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Worried about an old grade coming back to potentially halt my Ph.D graduation. How can I address my concern? [closed]
I am currently an ABD doctoral candidate at my current Ph.D program in Experimental Psychology. Long story short, I got a C+ in a core class during my Master's program (Research Methods) back in Fall ...
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Worried about Ws (withdrawals) on transcript and letters of reccomendation for a masters program
Disclaimer: W stands for withdrawal, it’s when a student withdrawals from a course regardless of grades after a certain deadline for course changes.
I graduated from a Big10 Engineering school with a ...
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How to explain missing grade on transcript
I am an undergraduate mathematics student in the United States. I'm applying to many REUs in a certain topic. My only coursework in this topic is a graduate-level course I took last year. However, for ...
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Will UK/US universities understand that in my country, it is common to deliberately fail and retake classes?
I wanna apply for Master’s programs at LSE and Oxbridge starting next year. I’m currently on completing my undergraduate studies, have the equivalent of a first-class honours will most likely graduate ...
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Will pass/no pass grades in an extracurricular affect graduate school admissions?
I work for the student newspaper on campus and as a part of it we take a class. On my transcripts, it is listed as Independent Study, and I take it every quarter Pass/No Pass simply because it's an ...
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Is there a better measure of undergraduate academic performance than GPA?
An answer to a recent question about the importance of looking at a student's whole transcript got me thinking. Is there some other way of summing up a student's academic performance, other than the ...
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Why does an admissions committee need to look at the whole transcript?
Admissions committees look at a student's entire transcript to get an understanding of their academic abilities. Why is it not sufficient to judge a student's academics based on GPA alone?
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How does a graduate admissions committee consider junior/senior grades that are not yet available?
When transcripts are submitted as part of your graduate admission's package, how can the graduate admissions staff consider your junior/senior grades, when your applying to the program a year in ...
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Do graduate admissions simply see the 'letter grades' for a course, or can they see the numeric grade and/or exam scores, too?
Not a long question, but I'm curious if grad school admissions (I'm more concerned with master's programs instead of PhD programs, right now) take into account only the letter scores of courses taken (...
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What is a "provisional transcript, stating your provisional grades"?
I am set to do a masters degree in the UK starting in mid September this year. It is exactly one year long.
I intend to do another masters after it which begins in October next year.
The structure of ...
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What can I do when my transcripts have mistakes?
My transcripts contain a mistake on the grade I took for a course. I applied before two months to change me the grade but the process is slow. Until now nothing has changed and I need to apply for ...
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Will a dropped class hurt PhD application?
I'm currently in a Master's program for mathematics and I want to apply for a PhD.
I'm thinking of dropping one of my classes because it requires a final project which will be very time consuming. (...
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Old transcripts for Grad application
I thought of applying for master's in US universities in 2011 for fall 2012. So, I had taken official transcripts from my college. But, I didn't apply then.
I'm thinking of applying this year for ...
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