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Non matriculated Student Grad School?

Taking classes (say 2) as a non-matriculated grad student and achieving A's in all classes.......ensures acceptance (usually) into the respective graduate program?

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  • DrIG
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    It does not work that way. Two A's or more that are not even counted do not make for acceptance.

  • 5 years ago

    I can see now what you're up against. What I might suggest is the following: - First, you need to get help to work through your problems re: being successful on exams. That may mean you need a private tutor, or to go into counselling. You've got to figure out what the issues are, and if possible, begin to deal with them. - Second, once you begin working on that, my suggestion is that you compile a "secondary transcript". This is you taking several, several upper division undergraduate courses that are related to the field you hope to study in grad school, and acing them. That's why you need to deal with the exam issues first, because you need to ace these classes. You'd want a 3.5 or higher on each class, with no retakes, no withdrawals. Once you've taken and aced many upper division undergrad classes (not grad classes - upper division undergrad), you apply to grad programs. Overall, your GPA may still be below that 3.0 threshold, but it'll be closer, and you'll also point to the significant amount of upper division coursework you've more recently done as your "secondary transcript" - as proof that you can handle the grad level work. I know it seems weird that you wouldn't take grad classes to do this, but it's upper division undergrad that the grad schools recommend to people in your situation. If you find some grad programs that you like, talk to them about this option re: the secondary transcript, and see what they think. Some schools may be willing to consider you - others still will not.

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