<p>Will a applicant from a tier 1 university be considered stronger than a guy from a cc?</p>
<p>Same question I have been asking.</p>
<p>I believe they care more about what you did. Do you think a top school care about your tier 1 university???</p>
<p>To weirdon,</p>
<p>I meant, for example, it’s harder to get an A in a top school. Then simply comparing the GPA is not fair.
If I got 3.8 GPA while a CC guy got 4.0. Who is better? you can’t just tell from the numbers.</p>
<p>This question has been asked quite a bit. Yes, to a degree gpa is considered in relation to the school you’re attending, much the same as your grades are considered in relation to the difficulty of your courses. That said, all of this taken into account within the context of your entire application. The college you attend is not a single factor that gets you accepted OR denied as a transfer.</p>
<p>What’s the deal with the Tier 1? is it better than Tier 3?</p>
<p>Tier 1 schools are those to which Newsweek assigns a numeric ranking.</p>
<p>In any case, the top schools have a reputation for grade inflation, so I’m not sure it makes as much difference as one would think.</p>
<p>US N&WR rankings number Tier 1 & 2 schools. </p>
<p>That grade inflation stuff is a pretty out dated concept. D1 has attended a top Public and an Ivy, in the Public she was in the top couple of % of her cohort (full ride scholarship) and more middle of the pack at the Ivy, guess which one she finds harder to make top grades at?</p>
<p>I attend a school that isn’t top tier (probably not even on the tier list), but is known for being a hard school in the area. Schools I apply to probably won’t know. Just do the best you can and make your application show that, GPA isn’t everything.</p>