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I'm applying to a fairly selective applied social sciences master's program at a prestigious school in the US. When I did my original 3 year undergrad degree 10 years ago, my grades were abysmal. My target school only looks at upper division coursework, in which my GPA was around 2.

The GPA cutoff for this program is normally 3.0 but if your department wants to admit you, they can make exceptions.

I'm about to finish upgrading to a 4 year bachelor's, for which I took 18 credit hours. (My classes end next week.) I expect my GPA just in these recent 18 hours to be 3.8. Because of the number of failed classes I had in my 3 year degree, this will at best bump my upper division GPA to 2.5, so I'll still have to ask for a GPA exception.

Are 18 credit hours enough recent evidence of improvement to be compelling? I'm considering taking some extra post bac coursework this semester to try to gather more As. Not sure if it's worth my time and money.

I have two professors and two former managers as recommenders, and my GRE is 170 v / 161 q.

I'm an international student applying to the graduate school. According to the UT website, your GPA is calculated based on your upper division undergraduate coursework. If you repeat a course, are both attempts counted, or just the second attempt?

I'm trying to boost my transcript for grad school admissions and looking into doing some online courses, ideally self-paced as I need to make sure to have my grades submitted by January 1. My target school only looks at your grades in 3rd and 4th year courses. Athabasca is quite expensive and TRU doesn't have a lot of options. Are there any other schools I could look into for this?

Thoughts? I'm not in a degree program, just trying to boost my transcript for grad school admissions. I'm a good writer and not great at math, although I still wouldn't want an insanely writing heavy course.

I took the GRE last year with 170 V, 161 Q, 4 AW. I know this is considered an "okay" score, but the program I'm applying to is moderately selective and my undergraduate grades weren't outstanding. The GRE is optional but I'm trying to use it to bolster my profile. I'm embarrassed of my AW score and I felt I could have done better on Q if I'd used my time more effectively. I'm applying to HCI, so it's technically STEM but the most math I'll have to do is a stats course or two. Any thoughts?

Edit: duh, forgot to mention I'm applying to professional master's programs.

What really drew me in about this book is not just the content, which is compelling and heartbreaking, but McCurdy's writing style. She is deadpan, ironic, darkly humorous and never self-pitying. I felt like I was drinking wine with my sister and commiserating about our fucked up childhood. Since my relationship with my sister is too fucked up from our fucked up childhood to have that experience for real, any other books I could read with this wryly funny approach to trauma? Nonfiction memoir only please.

Every time I get an idea and start mapping it out into a story I end up concluding it's trash and giving up on it. This isn't about looking at my writing and thinking it's shit, it's about not even wanting to follow through with writing things because they all seem so stupid to me.

I just go through every day hoping tomorrow I'll have enough energy to do anything.

A 20th-century sonnet.

- I visited New York and Montreal around the same time in 2014 and went to a lot of museums in both cities. While I believe the painting was in New York, it could have been in Montreal.

- The style appeared to be 19th century realism, similar to Bouguereau (might even have been him), Sargent or Milais. Not impressionist or post-impressionist.

- Adolescent girl was standing in a field in grey/brown peasant clothing, leaning on a staff and looking directly at the viewer. Her full body was visible.

- It was *not* Bouguereau's The Harvest Girl.

Help appreciated.

I did 4 weeks of 0.25 and I'm now on my 4th week of 0.5. I know I'm not on a therapeutic dose yet but I still can't stop binge eating. I'm feeling absolutely nothing and I can't even imagine a dose increase making a difference. Please tell me this isn't for nothing.

By contemporary I roughly mean the last 40 years or so.

Admittedly, I am completely new to romance novels, never read one in my life. But I want to get a feel for how romantic comedy can be done well in contemporary writing. And a big problem I have with contemporary genre fiction is the "cinematic" prose style that's overly focused on visuals and sarcastic quips that really work better on screen than in writing. I assume that probably carries over to romance as well.

Can anyone suggest romcom books that escape that pitfall? Thanks!