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Additional Courses - Making up for Low GPA 05 Mar 2019, 13:50
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Hi All,

I am from India and i completed my undergrads in Engineering not from one of the Top College but from a Good Known Private College. My CGPA is 5.2/10 which as per university conversion chart converts to 60% marks. My GPA as per US standards converts to something around 2.4 if calculated from CGPA value, but using the 60% mark as standard it converts to 3.0.

Anyways, to cover-up for my academic shortcomings with GPA, I plan to take up some additional courses for additional transcripts. A few shortlisted by me are on Business Analytics & Product Management, as they relate to my MBA mission as well. I came across a couple of Instructor-Led courses by Boston University for these topics on edX.org

My concern here is that would these online courses and their credits be considered as valid additional transcripts and help me make up for my Undergrad GPA?
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Hi All,

I am from India and i completed my undergrads in Engineering not from one of the Top College but from a Good Known Private College. My CGPA is 5.2/10 which as per university conversion chart converts to 60% marks. My GPA as per US standards converts to something around 2.4 if calculated from CGPA value, but using the 60% mark as standard it converts to 3.0.

Anyways, to cover-up for my academic shortcomings with GPA, I plan to take up some additional courses for additional transcripts. A few shortlisted by me are on Business Analytics & Product Management, as they relate to my MBA mission as well. I came across a couple of Instructor-Led courses by Boston University for these topics on edX.org

My concern here is that would these online courses and their credits be considered as valid additional transcripts and help me make up for my Undergrad GPA?
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Suggest you to instead take courses in Math, econ and statistics if you are trying to build up an alternate transcript. Check out MBAMath.com as a good place to get started.