Admission with "bad" transcripts - Political Science

sashasnow
Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:36:27 +0000

I can’t say specifically whether or not they’d blow you off if you included them or be upset that you lied by omission in not providing the transcripts, but I can give you some advice my professor gave me about applying to graduate school.

He said the thing most programs would be looking at is your GRE scores and your GPA for your last 60 credit hours as a measure of your performance and ability to handle graduate level coursework and research.

I’m not sure about your situation but 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.