2nd Undergrad Degree Admissions

badgolfer
Thu, 28 May 2009 15:53:05 +0000

It seems strange to me that I’m alone in finishing a bachelors and wanting to retract it. I’m in a worse situation that a flunky. As I mentioned, an academic pariah. I’m not willing to take a 2nd rate graduate program just because I was unwise at 18.

There are some people who need a 2nd bachelor’s because their career aspirations change and they need the specific technical training a bachelors provides in order to get into the career. For example someone interested in nursing, engineering, etc.

This is not the case here. You just want another bachelors degree in order to erase the past; you didn’t do as well as you (now) think you could have, so you want a do-over. Not only isn’t this the same as looking for specific training, you still don’t even know what you want to do!! I mean here you are 2 years out of college and its “maybe I want grad school, maybe law school, maybe I’ll be an astronaut” . Tick tock, tick tock, time is slipping away and maybe you should decide what you want to do with your life.

It’s fuzzy & wishful thinking that if you somehow had a better undergrad GPA you’d have all these wonderful options open to you and the future would become bright and happy (no “2nd rate graduate program” for you!). Not the case. If there actually was something you wanted to do there are plenty of options to do it right now, today. You can go to grad school (of course that would mean actually picking a field to study), you can go to law school. Maybe you don’t get into Boalt or Stanford, but there are plenty of successful lawyers who didn’t go there either.

The real problem here is twofold: first, that you don’t know what you want to do, and you’ve figured out a way to spend/waste the next 2 or 3 years of your life pursuing some intermediate goal and avoid having to make any real decisions. Second, that you still hold the notion of a “magic” degree we see on this forum in so many HS kids, except in your case instead of Ivy undergrad you think that a law/grad degree from Prestige U (once you make up your mind what goal to pursue) is going to guarantee you a great future.