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I don't think my grad program read my narrative evals. Their process is to basically make a stack of applicants and anybody with a GPA lower than 3.5 or so is
by dekhn 3y ago
I don't think my grad program read my narrative evals. Their process is to basically make a stack of applicants and anybody with a GPA lower than 3.5 or so is rejected without any further inspection. An application without a GPA would also be rejected immediately. Fortunately, my conversion table ("Excellent = 4.0, Very Good = 3.5") made the cutoff!
- musicale 3y agoGPAs encouraging and facilitating laziness in graduate admissions doesn't seem like a good justification for them.
- dekhn 3y agoIt's not laziness: if you've got a stack of 100 applicants and a couple hours to produce a list of 15 candidates, it's entirely reasonable to filter out all the applications which have disqualifying errors as quickly as possible.
- musicale 3y agoHeaven forbid that graduate admissions would have to spend more than a 1 or 2 minutes reviewing an application!