Study abroad
I am currently interning at a study abroad institute and to amuse myself and to take advantage of the fact that I have access to such information, I looked up the grades of a bunch of my co-workers and other alumni of the program I knew.
I was surprised. Most of the people I looked up had received all Bs for the semester or lower. Some people's were mostly Cs and a few Ds. And I know a lot of these people successfully got into graduate school.
I see a lot of people saying a 3.5+ GPA isn't good enough to get into "any" grad school, which is obviously a gross exaggeration, but still it made me wonder how graduate schools look at study abroad grades. Do they weigh them into the GPA like any grade taken at the student's home institution, overlook them almost entirely, or "take it easy" on students they know have studied abroad?
I'm wondering if anyone has any insight into this because I honestly thought that the people I knew who knew they wanted to go to grad school would have done much better than their grades reflected.
I wonder if it's like some kind of redeeming factor that students become more culturally aware while they are abroad even if they sacrifice their grades, yet admissions committees must also know that many college students choose to go abroad mainly to party.
I was surprised. Most of the people I looked up had received all Bs for the semester or lower. Some people's were mostly Cs and a few Ds. And I know a lot of these people successfully got into graduate school.
I see a lot of people saying a 3.5+ GPA isn't good enough to get into "any" grad school, which is obviously a gross exaggeration, but still it made me wonder how graduate schools look at study abroad grades. Do they weigh them into the GPA like any grade taken at the student's home institution, overlook them almost entirely, or "take it easy" on students they know have studied abroad?
I'm wondering if anyone has any insight into this because I honestly thought that the people I knew who knew they wanted to go to grad school would have done much better than their grades reflected.
I wonder if it's like some kind of redeeming factor that students become more culturally aware while they are abroad even if they sacrifice their grades, yet admissions committees must also know that many college students choose to go abroad mainly to party.