I will be graduating next semester with hopefully a 2.85 with a BS in Biology. I haven’t exactly done much over my undergrad career. I’ve tried time and time again to apply for internships, but failed. I tried to get jobs in the laboratories on campus but that failed too – I wasn’t eligible for work study. It was easier with my learning disability over my college career to not work a normal job. I just tried to focus on studying! Basically, I feel very mediocre.

I go to a pretty good school in Massachusetts and I would like to work in a lab after graduation. Thing is, to get anywhere in laboratory science I feel you should get a graduate degree.

I would like to go to Umass Lowell for Clinical Laboratory Science but they “recommend” a 3.0 GPA at least. Would my chances of being accepted to the graduate program increase drastically if I took graduate certificate classes there and did well?