GPA Addendum
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2014 10:34 pm
Background: This addendum is meant to be read in conjunction with a PS about being an at risk kid who got it together...eventually.
Conducting research about the academic outcomes of people from my background has given me much to think about regarding the poor start to my own academic career, but it would be disingenuous to make excuses. The only factor that changed was me.
Immaturity led to a poor performance, but I am hopeful that being able to maintain above a 3.9 for the last 70 semester units while working a full-time job and taking a full-time course load provides a large enough sample size to prove my turnaround is no flash in the pan.
Conducting research about the academic outcomes of people from my background has given me much to think about regarding the poor start to my own academic career, but it would be disingenuous to make excuses. The only factor that changed was me.
Immaturity led to a poor performance, but I am hopeful that being able to maintain above a 3.9 for the last 70 semester units while working a full-time job and taking a full-time course load provides a large enough sample size to prove my turnaround is no flash in the pan.