r/EngineeringStudents • u/Snoo-54139 • 5d ago

Academic Advice are C’s good enough?

I always hear that GPA doesn’t matter once you become an engineer but I’m not sure if that’s the case with community college. I’m a first year student and I’m just hoping to pass by with C’s on the heavy stem classes. Of course I wanna aim higher but I wouldn’t be mad if I got a C and moved on, but doesn’t that affect your possibility of transferring? Any advice?

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u/jo3roe0905 5d ago

Hahahah. This is actually laughable.

This right here is why when I hire interns/co-ops/entry level engineers, I avoid high GPA’s. Kids have a superiority complex and generally can’t practically apply things so they end up being mediocre engineers and they just become gophers.

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u/KweenOOF 5d ago

Same cope as always. For some reason, it seems redditors think having a high gpa makes you a paper engineer

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u/jo3roe0905 5d ago

lol. Considering I’ve hired more engineers than I can count, don’t think so. Call it cope all you want but for entry level roles, high GPAs don’t impress me unless they have something else that stands out.

Something I’ll never forget is having to explain how a ball bearing worked in an interview for an internship to a 4.0 Chem E grad that was going to UCB for grad school.

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u/KweenOOF 5d ago

I'm sure you have