<p>Does anybody know whether grad schools generally consider all GPA's to be equal, or do they understand that certain majors are resisting the grade inflation that's taken over most schools? I'm coming out of a 5-year professional architecture program, and am curious how my 3.35 GPA will be viewed.</p>
<p>Graduate schools do look into the school that you attended. A 3.4 or 3.5 from a top-10 undergraduate school is viewed as equivalent to a 3.8 or even 3.9 from Podunk University.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that in graduate admissions, you will still have to compete with those who managed to earn 3.8s and 3.9s at a top-10 school, so keep that in mind. But GPA isn't everything; research experience and letters of recommendation is much more important; a 4.0 with no research experience will not get into a top graduate program.</p>
<p>yeah, arts majors don't really do research the way you guys do.... </p>
<p>And I didn't say it was a top 10 school. It wasn't. It was about the most rigorous major you can find, and happened to be located within a top 30 school. I'm applying for a much less difficult major for grad school, so I'm worried about competing with arts majors with 3.8-4.0s, whereas that just didn't happen in architecture school. From my department, we had two 'cum laude's, no summa or magna cum laudes at graduation. The GPAs just didn't go up that high, the profs didn't let it happen.</p>