Interesting Question

[water4girl]

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Has anyone every said an interview that the reason their undergraduate gpa was low @ 2.73 but their post bac gpa was high @ 3.8 was just plain and simple bc they hated their undergraduate major ----accounting. Yuck. Just wondering if anyone has had any questions like this ...thanks

 

[enamine]

I'm just wondering -- why did you major in accounting if you hated it so much?

 

[thackl]

Be careful with this. While it look good to have graduate work on your resume/application, most people know it is easier to get good grades in most graduate programs. Though the work my be more challenging, instructors assume you are serious and grade easier (most of the time). A "C" is like an "F" and a "B" is like a "C". I know a number of people who had better MS grades than BS.

 

[water4girl]

i had majored in accounting bc i didn't know what else to do and I was in the business school. When i decided i hated it i was a senior and a little too late. I was on a athletic scholarship and didn't have the ability to change majors and stay. I did my post bac after i graduated school and had time to think about what i wanted to do with my life. With post bac meaning science pre reqs at a local 4 year university.

 

[thackl]

my mistake, I thought you meant grad school.

 

[JM.]

I think an explanation similar to the one you just posted would make an interesting interview. You could rephrase it sort of though - you hadn't discovered something you really enjoyed.

 

[lakeaustin]

you could say you became a more serious student, and excelled in your graduate level science classes

 

[PublicHealth]

Originally posted by thackl
Be careful with this. While it look good to have graduate work on your resume/application, most people know it is easier to get good grades in most graduate programs. Though the work my be more challenging, instructors assume you are serious and grade easier (most of the time). A "C" is like an "F" and a "B" is like a "C". I know a number of people who had better MS grades than BS.

Graduate school professors do not "grade easier" at all. In most graduate schools, grades range from "B-" to "A" as opposed to the undergraduate range from "F" to "A." Anything below a "B-" or "B" in most graduate schools is not considering a passing grade, and the course must be repeated.

PH