college help: Is it worse for a student to flunk out of college or to graduate college with a 2.5 GPA? - Help.com

Flunk by far, some places only look to see if you passed college and never care about the gpa. And why are you making so many posts about random questions. Post them all on the same post.

It’s definitely worse to flunk out. When you flunk out, you have, in essence, given up. But you didn’t simply give up…you gave up with apathy and didn’t even TRY.

Far worse to flunk. Many people don’t look at the gpa, and unless you’re going to grad school 2.5 is fine.

It’s far worse to flunk than to graduate with a 2.5.

Why are you so obsessed with GPAs and stuff like that. If you are really worried about your grades then I suggest you log off of help.com and start studying. That really is the only way your grades are going to improve. Good luck!

Daft Puck wrote:
Why are you so obsessed with GPAs and stuff like that. If you are really worried about your grades then I suggest you log off of help.com and start studying. That really is the only way your grades are going to improve. Good luck!

From the other post, it’s a parent who is disappointed that her daughter graduated with a GPA of 2.5

I can’t believe that if the parent was involved in the daughter’s life…they wouldn’t have known BEFORE graduation that the grades were slipping.

This whole case sounds like to me that it was an absentee parent, leaving the kid to go to college and deal with that all on their own; and then when the kid finally graduated, the parent was disappointed in the kid’s (young adult’s) performance.

Parent: Should have taken on a more supportive role if you wanted to see your child graduate with flying colors.

That aside, be glad she DID graduate.

As Mr Sherpen states, a GPA really only matters if you are going to grad school. And even then a GPA of lower than 3.0 isn’t necessarily a deal breaker. When I went to grad school, my GPA was a 3.01. On the application, there were several things that were considered for someone to be admitted:

Interview
Letters of Recommendation
GPA
Work Experience
Volunteer Experience
Essay
Types of Classes taken in undergrad
etc….

Pep with a JellyBean wrote:

Daft Puck wrote:
Why are you so obsessed with GPAs and stuff like that. If you are really worried about your grades then I suggest you log off of help.com and start studying. That really is the only way your grades are going to improve. Good luck!

From the other post, it’s a parent who is disappointed that her daughter graduated with a GPA of 2.5

I can’t believe that if the parent was involved in the daughter’s life…they wouldn’t have known BEFORE graduation that the grades were slipping.

This whole case sounds like to me that it was an absentee parent, leaving the kid to go to college and deal with that all on their own; and then when the kid finally graduated, the parent was disappointed in the kid’s (young adult’s) performance.

Parent: Should have taken on a more supportive role if you wanted to see your child graduate with flying colors.

That aside, be glad she DID graduate.

As Mr Sherpen states, a GPA really only matters if you are going to grad school. And even then a GPA of lower than 3.0 isn’t necessarily a deal breaker. When I went to grad school, my GPA was a 3.01. On the application, there were several things that were considered for someone to be admitted:

Interview
Letters of Recommendation
GPA
Work Experience
Volunteer Experience
Essay
Types of Classes taken in undergrad
etc….

In any event, they need to quit spamming help with posts asking about their (or their daughter’s) GPA. It’s again the rules here and could amount to them being banned.