Highlighting low GPA reasons in grad school application

Poeme
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:35:28 +0000

I don’t think you should explicitly mention grades. I did put in my statement however that there was a semester I took to difficult math courses I wasn’t ready for and I realized during the semester that I had overloaded. I didn’t frame it in terms of grades, the point I made was even though I didn’t get as much out of the classes then, I still learned a lot about the material in other contexts after the class was over. I think this must have worked very well. Got into 5 top ten schools and am going to Harvard.