<p>hey guys just wanna ask you guys something</p>
<p>let's say this guy has 2.8 gpa in a mediocre college like njit</p>
<p>but he brings up the gpa quite high by end of college year to like 3.5 gpa</p>
<p>do you think top grad schools will accept him?? </p>
<p>do grad school really care about what college we go to?</p>
<p>If this guy has a 2.8 he will need to completely change his mindset to bring it up to a 3.5. I have seen a lot of my friends say “alright, Im going to turn it around”… and then they just fall into their old ways.</p>
<p>Also, grad schools typically look at GPA/GRE with little emphasis the institutions name.</p>
<p>whyd you make 2 of the same threads.</p>
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For MS maybe. For PhD, not without getting an outstanding recommendation from someone respected who puts his own credibility is on the line in making the recommendation. PhD programs want great researchers. It’s like getting a job, but professors often have their limited research budgets at stake which feels to them like they are spending their own money. </p>
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MS with just courses is a money making operation for the school. They care that you can pay, or are willing to TA for peanuts. You need to convince them that you can do well in courses. PhD are the departments core business. For PhD, to the extent that they want recommendations from respected faculty, yes it matters where you go because what makes a school “top” is how respected the faculty are. If you get a recommendation from a respected faculty member at your lower ranked school though, you could be ok. This person might be a former student of a professor at a top school who the professors at the top school still respect because he or she came out of their institution and they know them personally. In this case, professors are far more likely to be honest to their former institution than to give you an inflated recommendation, so it would carry significant weight.</p>