High School GPA

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by YesNoMaybe

I'm just gonna pop in to say I think some majors are considered "easy". Hell, I'm doing Communication Studies and I find myself bored in the classes because it's (so far) not a far step up from what I learned in high school. I don't do the readings, and I still have managed to pull in all A's or B+'s at worst, and I am not a natural Einstein. If I did the same strategy as an Engineering student, I wouldn't be in college.

There are majors that people can take to get through college easier, although I think 'skating' by is an overstatement because all that i know of require midterms and papers that ask of effort. I think it would be silly to take a major that you know you will succeed in without working hard because that mentality will transfer over to post-college with jobs. And GPA is becoming increasingly one of the most important things to getting a job anyway... so easy major or not, just graduating isn't going to cut it.

What year are you? "Intro to Communications" =/= "Communication Theory"

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

What year are you? "Intro to Communications" =/= "Communication Theory"

This. First year biology major was cake for me, I went to a good high school and got good grades and had AP classes so Chem 110-115, Intro to Biology, etc. were all pretty straight forward reviews of what I knew already. Microbiology... yeah not so much.

My Psych degree was similar, I hated Psych 101 it was so utterly boring, but African-American Psych, Psychopharm, Physiological Pych, Developmental Psych, all were more complex and much 'harder.' Similarly the humanities requirements - 300 Level English was more interesting but much more 'difficult' than my 100 level comp class - and electives increased in difficulty.

Funny how it works like that, almost like those numbers imply some sort of.. increasing level of difficulty as the years go on. Not to mention that people are attracted to fields that they like and generally find those fields 'easier' if only because of their interest level.

[YesNoMaybe]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

What year are you? "Intro to Communications" =/= "Communication Theory"

I'm in the "Upper Level Classes" which is more of the academic research/theory based classes. I'm a sophomore, but taking classes that juniors take. Our program isn't noted for being one of the best at my school, or a top communication studies program, but I notice people seem to pick it when they "didn't know what major to pick so I just picked one" around their junior year.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by YesNoMaybe

I'm in the "Upper Level Classes" which is more of the academic research/theory based classes. I'm a sophomore, but taking classes that juniors take. Our program isn't noted for being one of the best at my school, or a top communication studies program, but I notice people seem to pick it when they "didn't know what major to pick so I just picked one" around their junior year.

That's a reflection of your school, not that major.

The Communications programs at schools like UT are not cakewalks, so encouraging people to use them as an "easy way out" is not a good idea.