<p>I am coming up on my last year as an undergrad and am interested in grad school. Due to a couple of accidents (breaking my back and trashing my knee) my overall gpa is below a 3.0 and have spent 6 years working on my BA. </p>
<p>However:
-I have done well in a large number of high level classes
-Received numerous grants for research
-Plan on publishing my results in a peer reviewed journal before I graduate (will probably happen)
-Plan on presenting my research to 2 professional societies (will probably happen)
-May receive a couple of good letters of recommendation</p>
<p>Do I have any chance of attending a grad school after I receive my BA?
What can I do to increase my chances of being accepted?</p>
<p>Thank You</p>
<p>I would say it depends on your field and your recent academic history. If you have an improving GPA trend, that would certainly help.</p>
<p>I have barely a 3.0 GPA, but my final semester was a 3.8 and I took a year off to work an internship in the field… had no problems getting accepted to graduate programs. So it’s certainly worth a shot.</p>
<p>First of all, are you physically ok now? That must have been life altering and I understand your difficulties. You publishing will help your application profile, and you need to study for the GRE and get great scores (a great score is a relative term, if you are in the sciences and math 165-170 Quantative, humanities & scial sciences 155-170 Verbal). You will also have to surge out of your senior year (get kick ass gpas each semister). I am origionally from New Orleans, and had to leave school for the first three weeks to take care of my family who lost everything in the storm. I managed a 2.8 at the end of the first semister, but I only managed a 2.5 after a stress filled 2nd semister. I went back for another semister because I had to finish some tech electives, so I loaded up on hard classes (MultiVariabel Calc, Engineering Math, grad level thermo & QM) and ended my college career w/ a 3.5 my last semister. I went to work for 4 years before deciding to go to grad school. Applied to 4 programs, waitlisted at one, and only one acceptance to a MS program (fully funded, $23K stipend). So you may have to work for a little while and grow you CV a little more (this actually helps your profile because you are not working on theory, but in application which stands out to some adcoms depending on the field), or apply to MS programs first, but it is doable. There are always sub 3.0 applicants to programs, and some manage to get in, but you just have to have the rest of your profile in perfect order (great recs, pubs, great GRE scores, and most likely a strong GRE subject test score)</p>