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How to keep your grades up to A's and B's?

Is a 3.389 a good college GPA for someone who majored in BS Chemistry (ACS certified)?

  • I just finished attending college last week as a n eventual BS Chem grad with option in Forensic Science and my last final grades indicate that I have 2 A's (P-Chem and Criminal Justice) and 2 B-'s (Instrumental Analysis and Genetics--I HATE biology!). Anyway, before that my GPA was 3.407. I fought so hard to keep it that way but I guess it was not enough. I am planning to attend the same school as a grad student (majoring in MS Chem) next winter quarter (Jan 2013) as it has only a 2.7 minimum gpa requirement and GRE is not required either...and the fact that it is the closest one in our area. Is my GPA good enough for an internship and/or an entry level job in the crime lab? I also have no outside college lab experience right now...which is why I am hoping to land an internship soon.

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    It kind of depends on the level of grade inflation at the college and in the Chemistry major. In general, unless it is an elite private university with typical, highly inflated grades, which it does not sound like from the description of admission to the graduate program, that is a very good Gpa for a Chemistry major. http://www.gradeinflation.com/ Good Luck!

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It kind of depends on the level of grade inflation at the college and in the Chemistry major. In general, unless it is an elite private university with typical, highly inflated grades, which it does not sound like from the description of admission to the graduate program, that is a very good Gpa for a Chemistry major. http://www.gradeinflation.com/ Good Luck!

Tom

Study and take the GRE. There is a lot of financial aid where you just work the summer. You can study and relax, while other GAs are teaching the difference between bleach and aspirin to freshmen.

DocManhattan

Yes, that's a good solid B+ average. I honestly don't know if it's good enough for a crime lab job. It should be, and the only reason you might not get an entry level job is if some one with higher GPS was competing with you for the same job. It isn't always the person with the highest GPA who gets a job. GPA is not the only criteria for graduate school, internships, or jobs. I was accepted to graduate school on basis of my GRE aptitude scores not because of my GPA or GRE geology scores. Apparently i had the highest composite GRE of any DOMESTIC applicant that the School of Geology & Geophysics (University of Oklahoma) had ever had at that time. I was admitted for spring, 1981.

oklatonola

Yes, that's a good solid B+ average. I honestly don't know if it's good enough for a crime lab job. It should be, and the only reason you might not get an entry level job is if some one with higher GPS was competing with you for the same job. It isn't always the person with the highest GPA who gets a job. GPA is not the only criteria for graduate school, internships, or jobs. I was accepted to graduate school on basis of my GRE aptitude scores not because of my GPA or GRE geology scores. Apparently i had the highest composite GRE of any DOMESTIC applicant that the School of Geology & Geophysics (University of Oklahoma) had ever had at that time. I was admitted for spring, 1981.

oklatonola

Study and take the GRE. There is a lot of financial aid where you just work the summer. You can study and relax, while other GAs are teaching the difference between bleach and aspirin to freshmen.

DocManhattan

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