How Can I Improve My Marks for Graduate School?

[michael.wes]

Hi all,

I recently got my grades back for the fall term, and I already knew they wouldn't be very good by the way the exams went (74 in rings/fields, 80 in real analysis/metric spaces). I'm worried that they will impact my chances for graduate school, and I am wondering about other people's perspective on this. Will it suffice to just better my grades from now on in my pure math courses? Do you think taking more than five courses in a term and doing well would help how my transcript looks?

Thanks for any and all replies!

MW

 

[TMFKAN64]

If you take more courses and *don't* do well, then you are totally hosed.

Take a regular load, just do *much* better. Figure out why you didn't get good marks, and remedy this. That's the way out...

 

[twofish-quant]

Take a regular load, just do *much* better. Figure out why you didn't get good marks, and remedy this. That's the way out...

Also have a realistic notion of what constitutes a good score. Depending on how they grade, 74% and 80% might be a high score, or not.