Good Morning Grad Cafer's..
I recently found a grad program at UC Santa Cruz that is a perfect fit: MA in Social Documentation. After contacting the SocDoc program, they were not familiar with a GPA requirement, they pointed me towards the graduate division admissions office. The graduate admissions were not familiar with a GPA requirement either, but after we got off the phone they emailed me finding this, "and have at least a B average in last two years of undergraduate coursework" -- they also pointed me towards the document where this statement can be found.
Generally speaking my GPA is 2.9.
I finished undergrad almost 2 years ago now, after attending 3 different schools (2 were the same school in a different location). The program I finished was a BFA in Photography, requiring 192 credit hours. I took classes out of sequence and most notably, we were on a quarter system. This was a four year program they setup to take 3 years to complete-- once I returned to college, I finished in under 3. So I'm curious how this requirement for grad school will be calculated, and since no one really knew the answer, how much I should worry about this? Will my application be tossed out immediately?
For further background, I went to a commercial photography school, and was usually making fine art. I applied to 5 NYC MFA programs my last year of undergrad and I was accepted into Pratt. I deferred my acceptance to Pratt and traveled last year, working with non-profits and eventually received a photography education grant with which I taught a month long photography program in Central America. Since back in the states, I decided not to attend Pratt and I've continued to work with non-profits in multiple capacities, and have since began co-coordinating that very grant I received, after reaching out to the foundation with new ideas.
I've been very interested in continuing this direction, and also very interested in heading out to the bay area. I was overjoyed in finding this type of program exists, and the out of state tuition is very reasonable. I don't want to create a sob story, or draw to much attention to my application for barely meeting a minimum requirement, but I don't want to waste time and energy if this is an unobtainable goal.
Any thoughts or advice?