What Should I Say About A Bad Gpa?
This Question Is From: Pharmacy Technician Schools in Pennsylvania and has 2 Answers
I’m going to be graduating from college in May with a pretty bad GPA (2.84), although I’m admittedly in a difficult major (Bioengineering) in a tough school (University of Pennsylvania). I was involved in school activities, but not to a degree where I could use it as an excuse, and I didn’t work during the school year.
Although I know that after I get my first job/go to grad school the slate will be wiped clean, my GPA is a big obstacle to that first step. Now I’m applying to pharmacy schools and looking for jobs, but I’m terrified that someone will ask me why my GPA is so bad and I won’t have any idea what to say (it was really hard doesn’t really cut it).
anyone have any advice?
and thanks 
This low GPA WILL haunt you for about 10 years.
The salary in your first professional job will take your GPA into account. It won’t be until you have 5-10 years of professional experience that the GPA will no longer be an issue.
Your slate will not be wiped clean. Forthe rest of your life in many jobs you will have to submit your transcript and the people hiring you will see it. The transcript will become less important IF in the future you correct the bad habits that led to this dismal performance in the first place. It will definitely affect your admission to grad school and your eligibility for grants and scholarships, and I’d say you could forget about pharmacy school – no one gets into pharm school with a 2.8 these days. (ifyou check the website of the AACP their data shows that over 100,000 kids applied to colleges of pharmacy last year and only 10,000 degrees were awarded. So that tells you what the competition for those programs is like.)
If you imagine yourself having some kind of career in this area, you need to validate your academic skills and work skills by entering the best bioeng MS program you can find and getting nothing less than an A in your grad program. THe best you can find might turn out to be Podunk State, but that’s what you have done to yourself by getting all those C’s.