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| You Are An INFP |
 You are a creative person with a great imagination. You enjoy living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close to you. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak |
Mar. 14th, 2009
Or my friend, anyway.
( Backstory back here. )
With me so far? Good.
Okay. Given the numbers above, I may indeed graduate with an awesome GPA from UW. My cumulative GPA, though, bites. In fact, if I make nothing but 4.0 for the entire 2009-2010 semester (two quarters longer than I absolutely need to graduate), then I will succeed in raising my GPA to only a 2.91 or so. If I ace a summer class or two, I could expect a 2.93. I'm not sure it's mathematically possible at this point to get to a 3.0 in anything like a reasonable time frame whatsoever.
Guess what the minimum GPA is for admission pretty much all the grad programs I'm looking at? You guessed it, a 3.0. It might -- might -- be that I could get through with good letters, an unparalleled writing sample and a kick-ass GRE score, but it'll be completely down to someone on an admissions board taking pity on me. UW apparently only requires a 3.0 in the last two years of coursework, which makes them unusual in that regard and means I'm not totally SOL... well, for a couple of programs, anyway.
On the one hand, better to know now. On the other... well, damn. I hate it when my past sins come back to bite me in the ass.
( Backstory back here. )
With me so far? Good.
Okay. Given the numbers above, I may indeed graduate with an awesome GPA from UW. My cumulative GPA, though, bites. In fact, if I make nothing but 4.0 for the entire 2009-2010 semester (two quarters longer than I absolutely need to graduate), then I will succeed in raising my GPA to only a 2.91 or so. If I ace a summer class or two, I could expect a 2.93. I'm not sure it's mathematically possible at this point to get to a 3.0 in anything like a reasonable time frame whatsoever.
Guess what the minimum GPA is for admission pretty much all the grad programs I'm looking at? You guessed it, a 3.0. It might -- might -- be that I could get through with good letters, an unparalleled writing sample and a kick-ass GRE score, but it'll be completely down to someone on an admissions board taking pity on me. UW apparently only requires a 3.0 in the last two years of coursework, which makes them unusual in that regard and means I'm not totally SOL... well, for a couple of programs, anyway.
On the one hand, better to know now. On the other... well, damn. I hate it when my past sins come back to bite me in the ass.