<p>I have a low gpa and wnat to get into a good graduauate school, would I have to score high on the GRE test to have any success in being admitted.</p>
<p>how low are we talking? 3.2 low? 3.0 low? 2.5 low? if you’re talking below 3.0…you have some serious work ahead of you. why would a grad program want to accept someone who can’t get a B average in undergrad?</p>
<p>also, what sort of grad program are you looking at? this makes a difference as well. you need to put in some details here to get feedback.</p>
<p>what about 3.3/4 low?
at nations top engineering college
by the way i am international student</p>
<p>You can get into a good engineering program with a 3.3, because engineering is widely known to be one of the hardest majors to keep a good GPA in. A 3.3 in undergrad would be the kiss of death in other fields, some humanities for instance.</p>
<p>Also, many schools only care about your major GPA, or your upper-division GPA. If you screwed up freshman year, or blew off some gen-ed requirements and got C’s, but aced your major courses, it looks a lot better than if you just got B’s everywhere.</p>
<p>waht is upper division GPA?
do you mean 3rd and 4th year only</p>
<p>Either that, or GPA considering only upper-division courses. It varies by school.</p>
<p>Hmm, this seems to be a common misconception: GRE WILL NOT help you offset a low GPA. GRE matters very little in the graduate admissions process and some top graduate schools (like MIT) don’t ask for it at all.</p>
<p>You need good research experience and good letters of recommendations (which almost always comes from professors you’ve done research with). It is FAR better to have below 3.0 but rather have spent all of your time doing research, generating fantastic results, and publishing papers than to have a 4.0 without doing any research.</p>