<p>In general, is it possible to pursue a grad study without finishing the bachelor degree?</p>
<p>I mean, I virtually just need one more required class (technical writing) to graduate. However, if I am accepted by a grad school, I can just quit my undergrad college without actually getting the official certificate of graduation and move on to the grad school. Right?</p>
<p>No, most (all) acceptances are contingent upon you graduating from your undergraduate institution.</p>
<p>That’s why they call it “graduate” school.</p>
<p>If you only have one more required class what is the problem?</p>
<p>@ kryptonsa - to be fair, you can go to university/college without a high-school diploma.</p>
<p>That’s why they DON’T call it “graduate” school.</p>
<p>When you are accepted to a graduate program, your continued enrollment is dependent on your ability to prove your successful graduation prior to the beginning of your second semester. If you cannot produce the “graduated” transcript, you are kicked out.</p>
<p>On the bright side, your acceptance is not dependent on your last undergraduate semester’s grades (or year’s, depending), asuming they do not prevent you from graduating.</p>
<p>@ kryptonsa: point taken.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses. Guess I will just have to overload. The problem is that my school is stringent on having all these humanities classes fulfilled in order to graduate.</p>
<p>cheers</p>
<p>Why don’t you take the last class pass/fail? Or is that against the distributive requirement rules?</p>
<p>The good news is that your final semester grades don’t matter at all – unless they keep you from earning the required number of credits needed to graduate.</p>
<p>I happen to be in the exact same situation (one humanities class away from graduation). In general, I think schools tend to require that courses necessary to graduate be taken for a grade (assuming they are not P/F to begin with).</p>
<p>Which still leaves ccpsux with the option to P/F any class other than the technical writing one.</p>
<p>Here’s something- suppose some school let you into their program without the bachelor’s degree and then you didn’t finish for whatever reasons. You try to get a job- no college degree will make you ineligible for many jobs regardless of how many college credits you have. That piece of paper (diploma) stating you were able to follow through on meeting a college’s requirements says something about you. Time management/organizational skills- why couldn’t you get that last simple course? Despite any anecdotal stories about people without degrees rising high in their professions the college degree is an insurance policy. 99% to the finish line doesn’t count.</p>
<p>hey guys, I just didn’t bother paying those couple of hundreds of bucks for overloading. In fact, for my last semester, all the classes I am taking are all (but required) elementary classes in humanities (my school requires quite a few), but in order to finish them in one semester, I need to overload. Any way, I just made up my mind to overload and enjoy the music, literature, photography, etc of my final college life. :)</p>
<p>I wouldnt imagine its possible anywhere on Earth to go to grad school without an undergrad degree.</p>
<p>think about it. it is up to the school to decide who they will accept into what program. i don’t know if this is still the case but a few years back the university of chicago stated in their catalog that they would accept exceptional students into their physics PhD program without a bachelors. two other schools come to mind as well. but these are likely the exceptions that prove the rule.</p>
<p>Long shot but do you know any foreign language? If you do, take an exam at your school to give you credits. I am an engineering major and did not want to spend time with humanities so I got rid of a huge chunk when I did a language placement exam (8 credits).</p>
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<p>Many medical schools - if that counts as ‘graduate school’ - do not formally require that you finish your bachelor’s degree. Granted, it may be difficult for you to win admission without such a degree or a plan to complete it, but you don’t formally need it.</p>
<p>…we only require completion of three years (135 quarter units or 90 semester units) of acceptable transfer college credit from an accredited institution,</p>
<p>[Getting</a> Started | How to Apply | Office of Admissions | UCSF School of Medicine](<a href=“http://medschool.ucsf.edu/admissions/apply/getting-started.aspx#importantinfo]Getting”>http://medschool.ucsf.edu/admissions/apply/getting-started.aspx#importantinfo)</p>
<p>…Ordinarily a bachelor’s degree is required for admission, but in certain instances students who have completed three full academic years at an accredited college or university might be accepted.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/offices/admiss/admreq.cfm[/url]”>http://www.medstudent.ucla.edu/offices/admiss/admreq.cfm</a></p>
<p>*The MCAT and three years (90 semester hours or 135 quarter hours) in an accredited college or university in the United States are required. Applicants are urged to take the MCAT in the spring but no later than the summer in which the application is made. A course of study leading to a bachelor’s degree is recommended [but not required] *</p>
<p>[UC</a> Davis School of Medicine: Office of Admissions: Admissions requirements](<a href=“http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/mdprogram/admissions/requirements.html]UC”>Admissions requirements | UC Davis School of Medicine)</p>
<p>You also have the infamous case of the college dropout who was nevertheless admitted to the MBA program at Harvard Business School.</p>
<p>[Bush?s</a> Personal Aide To Enroll at Business School | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/5/22/bushs-personal-aide-to-enroll-at/]Bush?s”>Bush’s Personal Aide To Enroll at Business School | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>And then you have somebody like Donald Tsang, the Chief Executive (basically equivalent to the political leader) of Hong Kong, who was somehow able to procure a MPA from Harvard despite no evidence of him ever having earned anything approaching the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree. {Note, references to ‘Wah Yen College’ in his biography are actually a reference to the Hong Kong equivalent of high school.} It’s not as if Hong Kong lacks undergraduate education offerings - indeed, Hong Kong has 9 public universities and a number of private universities that offer bachelor’s degree. To this day, people in Hong Kong still wonder exactly how he managed to get into a graduate program at Harvard without ever having completed a bachelor’s degree.</p>
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How can an exception prove a rule? It just proves it to not be a rule, but to be a generalization.</p>
<p>@Sakky Medical/Law/Business schools are technically ‘professional’ schools, not graduate schools.</p>
<p>Graduate schools will also usually require you to send them a final transcript that indicates you received your diploma, so you can’t just get accepted and then drop out of undergrad.</p>
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<p>The US News Graduate Ranking Edition includes rankings on law/medicine/business. MBA, law, and medical students often times refer to themselves as ‘graduate’ students. (You may disagree with their assertion that they are bonafide graduate students, but it is an undeniable fact that they do often times refer to themselves as such.) </p>
<p>Look, whether we like it or not, many people do think of law/medicine/business students as graduate students, and that’s not going to change anytime soon.</p>