Any hope for me-UK grad school?

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<p>I am a senior English major. I am also a non-traditional student, 33 years old. I started college 15 years ago when I graduated high school, and my first semester was great. However, due partly to medical problems, partly to maturity, I consistently did worse until about 7 years ago. When I began school this fall of 2012, my overall GPA was 1.97. I changed my major to English, and took 9 hours, receiving a 4.0. This brought my overall GPA up to a 2.12. Better, but still horrible. I will be taking 12 hours of English courses in the spring, then will have two more semesters until I graduate. If I keep a 4.0 in my major, will there be any hope for me to get into grad school in the UK? Should I get a second minor in history, a subject I am very good at, thus hopefully increasing my GPA, or just stay with the English courses? I want to get a master's focusing on literature, especially British literature. I love Shakespeare, Austen, Beowulf, etc. </p>

<p>I would dearly love to attend the University of Edinburgh, but know this is probably far out of my reach. I am not sure I will even be able to get into a US grad school, but my dream is to attend a university in the UK.</p>

<p>Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Thanks!</p>

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<p>As a full fee paying foreign student there are probably lots of UK unis who would accept you no questions asked. I did a masters at York and half the people on my course could not speak English. So if you just want to go anywhere for the experience, they need your money so you are bound to be accepted somewhere.</p>

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<p>Pretty much what cupcake said. If you’re willing/able to pay the full fees, there are a LOT of universities in the UK that will accept you.</p>

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<p>Why not email Edinburgh and ask?</p>

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<p>Thanks boomting! I don’t know why that had not occurred to me. I will do that.</p>