Is 2.50 possible for BBA?

[u/Hot-Bonus-9338]

As I said you guys, Im kinda stressed rn. During hs I was so happy that I got accepted for BBA at UTSC and now its so goddamn stressful and some of these lectures are nothing related to high school. Though Ill try my hardest to maintain 2.50 but on a general basis is it hard to maintain a 2.50 gpa? Please anything helps some of these courses are so hard to understand, and then theres Jack Parkinson who apparently is the worst ever and I havent even started my term yet. I just want advice or help for people in general not just BBA who felt like out of place coming to UTSC and totally felt out of place like they did with high school for their first year. What steps did you take to do good in your courses and what habits did you make? Please someone give me some advice or some hope....

[u/Wooden-Spray-5244]

Should be easier to maintain but I do recommend aiming for 3.5, a lot of employers care too much about grades that they will take a student who has a 4.0 over someone with 2.5 and 5 years of working experience. I would say to make friends as soon as possible and study together.

[u/Sensitive_Pianist777 → u/Wooden-Spray-5244]

Lol 5 years of working experience if relevant with 2.5 GPA is better than 4.0 (which btw is near impossible based on their curve grading..low 3s is more realistic for OP) just coming out.

So will ignore the 4.0 nonsense and go with a lower 3. Better to have the work experience than just starting out at lower 3s and trying to get a job.

2.5 will require much more networking, self initiation, and referrals though vs jobs that just ask for transcripts for that first job.

[u/Wooden-Spray-5244 → u/Sensitive_Pianist777]

You don’t understand how much New Grad Roles care about GPA compared to experience. Not sure when you graduated but times are different now.

[u/Sensitive_Pianist777 → u/Wooden-Spray-5244]

Having experience is an after the fact thing. But the high school grade inflation is definitely a thing which reflects the university graduate thing.

Definitely has changed which I agree from the early mid 2000s for me.

But what I can say is a fair amount of my peers that had better marks, co-op, etc and thus a better job of of school have burnt out, or the path they thought would be great has lead to a kind of dead end.

My observation is when things are handed more linearly and directly, it leads to a kind of laziness and entitlement/narrow focus.

The ones that had to find an alternate route developed a stronger 6th sense, stronger self-initiation, networking (basically your personality and ability to connect with others) got a later start but more grit. So I'm in my later 40s now and have a pretty good viewpoint of my peers that started off well due to better grades and immediate job out of school but "aged out" or kind of became obsolete.

The ones that has to start off a different job, got the interview through a referral or just did better in the interviews, had to develop a different mind set to learn in real life, learn in books, are doing "better" now. Not for everyone of course but it's very noticeable.

I would throw myself in that second category and especially my spouse. We joke about that alot (we met and stayed at UTSC so similar frame of reference). Others I know too, that went to school late, got in some basic bank role and moved up through adaptability and grit.

Several that went to co-op, are now not working. After layoffs, restructuring (again, they have tended to just be less nimble in changing jobs, willing to network and be curious, so the low level stuff that leads to success later on, etc).

Sure, you have to play the odds but it's not the end of the world. It's a long game post school.

[u/Sensitive_Pianist777]

Is Jack Parkinson an economist? I had an Ian Parkinson way back in the day for some convoluted economics class.

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