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It's unfortunate to see people disadvantaged by pursuing a truly difficult major. A 2.97 in bioengineering could represent someone who simply took more challen
by phobosanomaly 6y ago
It's unfortunate to see people disadvantaged by pursuing a truly difficult major.
A 2.97 in bioengineering could represent someone who simply took more challenging courses, and got lower grades because the courses were truly difficult.
A straight bio major might have a 3.8, but never had to work through a year-long Pchem sequence, instead padding with softer, more grade-inflated courses.
- fma 6y agoThe GPA is an interesting system when you sit down to think about it. I came into college with almost 30 general education credit hours. I received the International Baccalaureate diploma in high school. I only needed 1 more gen ed course to fulfill my requirements. So imagine me, a 18 year old jumping immediately into fairly difficult courses my freshman year...adapting to college. Whilst my peers are taking English 101 and inflating their GPA. I did not receive internships offers my early years in college and I feel this had a big part of it.