Work your ass off your first year at college.

[stinkyattic]

Universities sometimes overaccept -shit, 'sometimes'; WTF am I thinking- USUALLY overaccept because they can kick out all the underacheivers the first year and keep their tuition! And the big freshman lecture classes are a cash cow for the university since they are often taught by a TA or have like 400 students in them. Call me cynical, but for example UMass Amherst has a terrible rep for enrolling so many freshmen that they have to be housed in motels and on the floors of dorm lounges!!! And the US military academies have an expected dropout/kickout rate of up to 50% of the freshman class. So study and don't be a statistic. BTW your freshman year is the easiest year to get a high GPA because the big classes are straightforward and anyone who puts in some effort can make out like a bandit... wait until Junior year when you're in your major... woo hoo, forget having ANY time to party and still get good grades!!!

[Gasper02]

I agree, get the best grades you can your first year and even the second year b/c it only gets tougher, alot tougher! once you reach the upper level division classes things start to suck. i will be graduating in may of next year and cant wait!

[suhl]

Universities sometimes overaccept -shit, 'sometimes'; WTF am I thinking- USUALLY overaccept because they can kick out all the underacheivers the first year and keep their tuition! And the big freshman lecture classes are a cash cow for the university since they are often taught by a TA or have like 400 students in them. Call me cynical, but for example UMass Amherst has a terrible rep for enrolling so many freshmen that they have to be housed in motels and on the floors of dorm lounges!!! And the US military academies have an expected dropout/kickout rate of up to 50% of the freshman class. So study and don't be a statistic. BTW your freshman year is the easiest year to get a high GPA because the big classes are straightforward and anyone who puts in some effort can make out like a bandit... wait until Junior year when you're in your major... woo hoo, forget having ANY time to party and still get good grades!!!

yes, that is because a lot universities are far far more concerned with getting the money than kids learning, that is one thing being at college has taught me more anything

[JaggedEdge]

Universities sometimes overaccept -shit, 'sometimes'; WTF am I thinking- USUALLY overaccept because they can kick out all the underacheivers the first year and keep their tuition! And the big freshman lecture classes are a cash cow for the university since they are often taught by a TA or have like 400 students in them. Call me cynical, but for example UMass Amherst has a terrible rep for enrolling so many freshmen that they have to be housed in motels and on the floors of dorm lounges!!! And the US military academies have an expected dropout/kickout rate of up to 50% of the freshman class. So study and don't be a statistic. BTW your freshman year is the easiest year to get a high GPA because the big classes are straightforward and anyone who puts in some effort can make out like a bandit... wait until Junior year when you're in your major... woo hoo, forget having ANY time to party and still get good grades!!!

Haha, yeah mine accepts pretty much anybody. The freshman class usually seems to make up about 40% of the entire schools population. Most of the professors are understanding at the school I go to and usually will not fail someone in biology if they are an english major and just trying to get their required bio 101 out the way. That is assuming you show up to class and turn in what is expected of you when it is due.

They fucked me with math though. They show professors names for every other class but the math classes. My first semester I had the best math professor who taught me I actually earned and A in that class and have never made an A in math in my life. Now when you register though the have a TBA for all the Math professors. I have dropped the class 2 times now because I got stuck with some dick who can't teach. I'm sorry, but as a college student I should have the right to choose which professor I want to take.

[stinkyattic]

I had a bad problem with a calculus professor too... It was a combination of several factors; He was about 70, a German who had been living in Argentina like FOREVER so you can only imaging the accent when he was speaking English, he mumbled in the way that really old people do, and when he was writing out equations on the overhead projector his handwriting was so bad as to be totally illegible.. he should have just handed things over to his TA.

[JaggedEdge]

I had a bad problem with a calculus professor too... It was a combination of several factors; He was about 70, a German who had been living in Argentina like FOREVER so you can only imaging the accent when he was speaking English, he mumbled in the way that really old people do, and when he was writing out equations on the overhead projector his handwriting was so bad as to be totally illegible.. he should have just handed things over to his TA.

Haha, I had a buisness class like that. The guy was a graduate student from Africa. He had been in America for about 4 years now and his accent was so strong I couldn't understand anything. He would write the important things on the board but no one could read his hand writing. Finally I went up to him after class and asked him if he would man making a few power points or handouts with just an out line of what we were going over, he did and I passed easily. Really chill guy, I actually liked him once I was able to understand what was going on in the class. He had a lot of interessting stories.

It always seems with people like that you can understand the stories that have nothing to do with the class, but have no clue what they said when they are going over what will be on an exam.