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Old 11-09-2007, 06:01 PM
surftheiop surftheiop is offline
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Default 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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Old 11-09-2007, 06:03 PM
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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.


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Very true.
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Old 11-09-2007, 06:14 PM
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Default 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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Old 11-09-2007, 06:18 PM
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Default 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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Old 11-09-2007, 06:23 PM
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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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Old 11-09-2007, 06:52 PM
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I would stay at Cornell and try my best to get the grades up.
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Old 11-29-2007, 10:17 AM
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Default 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

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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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Old 11-29-2007, 12:35 PM
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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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Old 11-29-2007, 12:38 PM
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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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Old 11-09-2007, 06:09 PM
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Stay at Cornell.
Get ur GPA to 3.0
???
Profit!
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