Will I be able to get into Grad School?

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<p>I studied at a university with a British grading system /singapore/ though they did not provide me with GPA i'm sure it will come out low judging from my grades maybe around 2.5? soon after graduation I worked at a bank as a correspondent banking officer and at a consulting firm specialized in engineering it will be 2 years since I started working. And now I'm considering grad school, within these 2 years I've realized what I majored in /marketing & business administration/ is not exactly cut out for me and i'm finding it as an excuse why I didnt do well cos i didn't have passion or drive in that particular field. I'm considering studying korean language & literature at graduate school so I guess i'd be better off heading to Seoul /seoul national university or yonsei/ but before that I will study korean for a year. </p>

<p>Do you think I will get an admission? assuming my 2 years of work experience at a bank, consulting firm. Impressive recommendation letters from professors at either Seoul national university or yonsei, great TOEFL , TOPIK score and a decent GRE score. Will these make up for my bad GPA and guarantee that I can do the work????? </p>

<p>PS: I'm still having doubts as if its the time to consider going to grad school. I have a position lined up abroad i'm guessing the pay is decent at least higher than what i'm getting now. But I can't say its something that I'm passionate about. Should I take the job and give myself more time to think or just forget about it all and go for grad school? I am confused</p>

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<p>This board is primarily for entrance to US grad schools. Perhaps some people can comment on UK and/or Canadian schools, but you may not get a lot of useful advice about Korean universities. I don’t know what the requirements are to get into Korean universities for a Korean language and literature program.</p>

<p>I know in the US, if you didn’t already know Korean studying it for a year would not be anywhere near enough - and I’m assuming it’s the same at the nation’s top universities. I also know that here in the US, your two years of work experience in consulting wouldn’t matter for a program in Korean language & literature. They’d want to see whether you had experience within the field of Korean language & lit and if you knew how to do any scholarly research in that area, or if you had experience using it in an applied setting in a way that the program deems sufficient for preparation. Your GPA will be one of the most important considerations of your application, but sometimes people are able to offset low GPAs by excellent experiences in the field and great recommendations from professors. (High standardized test scores generally do not make up for low GPAs.)</p>