Thanks for your response. That was helpful as well.
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Now that I understand the technicalities, I'm curious to know people's thoughts on how effective taking graduate classes as a non-degree student can be to your application? I know that most people probably take them to fulfill pre-requisites, but can they be used to strengthen your application and make up for any shortcomings that a candidate may have?
I'm interested in knowing how grad schools factor in graduate level classes you take after you've already completed an undergrad, but as a non-matriculated / non-degree student? For example, do they factor into my overall undergrad GPA? Or do they have an entirely separate graduate GPA?
Any comments or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance!