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[eng00]

In my MA program, students are required to maintain nine credit hours in order to get their tuition paid for.  However, if a student teaches, the department allows the student to sign up for a non-course (one in which you don't do anything or get a real grade) just for the purpose of maintaining credit hours.  A "T" goes on the transcript for the course.  Do you think that this would be a problem when applying to Ph.D. programs.  The "T" stands for temporary, and there is a code on the transcripts, but the grade is not changed.

[msparticularity]

I think you could address this by adding an explanation in your application letter, near the end: "Please note that on my transcripts there is a T for each semester. This is done by my department to allow teaching assistants to maintain the minimum course enrollment for tuition purposes."

[luibh]

Depends on if you are sending official or unofficial transcripts. I would wager that your official transcripts have a legend on the back that explain the different codes on the transcript. All of mine do.

Are there lots of "T" grades? If not and there is only 1, I wouldn't worry about it. If you have taught several classes and have several "T" grades, then it might be beneficial to point out the code and the number of classes you have taught in your cover letter as msparticularity has suggested.

[jwormold]

Dude, I have Fs, Ws, and Us. (Um, I was a flake when it came to dropping classes? And one of those was yoga, so...)

I've done fine. Seriously. Got fellowships. Got jobs. But what Msparticularity said is good advice.

[andreapsy]

see my post to this thread.
http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,57088.0.html

In many fields, your MA work will matter little. In the admissions committees I've served, we did not care what you did in grad school, unless you had Cs. We were much more interested in your undergraduate transcript. A.