<p>If you have a strong gpa in your UG major, you can sometimes get into some grad program. But, for the sorts of questions you have been asking, all along, it seems like you do not, nor that you have a great relationship with the profs who need to recommend you.</p>
<p>Grad school is not the UG buffet, where you sample classes, maybe move into a upper level class in some topics. It’s not about going to class, seeing what you take from it. Grad school in humanities is about a specialty focus. If you don’t have a focus in which you have purposefully and unquestionably excelled so far, you lose your attraction to the speciality profs in the grad program who seek to pick excellent new admits to mentor. Their own reps can be greatly affected by their quality of their grad students.</p>
<p>Unlike some experiences, this one is not about indulging yourself. </p>
<p>What smart people with low records do is get field experience- a job that requires relevant research and analytical skills, take on focused independent research, etc, then apply in a few years.</p>