<p>I am double majoring in English and Psychology and I have a 3.165 overall average right now. I will most likely graduate with slightly above a 3.2. I want to attend graduate school for an MA in comparative literature. My overall English GPA is a 3.788. Do I have a chance at getting into a comparative literature MA program at any of the following?</p>
<p>University of Connecticut
University of Massachusetts
Penn State</p>
<p>Do you have a chance?</p>
<p>Yes*</p>
<p>the probability will vary in the range of: 0.0000001 - 1</p>
<p>Do you have adequate language prep? Are you writing an honors thesis in English? Are you coming from a college that is known to be rigorous? Do you have professors who are excited enough about your work that they could write glowing recommendations? There are far too many variables in graduate admissions for anyone to give you an accurate assessment of your chances. Your major advisor would probably be the best person to answer this question.</p>
<p>I don’t know where those schools stand in the Comp Lit pack, so I don’t know how competitive they are. Look into how many graduate students they accept each year. If they take in only two or three, that’s going to be tough. But it doesn’t hurt to try.</p>
<p>I’m not writing an honors thesis but I will have a solid critical writing sample. I will have good recommendations. I’m currently taking intermediate Spanish and I will be studying abroad in a Spanish speaking country next semester. The only problem with that is that I will have to apply to grad school before I have actually studied abroad.</p>
<p>So let me get this straight, you’re studying abroad in your last semester before graduation?</p>
<p>And why no honors thesis?</p>
<p>I’m not writing an honors thesis because although my english gpa is high, at my university you need a 3.5 over all to be in the honors program.</p>
<p>And I’m graduating this semester. I’m going purely because I want to learn spanish and I have a free semester before graduate school begins.</p>