Conditional acceptance

Graduate School
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<p>Has anyone been admitted to graduate school on a conditional basis?</p>

<p>My friend just told me she was accepted to her master's program on a conditional basis. She satisfied all the requirements of admission: above a 3.0, above 500 on both the v&m gre and 4.5 on the writing and a BA from an accredited school. Her gre and gpa were not stellar.</p>

<p>Her only requirement is to get B's(3.0) on 3 classes or 9 credits within her first 2 semesters.<br>
I told her to ask for the reason for this conditional acceptance. She's afraid, the grad school my rescind her acceptance completely. I told her that is very unlikely, if she asks nicely.</p>

<p>Normally, I would have left this alone, but I believe the added pressure may affect her performance.</p>

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<p>I was accepted conditionally to one of my schools because they wanted me to do a math prep program (what, my high school calc class doesn't count?! Jerks!) I don't see why she's afraid to ask, as I don't see them rescinding admissions over something so silly.</p>

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<p>The conditional admission thing is fairly common and no big deal. Every person I've known who was conditionally admitted did fine the first year. And grades below a B are bad for any Graduate Student.</p>

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<p>Actually, now that I think about it, conditional acceptance is the norm for anyone who's coming straight from undergrad. Why? Because the grad school will need proof of a bachelor's ASAP.</p>

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<p>UCLAri are you studying abroad in Japan or what?</p>

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<p>Conditional acceptance means the graduate school has put certain conditions and if not met, this usually means dismissal. </p>

<p>Sometimes its prerequisite work or minimum grades, as the case for my friend.</p>

<p>I have to maintain atleast a 3.0 gpa or I maybe dismissed. I can get 1 "C" and still be safe, though.</p>

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<p>brand_182,</p>

<p>No, I live and work here until next week, when I move to San Diego for grad school.</p>

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<p>Well, my friend finally got an answer in writing, but it's weird. The reason she was given for conditional acceptance was because her gpa was below a 3.0 or she had low TOEFL scores. I have no idea about the TOEFL since she's American and she has a GPA higher than a 3.0.</p>

<p>I thought it might be a major GPA thing, even though we don't have major gpa's recorded on our official transcripts. But how would a foreign school, calculate a major gpa?</p>

<p>She's still is taking it personally and is no longer willing to fight her department, even though I told her to try to talk with the head of the department directly and not just the secretary.</p>

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<p>I don't mean to knock your friend, but both of those reasons are perfectly reasonable reasons for putting someone on conditional status.</p>

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<p>I agree with the departmental reasons, but she had a gpa higher than a 3.0 and she didn't have to take the toefl test. Someone made a mistake. She just doesn't like the "we're watching you feeling".</p>

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<p>Ahh!!! Now it makes sense.</p>

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<p>I was offered conditional acceptance to one of my Computer Science programs... I believe they were mostly worried because I came from a school that didn't officially have a computer science major at the time.</p>

<p>I didn't persue that opportunity, however, because I had several full acceptances with full tuition and assistanceships offered.</p>