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[Parnassus]

Alright......

So my Latin cumulative gpa is 2.21

the rest of my classes are A/B (mostly history based as I am a Classics major.)

I could stay with my classics major (and work to get it up within the next year or so to the 3.0 mark.)

Or change to history....and do the classics later. I do have a love for it, but have ran into some personal issues, whivh resulted in C's in my latin courses.

I'm considering post undergrad options:

1. post bacc at a school to sharpen up my Latin/Greek/German

2. Is an MA program even a possibility?

I also feel like taking the "easy" way out and switching to history, just to concentrate privately on the Latin.

Edited April 8, 2011 by Parnassus

[Zouzax]

it's really up to you & what your goals are for the future. How important would a degree in Classics be? Is switching to history what you really want to do? How will it affect your future goals?

I had the same issue as you when I was an undergrad. I entered university as a Neuroscience student. By my sophomore year, I was doing amazingly well in my Psychology courses but only so-so in my Bio & Physics courses. I decided to switch to Psychology, and graduated with that degree. Of course, at that point I planned to go in a completely different direction with my career so I was just anxious to graduate.

Now I slightly regret it. I wish I had stuck with Neuroscience because it was my first love and I keep going back to it. Now Im entering a second Master's program to retake all of those neuroscience classes I missed out on so that I can get a Ph.D in a relevant field. So my advice is, really think about how important Classics is to you, and if there's a chance you'll regret it in the future. Think of your goals and where you want to head career-wise. Then make the decision.

[Parnassus]

Zouzax,

Thanks for your response. It does matter to me. I enjoy Classics....yet I would need to get ALL A's in my remaining Latin courses to actually get the degree. I feel a lot of (self-imposed?) pressure. That and my advisor is a bit of a tosser....So every time I go in to see him, I barely control this anger....Discussing my predicament yesterday, he said he would give me an olive branch (I felt it more to be a salt spring..) and allow me to get a B, and still grant me the degree.

I'm so close to finishing this degree, that if i switch now to history it would take quite a bit longer to finish.

[cranberry]

I hate to be a downer, but if you have a 2.21 now and you have one year left, I don't think it's even mathematically possible to bring it up to a 3.0. That is assuming you're currently a junior, though. On a more important note, though, have you taken any Greek? It'll be near impossible to get into a grad program in Classics if you've only taken Latin.

[Parnassus]

I hate to be a downer, but if you have a 2.21 now and you have one year left, I don't think it's even mathematically possible to bring it up to a 3.0. That is assuming you're currently a junior, though. On a more important note, though, have you taken any Greek? It'll be near impossible to get into a grad program in Classics if you've only taken Latin.

No you're not being a downer it is reality that I am only now coming to terms with. As it stands I am signed up for Greek 101 for next semester , but I might drop it to focus more fully on Latin I have 3 Latin classes left (202, 421,422) some more upper divisions and I'm done with the degree provided I can get essentially all A's in the remainning latin courses I can have the degree.