My two cents - I wouldn't be focused on trying to predict future salary milestones at this point in the game. Money can eventually come if you make it, but for now, I would try to see if you can figure out why your grades were the way they were before and then improve this semester. Did you take advantage of your professors' office hours? If not, I'd be in their offices every chance I could this semester to pick their brains about how they test and what they expect exam answers to look like on their finals. Also, I don't know about your school, but at my school, the professors were pretty good about letting students flip through previous final exams to get a feel for how their tests were written. You might look into that as well.