Low GPA's and Grad School

nicacar
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:56:21 +0000

Thank you ticklemepink. I appreciate your feedback very much. It has been encouraging.

I have four years of Arabic, and three years of Turkish. I will be applying for FLAS in Turkish. My writing sample includes Arabic primary sources, but lack of access to Turkish sources meant that I could not incorporate those. Maybe, I should include some secondary Turkish literature.

I was thinking of not explaining my GPA as well, since I don’t really have a good excuse, but my main concern is making sure that I pass the initial screening based on GREs and GPA. I hadn’t realized that most schools have ‘cut-offs.’

I have no publications, but have presented once. I am hopefully going to meet a potential advisor at a conference in November. Perhaps, that might help, especially since my undergrad advisor is on the same discussion panel as the Professor I want to meet. What is your field and academic background, ticklemepink?

Again, thank you for your help.