npn112

Hi guys Congratulations to those that made it through the application season with acceptance and those that are waiting, please hang in there. I would like to ask for your experience on how you address the low ugrad GPA on SOP? My uGPA was 2.8 due to a year full of trouble that involved medication, counseling and some legal interventions to prevent further harassment from this nut case. After that I had a 4.0 graduate certificate (in a different field), a research, and currently a 3.6 Master GPA but I have received nothing but rejection this fall. My current master program accepted me mainly thank to the research experience that correlates to their teaching but the other programs i applied are in field similar to that of my undergraduate. While I can certainly gloss over the undergrad incident as "i had problems that affected my performance but I have successfully managed it and I have grown from it" I think that just screams "look at my uGPA and forget the rest"; do you have another way of sugar coating such undergraduate failure that does not sound so cliche? Thanks