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purpose of good grades in college?
in high school we needed good grades to get into college but in college, what are good grades good for besides maintaining a scholarship and not getting kicked out of school/your program? do employers see your college gpa?
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Employers do see your college GPA, which should be written on your resume under all the other information. If you're trying to get a job, it looks good to have a high GPA, but in the end, it's what you have to offer as a person that matters most. My brother didn't do all that well in college, but ended up getting a pretty decent job and has worked his way up with a lot of hard work.
GPA does matter if you're trying to get into a good graduate school or professional program (law, medicine, dentistry). Other things count too, such as exam scores, extracurricular activities, life experiences, etc., but your GPA is a major component. My sister ended up struggling to get into even one dental school due to a low undergraduate GPA. She had high exam score, lots of extracurricular and work experience, but really had a hard time proving herself because her GPA was low. In many cases, even if you have a high GPA, you have to work very hard due to high competition. But really, high GPA is the first step. It isn't worth it to slack off in college and get bad grades- it can easily catch up to you.
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If you don't pull at least a C-average, the college can put you on academic probation. If you get down to a D-average, they consider (and possibly do) expel you. If you are failing for more than one semester, you're out of there.
If you want to go to graduate school, you need to keep up an A/B average.
Employers can look at your college information if they want to. I'm sure they would look at your cumulative GPA rather than individual grades, but you never know...
I'm in college now, and to get good grades, all you have to do is actually go to class (that's the hardest part!) and pay attention/do the work.
It's much easier to pull an A in college than it ever was in high school as long as you get up and actually go to class.
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Graduate schools look at gpa's. I'm not sure about employers - they might look at an overall gpa if you're going into certain fields, but I highly doubt they look at individual class grades.
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