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I am considering the prospect of completing a masters degree at a Korean university because my long term plans are to permanently relocate to Korea. I am American, and will complete undergraduate majors in English Literature and Second Language Education Studies and minors in diversity and possibly Korea Studies (I haven’t decided yet on the second). As of right now my University of Washington GPA is 3.69 after a little over a year of study, although I expect that it will go up over the course of the next year because my quarterly GPA has steadily increased since I became a UW student until it finally capped last quarter with a solid 4.0 quarterly GPA.

Although my recent grades are quite good my concern is that my early college course work is not so spectacular. Some quarters my GPA was within the 2.0 range, and a couple were even lower than that at the 2 year schools I attended before transferring. I wonder if these academic blemishes on my transcript will hurt my competitiveness for admission to graduate programs at the more prestigious Korean universities (Yonsei, Sogang, and SNL) to the point that it is not worth my time (or money) to bother with their application processes.

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