Timeline for Thoughts on Student with Bad Grades in Easy Courses and Better Grades in hard courses
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| Dec 23, 2014 at 11:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/547355212584058881 | ||
| Dec 17, 2014 at 14:16 | comment | added | paul garrett | @JeffE, exactly sounds like it requires interpretation. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 13:54 | comment | added | JeffE | @paulgarrett Because they have the good sense to realize there's no benefit to acing drudgery? Nobody really cares if you aced underwater basketbeaving. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | paul garrett | @JeffE, sure, if the situation really is, clearly, that the student sought out interesting things and excelled, while neglecting silly required drudgery. But this requires interpretation. Also, the drudgery's pretty easy, so why not just ace it, too, without effort? | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 13:50 | comment | added | JeffE | That said, I agree with @VietnhiPhuvan. Your best bet is not to give the admissions committee an opportunity to think. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 13:47 | comment | added | JeffE | I'm honestly surprised at @paulgarrett's comment. I see the profile "sought out grad classes and excelled, at the expense of lower level classes" as nearly synonymous with "better suited to research than college", especially coupled with strong letters. Sure, it's immature, but people tend to grow out of immaturity, given the opportunity. Perhaps my confirmation bias is showing, but in my experience, undergraduates with that profile tend to thrive in strong PhD programs. Clear admit. | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 7:35 | history | edited | ff524 |
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| Dec 17, 2014 at 4:04 | comment | added | Anonymous | A single B+ seems to be inaccurately described as "bad grades". | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 3:13 | answer | added | Bill Barth | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 17, 2014 at 2:33 | comment | added | Ben Bitdiddle | If those were graduate courses I'd assume you got the A+'s due to easy grading. Often graduate courses give everyone good grades and have little to no work. Then again, I'm not a professor. | |
| S Dec 17, 2014 at 0:58 | history | suggested | Loser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cleaned, and added more information (This was my previous question that I logged out from)
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:37 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | And I want to remind you that you are going to be up against a whole bunch of people whose academic records make the decision to admit to the grad school of their choice a no-brainer. Admissions committee want to see passion and you are showing what you are capable of when you show passion. But they are also looking for discipline and an ability to get things done right even when the motivation has gone to hell and even when you hate and despise what you are doing. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:29 | comment | added | Vietnhi Phuvan | You want either the decision to admit you to the grad school of your choice and the decision of a choice employer to make you an offer to be a no-brainer. The problem right now is that you are not making those decisions that impact your life to be no-brainers. Do things with a little more self-discipline and you'll sleep a lot better at night. Even in a field you love, 90% of the work is scut work. If you can be relied upon only when you are enthused and excited, I am not sure that I'd want you on my team because I have to constantly check on how excited and enthused you are. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:27 | comment | added | paul garrett | Not a good, thing, obviously, no, because it reveals some immaturity, understandable in young people! :), but not a plus. One might worry about a new-and-different manifestation of this later... or, sure, interpret it as being focused on more serious things, exercise-of-critical-judgement... Two things: you figure out which it is and take appropriate personal action, and, separately, spin it as "the good version" to admissions committees and such. | |
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 23:15 | history | asked | Loser | CC BY-SA 3.0 |