Bela's 1.4 GPA
Edit: Her GPA is 1.8, sorry lol
I love that Bela is taking her FAF duties seriously and I like how less crude she is this season, but the low GPA needs to be addressed. I think because she has a lot of freedom, she's less motivated academically. There was a storyline in Never Have I Ever where the smartest girl, Blair, who went to Sherman Oaks lost her drive to want to study since she didn't have her parents to push her, and as her grades kept slipping, she couldn't stay at Princeton. Bela is similar in this case because her parents probably forced her into doing science-based subjects in high school and she faced a huge academic burnout once she got into Essex.
That academic advisor woman told her that Bela couldn't transfer and her options were to come back in the fall and improve her grades.
So far, we've seen Kimberly and Whitney in classes. Even Leighton was already starting math classes before she left, so why was there no mention of what classes Bela was taking? It's like the main thing on why she has to stay at Essex.
The only thing we've gotten is a small remark in episode 3 where Bela says "I'm in favour of dropping a and all classes." We do see that she was writing something in a notebook, but it never gets addressed whether it was for a FAF thing or if she was actually doing school work.
Season 3 Episode 5 is a 'Parents Weekend' episode, so hopefully this will give us more clarity on the situation. We know that Bela's mom and dad will make a reappearance, so hopefully, the GPA will ACTUALLY be addressed in this episode. Even if her parents don't find out, I hope that it at least gets talked about.