Originally posted by sandflea:
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imtiaz, to be honest, my advice to you is that you wait a year and get a year of graduate courses under your belt. you are in the same situation that i was in a year ago and i'm simply sharing the advice i was given then. if your goal is to raise your GPA and prove that you can handle graduate work, then you need to finish up some courses and have some final grades for adcoms to be convinced of this. some schools state that they will NOT consider graduate work until you have completed at least a semester. plus, you will not have any grades until december, and not only will one semester have a very minimal effect on your GPA, by then, you could theoretically have been rejected from a few schools already--if not, then you've still already missed the first rounds of interviews. so while the fact that you're in a graduate program may not affect your application status at the schools you're applying to (depending on what they are), your pursuit of a graduate degree isn't going to have the effect that you think it will, in terms of your GPA and proving to adcoms that you can handle the work. again, this is the same boat i was in a year ago and i was advised to wait.
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