When applying to a different school for graduate school from another college. What does the graduate school look at to determine whether you get in? I have heard things like they don’t even look to high school, all the way to they treat it just like getting out of high school.
I am asking because if they don’t even look at high school grades then I could go anywhere. I have a bad GPA but great ACT/SAT so I can’t go anywhere very well straight out of high school, but I want to know if I work hard when getting bachelor degree could I go somewhere much nicer.
grad schools don’t care about HS.
HS is completely irrelevant to grad school. What will matter (which & how much varies depending on the grad school and the program) is:
- your undergraduate record (GPA, coursework);
- relevant test scores (GMAT/GRE/LSAT/MCAT/etc);
- experience (internships, work, research, etc.);
- Statement of Purpose (essay on what your objectives are); and
- LoR.
They look at the last 2 years of college and your GRE/GMAT test scores.
Some Unis, perhaps, but the big dogs consider cum GPA, as well as major GPA. A bunch of C’s in Frosh/Soph year just ain’t gonna cut it for Harvard, Yale, Stanford et al.
Wow, thank you for the responses. This news is amazing