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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:50 pm
by timfa
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Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:53 pm
by 20130312
No addendum for a 3.79.
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You ass.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:54 pm
by timfa
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Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:54 pm
by Ozymandias
No. They can see you graduated in three years, and "the first year of neuroscience was hard" isn't a legitimate reason for an addendum.
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:55 pm
by 09042014
You think you are the only one who took Calc 1, Physics I, II and basic chemistry?
Writing that addendum should hurt your chances, but who knows what it would actually do.
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:56 pm
by bp shinners
OP10010 wrote:Redacted at OP's request.
For posterity -
If you're reading this for some reason, don't write an addendum for having a hard course load or an upward trend when your GPA is 3.75+. If you want to get a difficult course load into your application, have a professor mention it in a Letter of Recommendation. If you majored in a hard science, that doesn't give reason for a diversity statement.
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:58 pm
by timfa
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Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 3:59 pm
by 20130312
timfa wrote:i look at it as a type of intellectual diversity
It's almost like you want me to say mean things to you.
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:01 pm
by Ozymandias
InGoodFaith wrote:timfa wrote:i look at it as a type of intellectual diversity
It's almost like you want me to say mean things to you.

Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:06 pm
by timfa
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Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:09 pm
by kalvano
The best thing about this thread is the return of Harvey.
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:10 pm
by Colonel Angus
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:11 pm
by timfa
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Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:42 pm
by Tom Joad
You will fit right in at Harvard, OP.
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:14 pm
by mr.hands
You sound like an ass. Stop
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:23 pm
by JohnV
No need for an addendum. They will see your classes and your grades including your upward trend and the fact, they've seen it all before. Don't irritate them by making them read something they already know.
Advice more or less directly from Anna Ivey's guide.
EDIT: This post wasn't that bad... he had a concern because his GPA is below the median for the schools he wanted to go to and was a little naive about the application process. You guys are so quick to join in on the feeding frenzy. How does it turn out that the presumptive asshole (not that the OP was, in this case) in the OP is consistently out-assholed by the rest of the posters?
Re: Graduated in 3 years, 1 year was pre-med - addendu for 3.79?
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 4:17 am
by expelliarmus
I would write an addendum only when there is a true family emergency/medical situation, etc.
However, I think your situation is just one of the generic situations, and writing an addendum will only show that you are not so strong in some academic areas.
And they can see they you graduated in three years from your transcript.