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Can You Raise a Bad GPA?

Thursday December 1, 2005
I graduated about 5 years ago and only recently decided to go back to graduate school. The program I want to go to asks for a 3.5 and I only had a 2.5... Has anyone been in a similar situation? Can taking classes at a local university raise your GPA? Is there anything I can do to get into this program? Discuss.

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February 14, 2007 at 2:16 am
(1) Ignacio says:

I dont know, but I have a 2.532 GPA, and I have one year left in school. If I make straight A’s this semester, and Straight A’s next semester, I figured out my GPA will turn into 2.833. So the math works, and if you like maybe you can do some calculations how will getting some classes will raise your grades. Maybe a semester at college can raise your grades to 2.7, I depends on the amount of classes taken, but i might be, so the advise is for one thing you can do the math and see…

January 31, 2008 at 10:46 am
(2) Maya says:

Hello my gpa is 2.6714 and i sooooo sad im not smart my dream is to be a fashion designer and to go to howard in there fashion program or to new york to go to a design school

but i cant do that with a bad gpa what can i do to raise my gpa ?
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