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[bonesbaby33]

I have been under the impression that grad schools don't expect fall semester grades. This especially makes sense for December, even January deadlines, as most people including myself don't get official grades until break and student services pretty much shuts down. I requested transcripts in October because I'd heard my school was slow with them

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[ellie_desu]

If they need them they will ask you to send a more recent transcript. Don't worry about it.

[bonesbaby33]

Hopefully not having them in the first place doesn't hurt me :\

[ellie_desu]

I don't think they would. Being as they open application stuff in like october they shouldn't expect them.

[bonesbaby33]

Good point, and one of the ones I had in my head somewhere but did not manage to make. :)

[ellie_desu]

Oh, and like I said. I know people who have gotten preliminary decisions, or emails where they said "We can make our final decision based on your fall grades. Please send us a transcript."

[bonesbaby33]

I hope no one says that to me, because I got an A, A, B+, and a B. Not terrible, but my worst semester. The B's were in stats, somewhat luckily.

[ellie_desu]

Unless you're applying to quant or stat programs, I think you can relax.

[bonesbaby33]

Thanks :)

[ellie_desu]

Oh, and if a program says "whoops, got a B, reject!", chances are you don't want to go there anyhow.

[bonesbaby33]

True true. But at this point I'm willing to go anywhere that'll let me in. Which now scares me, because Suze Orman just had someone on her show who was in way over her head from student loans and was only making $7/hr. D:

[ellie_desu]

That's someone who didn't plan right. I'm taking out loans but I'm going to be able to get jobs that. A) didn't plan to get an education that could pay for the cost of the education, and B) didn't work within their programs to ensure degree marketability.

I'm in sociology, which can very easily slip into a useless degree if you graduate going "WHeeee!!! Marx if fuzzy!" which some people do. However, if you are smart about your plan of study and read through the job requirements for what you want to do (given that you have an idea about what you want to do) you can make yourself competitive for the job market.