<p>I'm with you! ^</p>
<p>I think what koreangirl was getting too is that most people (at least on CC) thats has a 4.0 seems to have a easier courseload than those with a 3.8-3.9...... Now if you have a 4.0 with a heavy courseload more props to you because your right russkiy, adcoms would take THAT person first.</p>
<p>You do NOT need a 4.0. </p>
<p>I don't know how many ways we can try to get this point across. I think there may be some schools for which 3.5 is an actual cutoff. Even they might consider a 3.47, depending on all other factors. The only way to obtain a definitive answer on that is to call and ask whether you should apply with a 3.47.</p>
<p>To the OP wondering if a 3.61 might cut it for Stanford and similar - yes, it might. It depends on everything else about your application. Good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks Andale.... you just gave me hope that maybe I could recieve that big envelope in the mail.... hears to keeping my fingers crossed</p>
<p>Sexykoreangirl-</p>
<p>No offense but that's just silly. Your courses themselves show whether or not you have a heavy classload. A 4.0 is just a grade. A perfect grade to be exact. That will never work -against- you. A 4.0 will always, always be a plus. Period.</p>
<p>Now whether you got that gpa with 3 classes based on music and feelings or with a full courseload of engineering classes will of course come into play. But having a 4.0 doesn't mean you have a weak course load. C'mon.</p>
<p>Final lesson: The higher the GPA the better.</p>
<p>Whatever your GPA is, you'll still be competing against CCC students(for Berkeley) who have the distinct advantage when it comes to transferring. Basically, the student applying to UCB from Compton Community College with a 3.6 has a better chance of transferring into the same department as the UCLA student with a 3.6.</p>
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<p>I called Berkeley admissions and unfortunately its true... It's funny how Stanford actually does take into account the school you're transferring from, so in a sense, it somewhat makes me feel that I have a higher chance at Stanford than Berkeley... Oh well. But then on the other hand, it's Stanford, so I pretty much have no chance for both schools. :/</p>
<p>^It's like that for UT too. A 3.6 from a CC might get in over a 3.5 from Rice. Their policy is that a GPA is a GPA regardless of where it came from. They don't care where you got you good grades, just as long as they were good.</p>
<p>I'm gonna go ahead and say there is no definitive GPA that will get you. I had a 3.9 and didn't get in where I wanted (Columbia)</p>
<p>Even a 4.0 isn't good enough for Stanford... you need to have something extraordinary in order to be a part of the 17 or 20 that get in amongst the 1200+ applicants</p>
<p>And how many of them had 4.0 GPA's?</p>
<p>People need to STEP AWAY from the obsession with 4.0 GPAs. The emphasis on that is misguided and ill-informed.</p>
<p>where you sit from 3.6-4.0 is just one a few equal slices of the pie imo</p>
<p>statistics say 3.7+ for most of those schools to be competitive..but it really depends on course load. comp 101, music of our times, humanities, reading and writing vs. organic chemistry, genetics, physics, anatomy</p>
<p>ect. your major is looked at as well as extra curriculars. that gpa is a lot harder earned if you kept yourself busy. They don't just look at your gpa straight up, they try and get more of a holistic view of the applicant (so I've been told)</p>
<p>look at the 3.7 as more of a qualifying component to put you into the mixing bowl, and everything else what actually gets you admission is how I would tend to approach it.</p>