<p>"What’s your deal? "</p>
<p>Not to be berated by some tools trying to make a little mit girl cry by telling her how to act. I do feel entitlement because I know for a fact I’ve worked harder than anyone that didn’t do to a school as hard as mine. Its just fact.</p>
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<p>You know that the admissions committees for grad school are composed of a handful of professors from the department, right? I would think they would know a thing or two about what to look for in a student and what it takes in that research area.</p>
<p>^ Hey, I didn’t mean anything by that. I just wanted to know why you’re being confrontational. I didn’t mean to “tell you what to do”. I was just trying to help you with what I thought was your problem.</p>
<p>I’m not berating you. What do you want from us? Do you want help getting into some grad school? Do you want suggestions for other grad schools? Do you want us to make you feel better about having a 2.8 GPA?</p>
<p>Like I said, I feel like I understand the depression part of your situation, but we can’t help you unless you let us.</p>
<p>You may have started by genuinely asking for help, but you quickly turned to snotty remarks when you didn’t like the kind of responses you were getting. I dunno…maybe it’s just me, but statements like </p>
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<p>don’t really sound like a solicitation for advice, but rather an invitation for flaming, which, um, is exactly what you got. (I don’t think you’d like it if someone said “I could easily do better than a 2.8 at MIT.”)</p>
<p>Perhaps you should learn a little humility–whether you want to believe it or not, the negativity you’re seeing isn’t out of jealousy whatsoever but out of disgust at your (to put it bluntly) academic d0uchebaggery.</p>
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<p>And us “tools” don’t want to be berated by some pompous prick with a false sense of entitlement. I know for a fact that while you have most likely worked very hard, that doesn’t mean that you are any more qualified than the rest of us hard working folks on the boards or in life in general.</p>
<p>I actually feel sorry for you, young lady. You’ve got a really hard road ahead of you.</p>
<p>End of my posts on this thread. If you’re not a ■■■■■, you do an excellent impression of one.</p>
<p>Wow.</p>
<p>I originally took this at face value, but then the OP seemed so outlandish that I figured she had to be a ■■■■■ (and a good one). However, when I looked at her previous posts (stopped in the summer of her MIT acceptance 3+ years ago), it was clear that her superiority complex and sense of entitlement were there even then. Then I just became sad.</p>
<p>As unfortunate as it sounds, it’s going to take a VERY hard fall before she has any possibility of recognizing her problem, accepting constructive criticism, and adjusting her attitude. With the history of depression, I only hope she remains safe during her transition. And hopefully, sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I just had this thought, and I was cracking up about it so I’ll share. No offense is intended to the OP.</p>
<p>Wondering why you’re not getting accepted to grad schools? Take a look at your statement of purpose.</p>
<p>To whom it may concern:</p>
<p>I am abundantly over-qualified for your graduate program. It’s a travesty and a shame that I even have to jump through these hoops like a regular person. I go to MIT, don’t you know. Where did you waste four years? Who cares. You just don’t get it.</p>
<p>I have a 2.8 GPA, but I could have had a 4.3 unweighted GPA anywhere else in the country, while curing cancer and solving the halting problem. I decided to make something of my life and go to MIT, though, where everybody’s below the class average.</p>
<p>My life plans include being better than everybody else at anything. I poop rainbows. You don’t like it? Your envy is transparent. Go get over yourself.</p>
<p>I’m not sure if she is a ■■■■■ or not (I think 4chan has made me a bit more immune to ■■■■■■■■).</p>
<p>Anyway OP, I have no clue how intelligent you are–you could be a damn Putnam Scholar for all I know. Regardless, your academic marks even at MIT won’t “over-qualify” you for any graduate program–if anything, it’ll raise red flags. Remember, the admission committee have professors on them who comb through the applications in order to hand-pick possible GRAs. While you could be the most hard working student at MIT, your grades won’t show that. Furthermore, your fellowships/scholarships are directly related to your GPA/academics–paying for a PhD or a MS (with research of course) is sort of an insult. </p>
<p>You have 2 semesters left and you need to do whatever it takes to raise your GPA. Honestly though, it probably won’t help since applications are due soon and admission committees won’t see your latter grades, unless you delay your application date. </p>
<p>Your best chance is to network and prove your worth to an MIT lab PI and have him/her leverage you into MIT graduate school. However, this is a pretty difficult task since you’ll have hundreds of other candidates with higher GPA vying for your PI’s attention. If you can produce incredible research results (publications!) then you might have a shot.</p>
<p>Other top schools will most likely be very harsh on your application, specifically due to your GPA. I got into the top programs when I applied and I’m telling you, even if you went to a difficult school, being top of your class counts a lot more. I mentioned this before but from the admission web page it seems that MIT students with a 4.8/5.0 are highly encouraged to apply to the graduate program–these candidates are you internal competition. As I said your best bet is to develop some unique research skills that make you invaluable and start networking with prospective advisers/professors. </p>
<p>If you don’t get into graduate school, another route is to either work (at a lab or employer) and then re-apply.</p>
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<p>I empathize with the OP because what she is saying is really true. I have friends whose dream it was to go to MIT and the ones who were lucky enough to get in all regretted it on some level due to the grading. At least one transferred out to another top school and is doing much better there.</p>
<p>What you say is the truth, regardless of the flak you get for it here. I went to one of the more grade-inflated universities in the nation for undergrad, graduated summa cum laude with a 3.8 without trying very hard, and when I matriculated to GT I was pretty happy when I scored above the median on exams (granted now I’m working 40 hours a week on research while juggling the full class load, unlike many of my classmates). If I were an undergrad here and presumably scored about the median amongst all these talented people, I probably would have a GPA comparable to the OP, despite being vastly more apt than someone with a higher GPA at a lower ranked university.</p>
<p>I don’t really have any answers for you, but I do think that the disparity amongst people with similar GPA’s at even top 20 schools is large and that admissions committees (most of which came from MIT-caliber schools) should recognize this.</p>
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<p>Careful, your major’s showing :)</p>
<p>you’d be above avg here at cal. avg here is a 2.7.
if you transfer doesn’t you gpa reset? at least that’s how cal does it to xfer student’s grades.
raising your grade won’t be difficult. i don’t think mit media studies courses are exactly hard since at cal it’s a fluff major.
honestly guys, stop jumping on his attitude when you know he’s already depressed… you wouldn’t exactly want an “hey I got in here” response now would you.</p>
<p>How s/he feels is no excuse for his/her coming here, asking for help, and then being rude when people try to give it… honestly, if s/he just wants to sit around and mope about it, we don’t need to have our time wasted like that. Like I said, I can sympathize, but there’s a point where you need to talk sense to a person no matter how bad they feel. For me, that point is usually where they start acting out. I can’t speak for anybody else, but when I say the OP is saying immature and foolish things, I’m talking about the things and not the person. People say things sometimes they don’t necessarily mean. I want to believe the OP is not as screwed up as his/her posts would seem to indicate.</p>
<p>If you transfer your GPA at the new institution might reset but graduate/professional schools will request ALL transcripts.</p>
<p>Is it possible to just work for a while while trying to build a relevant CV for grad schools? Perhaps if you get into a grad school for your masters, you can use that as springboard for a doctorate.</p>
<p>I feel sorry for this poor excuse of a scholar.</p>
<p>Miss Depression: Yeah so that’s why I should get in your top grad program.
Interviewer: Your 2.8 will count a lot against you.
Miss Depression: haha, your school is really a joke compared to MIT. As an MIT student, I am vastly superior to any other person in your institution because I’m from MIT.
Interviewer: You are vastly more arrogant than any other person in any institution.</p>
<p>bumping this thread just to admire your 2.8 gpa</p>
<p>Harsh.
10 char.</p>
<p>But funny.
10 char.</p>
<p>Regardless of if you think MIT GPAs are comparable to other schools’ GPAs or not, Grad Schools generally start cutting off at 3.0. You’re being compared with the rest of your class, and you’re going to be seen as merely average compared to your classmates. If you think that you could have gotten a much better GPA at other top-tier schools, it’s your fault for going to MIT, sorry. Your whining isn’t going to help your case much.</p>