I’m looking into applying to PhD in Economics (think about top 10) with a GPA of 3.85+ and (170 Q) (160+ V) (5 AWA) in GRE. I graduated from Bangladesh with a BS in Economics.
I’m kind of in a pickle for this particular situation.
I have numerous amount of mathematics courses in my transcript, including the calculus sequence, linear algebra, analysis, optimization and mathematical statistics and achieved A in one but all of them; the one too didn’t have that bad a grade (think A-). Analysis was offered by the Economics department and had a syllabus similar to that of the course generally taken in the first semester by Economics PhD students. I acquired an A. However, in my second to last semester, I also enrolled in one offered by the Mathematics department, but didn’t achieve that good a grade (think C) as I couldn’t attend the final exam due to illness. I chose not to retake the course and moved on. Both the course and the grade of course is showed in my transcript. Mostly the same goes for couple other courses (Intro to Finance and Intro to Physics) that I took during my earlier days of my undergrad and didn’t do good as I couldn’t attend the final exam of one, and was going through a very rough time during the other (sick mother). I retook only one of them (Physics), but only scored a B+ the following semester as I still hadn’t overcome that tough situation.
My questions are how the admission committee will view this and if I should mention the problem illustrated here in my SOP (of course in a more articulate way). As my CGPA probably already reveals, I had As in most of my other courses. The grades of these three courses aren’t counted toward my CGPA since they weren’t required for the program, and I was only exploring.
Along with PhD in Economics, I’m also applying to a handful of competitive masters programs (think Duke’s Economics and Computation).
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slickmoss365
Hello,
I’m looking into applying to PhD in Economics (think about top 10) with a GPA of 3.85+ and (170 Q) (160+ V) (5 AWA) in GRE. I graduated from Bangladesh with a BS in Economics.
I’m kind of in a pickle for this particular situation.
I have numerous amount of mathematics courses in my transcript, including the calculus sequence, linear algebra, analysis, optimization and mathematical statistics and achieved A in one but all of them; the one too didn’t have that bad a grade (think A-). Analysis was offered by the Economics department and had a syllabus similar to that of the course generally taken in the first semester by Economics PhD students. I acquired an A. However, in my second to last semester, I also enrolled in one offered by the Mathematics department, but didn’t achieve that good a grade (think C) as I couldn’t attend the final exam due to illness. I chose not to retake the course and moved on. Both the course and the grade of course is showed in my transcript. Mostly the same goes for couple other courses (Intro to Finance and Intro to Physics) that I took during my earlier days of my undergrad and didn’t do good as I couldn’t attend the final exam of one, and was going through a very rough time during the other (sick mother). I retook only one of them (Physics), but only scored a B+ the following semester as I still hadn’t overcome that tough situation.
My questions are how the admission committee will view this and if I should mention the problem illustrated here in my SOP (of course in a more articulate way). As my CGPA probably already reveals, I had As in most of my other courses. The grades of these three courses aren’t counted toward my CGPA since they weren’t required for the program, and I was only exploring.
Along with PhD in Economics, I’m also applying to a handful of competitive masters programs (think Duke’s Economics and Computation).
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