who I am that I rarely think of it as a hobby.

[MaggieXi]

GC would never guess that...

I have a brain that matches faces with names immediatly. If I learn your name and see your face once - I will always remember it. This was immensly helpful for recruitment!

Also, I am dyslexic and because of that I can not spell at all. Or do math. I never got out of Algebra 2.