neerahs

Thanks for that info. I'm a transfer so it's been difficult trying to get to know my professors. I'm hoping to do a Thesis so I'll get to work closely w staff members from the department so that will help.

^ Thanks. I'm starting to feel much more hopeful now and will make sure I contiune doing well and take advantage of some of the opportunities my Uni has which will help me prepare for Grad School. Oh. I do have one question though. I will have completed my major next year (Summer 2013) and wondering when's a good time to study for and take the GRE. I still want to take time after graduating and save up money and hopefully get an internship unpaid or paid as long as i have something related to what I ultimatly want to do, which is work in a museum.

Thank you both for the very helpful and informative advice. @SToF I plan to get my Master's, and that last paragraph...spot on you are so right about that. @NEN I appreciate you sharing your story. Glad you stuck with it and it's an encouraging story to share. --- I should have also added I had to repeat a couple of History classes at my Community College do to either not attending classes or not doing the work. I was very unhappy during the first 5 years at my CC. I repeated them during my last year and did very well, but it won't look great I know that.

I graduated HS in 2006 and attened a local Community College. Unfortunatly it took me 5 years to get it together and only my final 3 semesters did I start to improve my grades. So I finally graduated after 6 years of being at a CC, and was accepted at one my state's flagship schools (Summer '12) which has a decent undergrad History Department. I did well my first semester here and will continue the upward trend. Overall my GPA at my CC was horrible as I was a huge slacker and had zero motivation in the beginning, the only thing that got me into the Uni I am currently attending is that I had a great upward trend as well as the fact that I was an in-state CC Transfer. Certain things happend and saw my real passion was in History. I plan on getting a Honors in the Major, and learning a new language at my University. I want to focus on European History if I decide on Grad School. What do Grad Schools look at? I know they will look at my overall GPA and not just my University GPA. My University GPA should be between 3.7-3.9 by the time I graduate depending on this semester. Of course that won't matter, as they will include all my other grades from my CC, and it will really drop that complete GPA drastically. I know GRE scores will be important as well. How much will Teacher Rec's come into play, as well as my Honors Theses? Do I stand a chance?