What is the right age to graduate from an undergraduate college? Is 22 too old?
The "right" age to graduate is whatever age you are when you've fulfilled the requirements to obtain your degree--and even that is debatable.In the US, most people are 18 when they begin college. Thus many graduates are 22 when they finish a 4-year program on time.Some programs actually require a 5th year (or 10 semesters' worth of credits), so students are often older than 22 when they finish.Others, like me, go to college rather late. I opted for a heavy course load and finished quicker than 4 years, but was 27 when I graduated. At the time this felt "late," but my previous experience and relative maturity helped me get ahead quickly in the workplace, and at 30 I feel like I'm "on time" in my career progression (unless I'm using Zuckerberg as a benchmark!).
What are my chances of getting into Temple University as a transfer student?
My son and DIL both graduated from Temple, and got great educations, and landed jobs right after graduating. You need to find an advisor in the admissions office to talk to - they cannot give you a definite yes or not, but can tell you what your strengths are, and any parts of your education that might be lacking. You probably will NOT be able to finish in 4 total years - transfer students always lose some credits - and you do not say what year you are in college. Past a certain point, this is not feasible. But you need to email/call/write and TALK to someone who can really help - I do not think you will find anyone here who can really tell you what YOU need to know. All the best!
3.3 College GPA! Is that a really BAD gpa? Please read my whole question before answering!?
I am a Junior in college right now, and my GPA right now is between 2.7 and 3.0 which I kow is really bad, BUT while getting this gpa I had 3 part time jobs and 1 unpaid internship (which basically means 4 jobs), and I am a full time college student taking 15 credit hour classes. But I also have four more semesters to go including this Fall Semester. So when I calculated my grades for the next four semester like if I make all straight A's with just 1 or 2 B's the maximum my GPA can reach is to a 3.3 by the time I graduate, (and I am also studying hard to get those straight A's). Would 3.3 be a bad gpa considering that I had 4 part time jobs while being a full time student? [And I was also in the honors roll in my college during my freshman year, and then my grades gradually started going down because of all the jobs that I have to do to pay for my college ofcourse, and during the spring semester of my freshman year I had missed around 10 days of classes as I got sick and couldn't get out of bed and my car broke down at the same time. I am not trying to give excuses but all that added to my grades going down, BUT my gpa never went down below 2.7......] and now I am getting all A's and a few B's, but what I am worried about is I plan on going to grad school and the maximum gpa I can get even with 4 semesters left is a 3.3! I just feel terrible that my GPA is soooooo low. Will I be able to get into a good grad school with that GPA? And, my major is BA in Econ & Finance.....and so I want to do my Masters in Finance or may be even Accounting because my average in accounting right now is an A+......Please any genuine advice would be really helpful! Has anyone been accepted to grad school with such a low GPA?????
BRUNEL vs MIDDLESEX . Which university Should i choose .... continue reading......?
hi . i m an average student . i want to apply to some universities in and around london . please tell some good universities that i can apply to . i dont mind even if the university is about 80 km from london . one of my friends told me to choose between Brunel and Middlesex . please tell me which one is good and also advice me on other universities . THANK YOU VERY MUCH ....
What is your opinion on allowing university students to have their degree read "Baccalaureate" or "Magisteriate" instead of "Bachelors" and "Masters"?
The “Baccalaureate” is the French exam every student must pass as an equivalent of a high-school diploma, so that would be confusing to me. It’s used in a variety of contexts in other countries as well, but usually for a more junior degree than the American four-year program.Personally, I’m a big fan of just making so-called “masculine” terms gender-neutral. This has happened with a lot of words; for example, nobody refers to female doctors as “Doctoresses” anymore; the word “doctor” is now gender-neutral.Any time someone tries to create a female-only equivalent to a male-sounding word, it sets my hackles up because the “female” equivalents so often have negative connotations due to sexism. For example, some people try to call female Time-Lords “Time-Ladies.” Screw that. If I’m playing a Time-Lord, I’m a lord. What’s wrong with calling women lords? I can certainly lord it over people with the best of them.Ditto with “Master.” “Mistress” is just a crappy term. Instead of inventing a brand new one that’s gender-neutral, let’s just agree that both men and women can master subjects, and stop assigning gender to a word that has no reason to be gendered.Now, with the Bachelor’s degree—I think that the term “bachelor” is obsolete anyway. Why do we make formal distinctions between married and unmarried people when marriage no longer has anything to do with status or title? Let’s just repurpose “Bachelor” to mean “[gender-neutral] person who has earned a 4-year degree.”
What did you think college reading and writing would be like?
Writing an essay on what other people thought reading and writing would be like in college. Did you think it was going to be on a more advanced level that would be extremely difficult? What had you heard about it growing up? What did you think the textbooks would be like? If you went to college, what was different from what you thought it would be like? Or was it the same? Did you struggle or was it easy? Any other info you feel like you'd like to add, please feel free to do so. Thank you in advance.
Which are the best colleges in India for an MSc in physics?
First of all the question should be on best universities & colleges; Well…I can honestly say this is a critical question but let me try.Apart from IITs, IISERs, and the research institutes like HRI, TIFR, IISc, IIA, ICTS, IMSc, IACS, SNBNCBS etc; the best colleges which offer MSc physics are (All the lists are not by rank):Presidency University/ Presidency College, KolkataSt. Xavier's College, KolkataPresidency College, ChennaiMadras Christian College, ChennaiLoyola College, ChennaiSt. Anns College for Women, HyderabadChrist University/ Christ College, BengaluruFergusson College, PuneBITS Pilani, PilaniVellore Institute of Technology, VelloreSt. Stephen's College, DelhiHindu College, DelhiHans Raj College, DelhiMiranda House (for Women), Delhiand so on.#N.B. The above four colleges of Delhi is affiliated under Delhi University. And the MSc classes are generally taught at the Dept. of Physics & Astrophysics, North Campus, DU. DU don't offer MSc directly, You’ll have to be admitted in any one of their affiliated colleges that offer MSc Physics.Now the best universities are as follows:University of Delhi, DelhiJawaharlal Nehru University, DelhiBanaras Hindu University, VaranasiPune University, PuneUniversity of Hyderabad, HyderabadJadavpur University, KolkataUniversity of Calcutta, KolkataPanjab University, PunjabJamia Millia Islamia, DelhiGauhati University, Guwahatietc. This is just a try, I’m sure there could be more Better. Thank you.*You can drop me messages for specifics.
Why did Aligarh Muslim University bar girls from entering the library?
Full disclosure: I studied at AMU from 2005-2011, I completed my 11th and 12th grades there and then studied at the Engineering College. (Reason for making myself anonymous: I do not want the Hindutva brigade to start terrorizing me and family because they might not agree with my answer, in parts)Let me begin by thanking you for asking this question. Considering the state of the non fact checking media, I think there is a need to clarify a lot of points. Lets begin with the facts:Fact : The Maulana Azad Library (which is the central library of AMU) is open to post graduate students, irrespective of gender. Specifically, if you pop your head in the PG reading room, you shall find a lot of girls studying there. So, the statement that the university has barred girls is factually incorrect.Fact: Libraries of the medical, engineering, and (possibly) the law schools at Aligarh are all co educational. I can definitely vouch for the Engineering and the Medical College libraries since I have personally visited them. Generally these college libraries are better stocked with books related to the college's expertise than the main library is. What I found, while at AMU, was that students of different colleges generally studies at their own college libraries or departmental seminars. The majority of the crowd at the central library was of students from the BSc/BA programs (I may be wrong in assuming this, please feel free to bring in statistics countering this).The way the media has portrayed the situation, at least to me, is as follows: The Aligarh Muslim University has a blanket ban on women accessing the libraries. In reality, the issue is that the undergraduate girls who study at the Women's College (an undergraduate college maintained by AMU) have demanded access to the central library. This does not mean that there is no library access for these undergraduates, as far as I remember there is a library in the Women's College, which was (at least when I was studying at AMU) was claimed to be well stocked with relevant material. It was also known that material needed by the Women's College library was made available to them by the central library quite fast. So technically, every student at AMU has access to libraries related to their field of study.I hope I have cleared out some confusion as to if there are bans in AMU on women's access to educational resources.