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« Reply #15 on: December 03, 2009, 04:58:20 PM » |
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The variance in grades among Ph.D students is smaller, therefore GPA means less. In my program, we need a 3.5 to even remain on fellowship, and anything below a B doesn't count! So if you get a B in a Ph.D-level course you may be in some hot water, whereas for an undergrad course Bs typically make up the majority of the grades.
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« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2010, 09:53:52 AM » |
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Dear Forumites,
Please help me with this: I have two B+ in my Ph.D humanities program, but I have published three articles in top tier journals and I am active in presenting at conferences. Should I have any worry about my academic future?
Thanks!
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2010, 11:36:02 AM » |
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Dear Forumites,
Please help me with this: I have two B+ in my Ph.D humanities program, but I have published three articles in top tier journals and I am active in presenting at conferences. Should I have any worry about my academic future?
Thanks!
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« Reply #18 on: January 27, 2010, 10:24:19 AM » |
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Dear Forumites,
Please help me with this: I have two B+ in my Ph.D humanities program, but I have published three articles in top tier journals and I am active in presenting at conferences. Should I have any worry about my academic future?
Thanks!
I agree with the most recent poster. Two B's aren't your concern. I just looked at the NSFs report of PhDs, and your biggest concern right now is a job market that isn't getting any bigger because, frankly, humanities profs aren't retiring. Looking at the trending data, you're talking about 20+ years of sucky hiring in the humanities, which I find terrifying. Good luck, and I mean that. |
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« Reply #19 on: January 27, 2010, 03:32:32 PM » |
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Thank you very much for these excellent advices. As a graduate student in the Humanities I am very concerned about my future.
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« Reply #20 on: January 28, 2010, 11:03:15 PM » |
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<- PhD student and has Bs, guess that means I am a moron.
Isn't college and classes about learning, or is it about getting fancy letter grades? If I get a B it probably means I either didn't grasp the concept right away or my prior knowledge was lacking. (Other factors like iron fisted teachers and personal issues can be a factor too.)
I have never given a rodent's butt about my grades, if that is what keeps me from a job then I didn't want that job anyway. Too many students take the get A's or die thing seriously, grades are not the end all measure of knowledge.
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« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2010, 12:42:42 AM » |
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I had a 3.73 out of my PhD. Department mean was 3.72 (whee, I am above average). I landed a TT job, have moved up the ranks. Luck had a lot to do with it, but having a good advisor and a good research project/diss yielded a pretty good outcome. I knew lots of folks who got better grades, utilized grander phonemes than did I, and claimed to understand Foucault. Some number of them started their post-graduate careers delivering round, flat tomato-sauce-and-cheese based food products to undergrads. Oh, how I envy their 3.98 GPAs.
Moral: forget about the GPA. Just graduate.
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« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2010, 11:42:54 AM » |
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I had a 3.73 out of my PhD. Department mean was 3.72 (whee, I am above average). I landed a TT job, have moved up the ranks. Luck had a lot to do with it, but having a good advisor and a good research project/diss yielded a pretty good outcome. I knew lots of folks who got better grades, utilized grander phonemes than did I, and claimed to understand Foucault. Some number of them started their post-graduate careers delivering round, flat tomato-sauce-and-cheese based food products to undergrads. Oh, how I envy their 3.98 GPAs.
Moral: forget about the GPA. Just graduate.
I'll second that. If I'm checking a transcript, it's to a) make sure that the candidate in fact holds a PhD, or b) if it's from a place where one of my pals teaches, I want to see if they took a course with said pal so that I can have something slightly less boring to say during an interview. |
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« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2010, 08:37:14 PM » |
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Thank you for reassuring me. As I said previously, I am doing fine in terms of publishing and presenting at conferences. But this second B+ was truly a blow to me. I will continue to work hard at what really matters in order to upgrade my chances at getting a job when I am done. Again, thanks a lot for taking the time to help.
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« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2010, 02:47:46 PM » |
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I will look at you transcripts to see what courses you could possibly teach and that is about it.
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