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Reminder to CSUEB freshmen: bad grades will haunt you

Sally Murphy

Sally Murphy

  • January 31, 2011 5:07am
San Francisco Chronicle reporter Nanette Asimov wrote a cautionary tale for college students in her article, “Bad college grades a tough record to shake.”

Asimov profiled a 37-year-old student excited to become a nurse after years as a caregiver but her grade-point average of 1.5 earned as a freshman now impacts her chances for nursing school and disqualifies her for key grants and scholarships.

"We try to make this one of our biggest, loudest messages," said Sally Murphy, CSUEB’s director of general education and freshman programs, who was interviewed for the article.  "The grades you get in freshman year will follow you all your life. Students need to make sure they don't dig an academic hole they can't get out of."

Read the article.

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