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- legalease9
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Re: 5-year program GPA
Double Degree is an interesting soft, but its not going to make your GPA look any different.
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Re: 5-year program GPA
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- im_blue
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Re: 5-year program GPA
Wishful thinking. You'll be judged as a 3.24, same as any other 3.24. Actually, maybe even slightly less, since the B.Mus. sounds like a performance major from a music conservatory, and not academic courses.
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- merichard87
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Re: 5-year program GPA
Your 3.24 will still be a 3.24. As another poster said, it will be an interesting soft if anything and I am a double major (2 degrees) in Electrical and Computer Engineering and it was very hard for me to accept that them degrees don't mean shit.
- im_blue
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Re: 5-year program GPA
Because if I'm the adcom, maybe I see a BA liberal arts and a B.Mus. with a 3.24 average, and I assume that you got a ~3.0 in the BA classes and a ~3.4 in the B.Mus. classes, which tend to have inflated grades. Maybe your particular B.Mus. doesn't inflate grades, but the fact that almost every other one does, will form their impression of it. Of course, looking at your transcript will show that may or may not be the case, but that's the first impression they'll get.sanetruth wrote:ok with all due respect, i do not see how an additional degree, taken concurrently, and with equal or better performance, can DETRACT from another degree. say my GPA for each degree was equal, 3.24 for my BA and 3.24 for my B.Mus, how can it make any sense that my overall GPA should be considered something BELOW a 3.24? Keep in mind that, regardless of your concern about how 'academic' the music program was, it was taken at the same time as my liberal arts program, and actually required me to take more credits/semester than normal college students.im_blue wrote:Wishful thinking. You'll be judged as a 3.24, same as any other 3.24. Actually, maybe even slightly less, since the B.Mus. sounds like a performance major from a music conservatory, and not academic courses.
that being said, i will accept your former determination that my 3.24 will stand as it is.
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Re: 5-year program GPA
They'll have transcripts so no.im_blue wrote:Because if I'm the adcom, maybe I see a BA liberal arts and a B.Mus. with a 3.24 average, and I assume that you got a ~3.0 in the BA classes and a ~3.4 in the B.Mus. classes, which tend to have inflated grades. Maybe your particular B.Mus. doesn't inflate grades, but the fact that almost every other one does, will form their impression of it. Of course, looking at your transcript will show that may or may not be the case, but that's the first impression they'll get.sanetruth wrote:ok with all due respect, i do not see how an additional degree, taken concurrently, and with equal or better performance, can DETRACT from another degree. say my GPA for each degree was equal, 3.24 for my BA and 3.24 for my B.Mus, how can it make any sense that my overall GPA should be considered something BELOW a 3.24? Keep in mind that, regardless of your concern about how 'academic' the music program was, it was taken at the same time as my liberal arts program, and actually required me to take more credits/semester than normal college students.im_blue wrote:Wishful thinking. You'll be judged as a 3.24, same as any other 3.24. Actually, maybe even slightly less, since the B.Mus. sounds like a performance major from a music conservatory, and not academic courses.
that being said, i will accept your former determination that my 3.24 will stand as it is.
But you are still a 3.24, no and ifs or buts about it.