(06-09-2017 01:38 PM)owlsfan Wrote:  "He's been on academic suspension twice in 3 years. Why would he come back to school if he's drafted anywhere? "

To get the GPA back to an acceptable level?

(06-09-2017 02:43 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-09-2017 02:37 PM)texd Wrote:  Having started in a hole with a less than stellar freshman academic year (hello academic advisor, "this schedule of orgo, vector, and physics seems very difficult, but if you think you can do it then okay" is not good advice for an incoming freshman), I can assure you that the returns from such attempts are marginal at best.

If raising your undergrad gpa is the goal, you're better off switching to another school where (1) the grades don't come quite so hard and (2) you're kind of starting from scratch, at least with regards to the new school. That way, if you have to share your GPA on an application, you can share your combined gpa (which will be higher than if you stayed). Additionally, if you have enough credits accumulated at Rice, you can complete your Rice degree with transfer credits. If you still don't have enough credits (or enough upper-level credits) at Rice, then you're likely not too far from the 48-54 credits remaining which most state schools require be done on their campus in order to get a degree from them, and might as well straight-up transfer (where your transcript will show transfer credits from Rice as P/F and will exclude them from GPA calculation).

Wish I had known this in 1965.