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f1simplified

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About f1simplified

  • Birthday 10/28/1991

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  • Location
    Guwahati
  • Application Season
    2013 Fall
  • Program
    Industrial Engineering

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  1. I listen to a lot of instrumental stuff. I often play the Piano Guys on repeat. I figure that listening to instrumental music soothes me without distracting me as there are no lyrics and I won't try and sing along.
  2. Hey everyone, Yeah, you can probably see that I'm kinda of worried right now. So I'm currently doing my masters at an OK school and plan on applying for a PhD in some of the top 10 schools after this. My research work has been pretty good and I have a few publications so far. (Nothing exemplary, but reasonably satisfactory, I believe). I've been trying to keep my grades up since my grades during undergrad (which was a different field) were extremely low. So, of the 7 subjects that I've taken this year, my grades are the following. A, A, A, A-, A, A-, B+ Yes, that B+ at the end is bumming me out. I've heard stories of how top schools simply do not consider your applications unless you're a straight A student or at least have a GPA of 3.9. I'm wondering if I should try and explain the B+ in my application essay. The thing is, the only reason I got the B+ is because while I needed an aggregate % of 86 to get the A-, my score was 85. The professor is quite rigid about his grading and refused to relax it for me. So I'm stuck here. Should I not apply to top schools anymore? Should I attempt to explain my grade in my essay? Is there really anything that I can do about this? Or is this not really much of an issue at all and am I simply being paranoid for no reason?
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