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Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
I thought about reading this after i saw the post about law school.
Im currently a Freshman Chemical engineer at Cornell University. My career goals at this point are to work as an entry level engineer for a few years and at somepoint start working into management (this might mean getting MBA a few years down the road). After completing almost the whole first semester i can tell without a doubt i will be below average in all my engineering classes meaning i will graduate with like a 2.4-2.7 GPA. I have friends who are of similar intelligence who are juniors at Clemson university who are making 3.8-4.0s. Financially (I know thats not the only / not the most important consideration) would it make more sense for me to transfer to a state school to save money on tution and get a much higher GPA? It sorta seems like going back to the state school would be the obvious choice but at the same time i have to think that 5 years down the road nobody will care what my GPA is and they will either see Cornell or Clemson on my resume. Any thoughts are welcome. |
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
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5 years down the road nobody will care what my GPA is and they will either see Cornell or Clemson on my resume. [/ QUOTE ] Very true. |
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
I guess the real question i have is will i be able to get a decent job with a 2.4 GPA. I try to ask career services but they havent gotten back to me yet
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
I'm not sure about Cornell, but the access to companies through on-campus recruiting at Berkeley greatly exceeds those of large CA state schools.
+better access to more companies +likely recruiters know how tough your major is / lower avg gpa -bring up your gpa I sometimes wish I went to Cornell over Berkeley. |
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
Problem is there are going to be 40 ChemEs with better GPA's than me. I guess i should start taking some econ classes to get the GPA up.
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
I would stay at Cornell and try my best to get the grades up.
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
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I guess the real question i have is will i be able to get a decent job with a 2.4 GPA. I try to ask career services but they havent gotten back to me yet [/ QUOTE ] Now, I'm no statistician, but I'd assume that as a freshman you'd have lots of time to bring your GPA up. Maybe you're just lazy or undisciplined? If thats the case, your question is really, "do you guys think that I should switch to a school where you can be lazy and undisciplined and still make good grades?" Thats a whole other question that I don't know the answer to. |
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
Spex, its not a matter of laziness, its a matter of intelligence at this point. Before a test a can do all of the homework/practice problems we have been assigned but that isnt enough to make a 3.0, in my experience so far the tests havent been measuring understanding of material but instead have been measuring intelligence and how fast you can do a computation.
All the grading here is comparitive it seems so no matter how well i know the stuff my grade will be based on how smart the people around me are. |
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
Also related to that, in the areas where shear effort can get you grades i do better than almost anyone.
I get better grades on labs and papers than almost anyone I know. |
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Re: Career Question- State School vs. Big Private
Stay at Cornell.
Get ur GPA to 3.0 ??? Profit! |
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