Hi there,<\/p>\n
I have a 2.99 gpa and I’m in my technically 3rd year (this should be my fourth year, but I took off a semester for medical reasons, thus I’m behind). If I stay behind another year and graduate in 2016 instead of 2015, will my gpa reach at least a 3.3 to get into grad school considering that I take five courses in each semester?? I really want to get into grad school in England. Also, I don’t know of any professors so far. I haven’t actually put in the effort to go their office hours. Do you think another year is enough to get good reference letters?? How would I go about getting good reference letters?<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p>\n
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hey there,<\/p>\n
i gotta say i don’t really get the first part of your question (i say that too much, don’t i? whoops<\/a>). are you asking if it’s possible to bring your CGPA to a 3.3 in one more year? ‘cuz you don’t need me for that, you need a calculator.<\/p>\n so if your CGPA is 2.99 and you get a 4.0 next year, your CGPA will be a 3.24. however if 2.99 is your just AGPA for this year, then that’s a different story. you’ll have to do those calculations yourself, my friend, ’cause i don’t know enough about your marks to be able to tell. or you can e-mail me if i misunderstood your question, which happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n also, i’m just saying, “grad school in england” could mean a lot of stuff. like, there’s a big difference between getting into oxford and getting into bangor U<\/a>.<\/p>\n as for reference letters, i’d say one year is TOTALLY enough time. as long as you make a diligent effort right from the outset of the year to make yourself known (by going to office hours, speaking up in class, and making appointments to discuss papers\/assignments) i think you can probably find a prof willing to be your reference. when it comes around application time, just go to the prof(s) who you seem to get along with best and ask! i don’t know what else you could possibly do. bring them chocolate maybe? beg<\/a>? i dunno. if any current grad students have extra tips, please leave them as a comment.<\/p>\n best of luck! i hope you get to go somewhere rad in england,<\/p>\n aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi there, I have a 2.99 gpa and I’m in my technically 3rd year (this should be my fourth year, but I took off a semester for medical reasons, thus I’m behind). If I stay behind another year and graduate in 2016 instead of 2015, will my gpa reach at least a 3.3 to get into grad school considering that I take five courses in each semester?? I really want to get into grad school in England. Also, I don’t know of any professors so far. I haven’t actually put in the effort to go their office hours. Do you think another year is enough to get good reference letters?? How would I go about getting good reference letters? Thanks! \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 hey there, i gotta say i don’t really get the first part of your question (i say that too much, don’t i? whoops). are you asking if it’s possible to bring your CGPA to a 3.3 in one more year? ‘cuz you don’t need me for that, you need a calculator. so if your CGPA is 2.99 and you get a 4.0 next year, your CGPA will be a 3.24. however if 2.99 is your just AGPA for this year, then that’s a different story. you’ll have to do those calculations yourself, my friend, ’cause i don’t know enough about your marks to be able to tell. or you can e-mail me if i misunderstood your question, which happens. also, i’m just saying, “grad school in england” could mean a lot of stuff. like, there’s a big difference between getting into oxford and getting into bangor U. as for reference letters, i’d say one year is TOTALLY enough time. as long as you make a diligent effort right from the outset of the year to make yourself known (by going to office hours, speaking up in class, and making appointments to discuss papers\/assignments) i think you can probably find a prof willing to be your reference. when it comes around application time, just go to the prof(s) who you seem to get along with best and ask! i don’t know what else you could possibly do. bring them chocolate maybe? beg? i dunno. if any current grad students have extra tips, please leave them as a comment. best of luck! i hope you get to go somewhere rad in england, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-school"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}