Non genius applicants

Aubstopper
Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:58:05 +0000

I would consider myself ‘average’ for this board in regards to GPA and GRE scores. I had awful GRE scores 1100 4.5W (i can’t afford those stupid classes), and my GPA of barely a 3.4 from UCLA would be laughable here (though my major GPA was 3.7). I tried very hard to get all the experience that I could in my field and try to distinguish myself outside of the grades/gpa category.

I study middle east studies so i took off a year and traveled the middle east, taking intensive language classes, did an internship with a middle east thinktank, lots of community service stuff (in the middle east), and when i got back to UCLA i decided to pick up yet another language. Now, I got into most of the schools i applied to including UChicago, UMichigan, Boston University, and Columbia…and i’m going to UChicago in the fall on scholarship…

so if you want it bad enough, you can have it :-)