<p>Well, this is a question on behalf of my friend.</p>
<p>Are there any good civil engineering schools in the U.S. that don't really look at high GPAs? Apparently, my friend didn't do so well these few semesters due to the difficulty of the Engineering Higher Diploma program - a killer program, to be exact - he's doing in a local CC (we're from Hong Kong).</p>
<p>His GPA isn't really high. If it's dragged down by last semester, it'll probably end up 2. something.</p>
<p>He hasn't received his SAT scores yet, but he's really confident in his Math scores.</p>
<p>So any good Civil Engineering schools for the low GPA?</p>
<p>2.x is a pretty low gpa for high school, particularly if you’re trying to get into engineering. I would apply to some smaller universities and try to transfer out once you do well in the base curriculum (math science, etc.) Then you’ll be able to transfer into a ‘good civil engineering school’.</p>
<p>I don’t think there are any good universities in the US which don’t care that much about GPAs, those are the primary admissions metric.</p>
<p>But, I think Purdue, Illinois, and Georgia Tech, for undergraduate, have relatively relaxed admissions requirements and are top schools for engineering. Still, a GPA in that range is really pushing your luck.</p>
<p>Since the top engineering schools use GPA as part of admissions criteria (because they can, at least), your friend would probably be better off applying to community colleges. Once in, your friend should try to do as well as possible, and transfer to as good an engineering school as possible, and try to do as well as possible there.</p>
<p>In my experience, high school GPAs rarely, if ever, factor into hiring or grad school admissions. I think a low HS GPA can much more easily be “forgiven” than a low college/university GPA.</p>
<p>For fall 2011, junior transfers to civil engineering at San Jose State were admitted with a 2.60 GPA in their previous college (usually community college):</p>