Admission with "bad" transcripts - Political Science

polarscribe
Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:28:50 +0000

Send all your transcripts. Be honest. Besides, they will run you through the National Student Clearinghouse and find out.

If you aren’t honest about your academic history, you run the risk of being expelled from the program later and even having your degree retroactively cancelled. Honesty is a key part of academia.

I, too, have a number of Fs on my transcript and a cumulative GPA of about 3.08. But I showed a clear trend of improvement in my senior year, have extensive work experience and had a clearly-defined goal for graduate education. I was accepted at 7 of the 8 institutions I applied to, and ended up enrolling at Indiana University.



sashasnow:

…I would caution you on waiting until after you graduate to take the GRE and apply to graduate schools because they’ll be wondering what you did for a year between graduation and starting graduate school and if you didn’t do something substantial to increase your experience or resume like an internship, that might be looked down upon.

No. No. No. 100% wrong. Sorry to be so blunt and harsh but I want to nip this idea in the bud. Many, many, many people return to graduate school years after they finish their bachelor’s degree. Graduate admissions committees do not care.