Grad school admission with rocky transcript

juillet
Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:02:57 +0000

If you are projected to graduate with a 3.88 (or really, anything over a 3.5) despite the difficulties you had in your first year, that means you did very well in your last 2-3 years and I doubt that your freshman performance will have a significant impact on your admissions. I agree with @xraymancs - get a close advisor to write about this in their letters, explaining that you had some health issues that caused you problems but that you are an excellent student and a promising researcher.

I think you still sound like a strong applicant.