multiple undergrads Forum
- FlanAl
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multiple undergrads
So I started out at my local state school and hated it. I then transfered to community college to save some money. At the end of the academic year I decided to transfer to a university in the UK. None of my units transferred so I had to start over as a freshman. The summer after my freshman year I decided to take language classes for fun at 2 different community colleges.
So all told I have 4 transcripts I'm guessing I need some kind of addendum for this? Do I need to talk about why I left my first schools or just sort of write out the timeline.
I have good grades at all of the institutions except for one. It's the one where I took arabic over the summer, should I explain this (like I was just taking the class for fun)?
Thanks for any advice
So all told I have 4 transcripts I'm guessing I need some kind of addendum for this? Do I need to talk about why I left my first schools or just sort of write out the timeline.
I have good grades at all of the institutions except for one. It's the one where I took arabic over the summer, should I explain this (like I was just taking the class for fun)?
Thanks for any advice
- JazzOne
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Re: multiple undergrads
I think a short addendum is in order here. Don't get overly dramatic. A slight elaboration to what you've written here will suffice.FlanAl wrote:So I started out at my local state school and hated it. I then transfered to community college to save some money. At the end of the academic year I decided to transfer to a university in the UK. None of my units transferred so I had to start over as a freshman. The summer after my freshman year I decided to take language classes for fun at 2 different community colleges.
So all told I have 4 transcripts I'm guessing I need some kind of addendum for this? Do I need to talk about why I left my first schools or just sort of write out the timeline.
I have good grades at all of the institutions except for one. It's the one where I took arabic over the summer, should I explain this (like I was just taking the class for fun)?
Thanks for any advice
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Re: multiple undergrads
I took Chinese for fun my freshman year and got the lowest grades of my undergrad in Chinese 101 and 102. I wouldn't write an explanation for why you earned lower grades in Arabic.
- JazzOne
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Re: multiple undergrads
Fair enough. My advice was more pertaining to his odd set of transcripts. I think that deserves some explanation.quetzal_bird wrote:I took Chinese for fun my freshman year and got the lowest grades of my undergrad in Chinese 101 and 102. I wouldn't write an explanation for why you earned lower grades in Arabic.
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- FlanAl
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Re: multiple undergrads
I'm definitely not going to try and explain the arabic grade away. i don't get an lsac gpa so i'm sure it doesn't matter. the confusing thing from their point of view would be why i returned to community college and to 2 different ones. I figured I should explain this since they contributed in no way to the obtaining of my degree as simply me taking some fun summer language classes.
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Re: multiple undergrads
I have a similar transcript. Started at a regular UG, took a year off to make $, went to community, returned at the original UG. Most of the schools asked for a short statement explaining the break, so I used the few lines provided. I didn't want to try to submit too many materials for adcomms.
- FlanAl
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Re: multiple undergrads
any chance of you using that to your advantage? something like became more mature and academically focused? do you think it hurt you at all?LSATclincher wrote:I have a similar transcript. Started at a regular UG, took a year off to make $, went to community, returned at the original UG. Most of the schools asked for a short statement explaining the break, so I used the few lines provided. I didn't want to try to submit too many materials for adcomms.
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It certainly helped me. I think my "upward GPA trend" should infer that. I choose to focus my PS on experience. I didn't write an addendum.FlanAl wrote:any chance of you using that to your advantage? something like became more mature and academically focused? do you think it hurt you at all?LSATclincher wrote:I have a similar transcript. Started at a regular UG, took a year off to make $, went to community, returned at the original UG. Most of the schools asked for a short statement explaining the break, so I used the few lines provided. I didn't want to try to submit too many materials for adcomms.
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Re: multiple undergrads
I went to 2 community colleges and then transferred to a state school. There was a 10-year break in between. I wrote addendum for schools that ask for academic breaks and did not include them to other schools. I think you are fine not submitting an explanation if they don't ask for it.