<p>I read something about guaranteed admissions to elite graduate schools after graduating from Smith College with a minimum of a 3.5 gpa... I was wondering if this was exclusively for Engineering or for other majors as well and if someone could explain more about this. Thank-you in advance.</p>
<p>It's just for engineering, though I don't know what the GPA cut off is exactly (smithiegr will probably be along in a bit to tell you). The idea is that there aren't enough women engineers, so the Smith program is in partnership with several top-tier engineering graduate schools to offer garaunteed admission to qualifying students. It helps attract more women to the program, for one thing.</p>
<p>"Through admissions agreements with Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Tufts University, and the University of Michigan, students who maintain an overall GPA of 3.5 and a GPA of 3.5 within the major are automatically admitted to graduate study in an engineering discipline at these schools."</p>
<p>Supposedly Notre Dame and Princeton were added to list (after the webpage was created). </p>
<p>Mind you, most female engineers with a 3.5 GPA would be accepted anyway, but it takes the pressure off.</p>