<p>Do graduate schools consider +'s and -'s ?</p>
<p>Do they count A-'s and A's the same?</p>
<p>Depends on the school…you would have to call up each school and ask them how they would calculate your GPA.</p>
<p>Ookla, what’s your major?</p>
<p>I would calculate your GPA the same way your college does unless there are specific instructions not to in the application. I have never known a university (not a community college) to ignore +/-s. While some using slightly different scaling (e.g., 3.7 vs. 3.67 for an A-), that likely won’t make a particularly major difference.</p>
<p>Many applications will ask you to calculate your GPA according to the scale they provide.</p>
<p>I’m a microbiology major wikipedian</p>
<p>More important than the overall GPA are the exact grades in courses most pertinent to the graduate curriculum being applied to. Admission committees may do quick triage of applications based on large difference in overall and/or science related GPA (eliminate for review applications below a certain cut-off, which is usually posted on the grad application page). However, if above this cut-off, admission committees will be examining the rigor, focus and performance in all the relevant courses listed on your official transcript</p>
<p>ParAlum, I’m sure it depends on the school and area of study, but on SDN, the DCT (Director of Clinical Trng – the person who generally chairs Clinical Psych adcoms) mentioned that generally they really don’t look at the transcript much beyond confirming that you’ve completed prereqs, have a GPA above the cut, and so forth. According to him, once you’ve passed cutoffs for GPA and GRE, it becomes more about statement of purpose, LORs, and the interview. This may be due to the size of Clinical Psych applicant pools, however.</p>
<p>i imagine clinical admissions would definitely be different from graduate admissions</p>
<p>apumic</p>
<p>This is field specific of course, with Clinicial psych being very much as you state for some schools but not all.</p>
<p>For the “hard” sciences such as the microbiology of the post, performance in specific science coursework is very specifically examined when you are close to the cut-off (either for consideration of application or for admission cut-off).</p>
<p>however, in all graduate applications, statement of purpose and the quality and strengths of letter of recommendation are equally important.</p>
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<p>I’m sure there’s a number of universities out there that don’t give +/- grades, I know CMU didn’t give them out.</p>
<p>^MIT doesn’t either (well, +/- are awarded, but they’re not reported on the transcript that’s sent externally). I do not recall if MIT’s graduate application specificially requested that applicants calculate their GPAs according to MIT’s scale, though I think that would make sense.</p>