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[quote=Anonymous]DD is a recent college graduate who majored in communications. She is dead set on going to graduate school for a dual journalism/computer science masters degree because her career end goal is sports journalism and data analysis. She took the GRE last year without studying and did pretty well on it, but not well enough to get into the target score range for getting into the top-three schools she wants to go to, although the scores were in the target range for other top--tens. Her undergrad GPA was around a 2.7 at a very difficult school because she worked and played a sport all the way through undergrad, but her portfolio has been reviewed by a few top-5 schools and she was told it was excellent.

She recently moved back home with us (we are no longer in DC) and is planning to live here for a year to save on rent, and we are totally okay with it as long as she pays for her food, car, etc. and doesn't make it unbearable for DH and I to get things done. Right now she is planning to work retail part time, write for a publication part time and study for the GRE and take it again in October or November so she can have everything together before the December application deadlines.

If anyone else has BTDT, is this the right way for DD to be spending her year off before grad school or should she be looking for a full time internship or job in a position that might not be exactly what she wants? Does anyone have any tips for DD in navigating grad school applications? Is grad school even reasonable for someone with a lower undergrad GPA but with good test scores and portfolio? I have no experience with this type of thing and she is my oldest so I feel pretty clueless.[/quote]

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