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Hi All,
I had really bad GPA when I did my undergraduate degree in Mathematics India, except for one Physics course that I did and did very well at. I won't bore anyone with the details, but it was basically because I just felt unmotivated.
Now I am older by 10 years, somewhat wiser and work full time as a software engineer but want to go back to studying Physics.
I did some graduate Mathematics courses (Differential Topology, Complex Analsyis and some more that are related to Physics) at the CSU through their open university system. All in all around 28 credits in graduate Mathematics courses with a 3.2 GPA. Then I enrolled in the MS Physics program at SJSU(they wouldn't admit me earlier because of my low grades and had asked me to do some related courses at either CSU before I applied), and have now maintained
a GPA of 3.7 in the core graduate Physics courses( Classical Mech, Quantum Mech, Jackson) and the electives while working full time as a Software Engineer.
Would any graduate school overlook my undergrad grades that are extremely poor and consider me for the PhD program?
Thanks,
Anurag
I had really bad GPA when I did my undergraduate degree in Mathematics India, except for one Physics course that I did and did very well at. I won't bore anyone with the details, but it was basically because I just felt unmotivated.
Now I am older by 10 years, somewhat wiser and work full time as a software engineer but want to go back to studying Physics.
I did some graduate Mathematics courses (Differential Topology, Complex Analsyis and some more that are related to Physics) at the CSU through their open university system. All in all around 28 credits in graduate Mathematics courses with a 3.2 GPA. Then I enrolled in the MS Physics program at SJSU(they wouldn't admit me earlier because of my low grades and had asked me to do some related courses at either CSU before I applied), and have now maintained
a GPA of 3.7 in the core graduate Physics courses( Classical Mech, Quantum Mech, Jackson) and the electives while working full time as a Software Engineer.
Would any graduate school overlook my undergrad grades that are extremely poor and consider me for the PhD program?
Thanks,
Anurag