Reflective Essay On College Education

I’d like to discuss two things in my additional essay (1) My undergraduate GPA and (2) A few gaps in my work experience. First and foremost, I want to talk a little about Bits Pilani and how Indian schools approach undergraduate education.

The Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS, Pilani) admits students through a competitive online exam, which tests in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Of the hundred thousand plus applicants that take the admissions test every year, only the top 1,000 are admitted to Pilani campus. The first two years of the program is common for all students and is heavily weighted with classes in Physics, Chemistry, Maths and Biology. Since all the incoming students were chosen based on their strength in these science subjects and BITS follows a relative grading system, the competition for grades is intense in the first two years, when the courses are common to students from all academic disciplines.

Also, BITS had followed a grading system involving only even grades of 10(A), 8(B), 6(C), 4(D), E(2) until year 2011, resulting in lower average gpa, with the average graduating GPA for a civil engineering major of a 6 (converts to a C). Only in academic year 2012 were the odd
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