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Hi, everyone:
I am considering starting premed and applying for some Caribbean schools. As I re-looked my previous transcripts, I found some potential problems.
About 7 years ago, I went for a 2-year Master's program in a medical-unrelated field in a so-so state university. I was enrolled as a thesis-track student. The first summer I took the "Graduate Thesis" course, and had a grade "P", as you all know for thesis class they only has P or F.
As my study went on, I felt this was not the field I really wanted to work in. I switched to non-thesis track. The second summer I took "Independent Study" class. I got my degree as a non-thesis student.
Normally if one pursues thesis track, one takes 2 three-credit ?Graduate Thesis? classes. Does my transcript look weird and is defected? Will the admission committee raise a question like ?What happened to your thesis??
Also, when I did the switch, the advisor told me she could change my previous ?Graduate Thesis? course to ?Independent Study?, so that I could graduate as a non-thesis student. But then both of us were too busy and negligent so we didn?t change. Can I still change the course name on the transcript now after so many years? I thought I should not have graduated with such a weird transcript like this.
So will my transcript be considered weird and defected, or it is just me who were panic.
I don't know what to do now. Please give me your honest opinion, bad or good. I really appreciate it.
I am considering starting premed and applying for some Caribbean schools. As I re-looked my previous transcripts, I found some potential problems.
About 7 years ago, I went for a 2-year Master's program in a medical-unrelated field in a so-so state university. I was enrolled as a thesis-track student. The first summer I took the "Graduate Thesis" course, and had a grade "P", as you all know for thesis class they only has P or F.
As my study went on, I felt this was not the field I really wanted to work in. I switched to non-thesis track. The second summer I took "Independent Study" class. I got my degree as a non-thesis student.
Normally if one pursues thesis track, one takes 2 three-credit ?Graduate Thesis? classes. Does my transcript look weird and is defected? Will the admission committee raise a question like ?What happened to your thesis??
Also, when I did the switch, the advisor told me she could change my previous ?Graduate Thesis? course to ?Independent Study?, so that I could graduate as a non-thesis student. But then both of us were too busy and negligent so we didn?t change. Can I still change the course name on the transcript now after so many years? I thought I should not have graduated with such a weird transcript like this.
So will my transcript be considered weird and defected, or it is just me who were panic.
I don't know what to do now. Please give me your honest opinion, bad or good. I really appreciate it.
