The brown eyed girl looked around in frustration and confusion. She had done what they had told her to do, so why was nothing working out the way she had planned? She had gone to a top ten university, worked through her four years getting a lot of work experience, and tried as hard as she could to get good grades. However, this wasn't good enough. As it would happen, life got in the way. After getting cancer and being really sick for a while, her GPA went down from a nearly perfect 4.0 to 2.5. She got it up to 2.75, but that isn't good enough. Everywhere she looked graduate school said, “You must have at minimum of 3.0.” So, I'm not invincible, she thought, what else could you possibly want from me?
One the verge of tears, this girl searched many internet advice forums and found information about getting into graduate school. They said, basically, she would have a chance if she could talk to the professors themselves. After months of trying to e-mailing them and sending them professional letters with no reply, she has lost hope. No one wants to listen to her or they are too busy to respond. The tears rise again, but she fights it. Heartsick, she turns to schools that do not have what she wants or needs just to be able to finish her education to get a Ph.D and get a real job.
The struggle continues on, even though she is getting jobs really low in her field. No one will help her finish her education due to lack of funding and her lack of supremely high grades. What now? What possible ways are their for this girl to realise her dream? Surely she should not give up now. She has come so far to being a professor, studying archaeology and the past. Her mind has expanded and grown! With seemingly inexhaustible hope, this girl continues to search for her answers to make her dreams become a realisation. I will not give up, even if it is improbable, she thinks upon waking every morning.
Frustrations of not being perfect
By Non.Serrated.Edge - Posted on July 10th, 2008
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Take some additional classes at your old school to get your GPA up. Maybe retake a class or two that you flubbed. Acing those will show admissions people that you really were affected by being sick, and that you are back up to the challenge of graduate school. I had to do this to get into grad school, too. I just retook a couple of my oops classes (my GPA was really close to 3.0 already, so I didn't have to take much) and had no trouble getting in, despite the 3.0 requirement. Granted, I'm in an education program, and they don't seem to mind idiot teachers. Your field may be more rigorous, but I still think there's hope!
Good luck!
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I currently live and work in China. I can't go to my old school and take classes, unfortunately. The other thing that holds me back is money. You see, the government tells you that you can only take 192 credit hours before your money is cut off. As a person from an extremely poor (nearly homeless) background and no familial support, I have not a chance in the world at affording a couple of more classes at a real school.
I've been thinking about taking online courses, but they don't offer any in my major, I don't think. At least, I've not seen any. I'm going to keep looking though.
Thanks for the advice. If I have a chance to follow it up, I might do so.
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