<p>Thats not true. You don't need a 3.5 for top schools. For schools like Delaware, they don't care where you come from, they wanted a 3.6 or 3.7. He had a 3.0 and got rejected even though it was from Berkely. If you go to Berkely, you would know that it is extremely competitive and tough to pull a high gpa. Really good schools know that. They can look at the school the person went to and know how tough it was for that person to pull that gpa.</p>
<p>A 3.0 is well below average, even at Berkeley. The average GPA at Berkeley is a 3.25. Grades are proportioned:
50% A's
35% B's
10% C's
5% D's and F's</p>
<p><a href="http://ls.berkeley.edu/new/05/grades.html%5B/url%5D">http://ls.berkeley.edu/new/05/grades.html</a></p>
<p>Unless you're in engineering, in which case the GPA drops significantly.</p>
<p>yeah, but this was years ago, and the average is different for what you are doing at Berkely. He was doing engineering at the time. Don't know what type of engineering though.</p>