Alternative Transcripts
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12 Sep 2020, 21:47
Hi,
I'm planning to apply to schools in R2 and need help deciding the best classes for an alternative transcript.
With COVID shutting out everything in-person, I'm afraid I'm only left with only online options (e.g MOOCs), all of which (at least the ones I checked) are graded on a pass/fail basis. From my past research, I understand that these courses are not as effective in impressing adcoms.
I'm likely going to take MOOCs anyway just so something is better than nothing, but if anyone can point me to some alternative-transcript-quality classes online, that'd be wonderful. For what it's worth, I'm currently completing mbamath.com and got a certificate a while back via MOOCs; I'm hoping the effort implied in getting a certificate (and not just passing a course) will help compensate for the fact that it's a MOOC.
If helpful, my overall GPA falls right on or within the acceptable average of my target schools, but I'm trying to make up for a few bad apples in my higher-level quant classes - think Calculus III, Numbers Analysis, Diff EQs - and these are not easy to find online. Given that these are higher-level quant-courses, the fact that I managed to do okay in them might be enough to show I have enough chops for the MBA classroom, in which case I might just be overkilling with the alt transcript, but I prefer not taking chances.
Any thoughts, advice, or insight on alternative transcripts and mitigating a few low courses, in general, will be helpful. Thank you!