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august

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  • Birthday 09/21/1987

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    Clemson
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    English, focus in Creative Writing

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  1. I've been here before and you guys have been a great help. So I'm here again! I am currently enrolled in a Master's program for English. I'm in my second semester and have been given some conflicting ideas when it comes to grades. Next year I plan to apply for PhD programs in Rhetoric and New Media, especially one that is taught at the school I am currently at, but I am confused and GPAs and the like. A professor of mine recently sent my class an email saying that a B on a paper or in a class in graduate school (MA) is equivalent to a D in undergrad. It was pretty shocking. While I know As are supposed to be aimed for, and ultimately received for ultimate achievement, I had been under the impression that a B was merely not as great as you can be and if you get a whole litany of Bs on your transcripts than you had better find a new career. Maybe my impression was wrong, but I'm not sure. So I suppose, what I'm asking is: How horrible is it to get a B or two on your graduate transcripts?
  2. I apologize for another GPA post, but I've looked through the earlier ones and notice that they relate to undergrad GPA. My question relates to a graduate GPA. I'm currently in an MA program with intention to enroll in a PhD program in creative writing. My undergraduate GPA was stellar, a 3.94 but I am unnaturally close to getting a C in a class during my first semester. I am working on attempting to bring it up before the end of the semester, but I'm looking at a worse case scenario. So my question is, would one C (and if I manage to keep a 3.5 or higher GPA aside from this class) hurt my chances of getting into a PhD program? Or, do programs look at the overall GPA? My GRE isn't stellar, but it's well above the minimum that is needed for the schools I'm interested in.
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