<p>If you have a low gpa like 3.0, can you still attend graduate school?</p>
<p>sure, thats what 2nd, third, and fourth tier schools are for. Or u have excellent other credentials</p>
<p>You can definitely attend a good graduate school with a GPA of 3.0. You will have to put extra effort into your application package with the purpose of demonstrating to the admissions committees that you are committed to your field of study and that you possess the qualities necessary to succeed in graduate school. Although you probably will not gain admissions to a Ph.D. program you will have a good chance of being admitted to a Master's program.</p>
<p>The first step to being admitted is to take your GRE test and score well. Also depending which field you are interested in, taking the subject GREs can also help. The second thing to do is to write a killer essay. In your essay make sure explain why you are interested in the field you are applying to and demonstrate that you will be a good researcher. Remember not to discuss your GPA in your essay. If there are special circumstances relating to your GPA then include additional comments in your application.
Thirdly, start contacting professors that could give you good letters of recommendation. Remember to send them an email with important biographical information in it (such as previous degrees, awards, extra-curricular activities, research interests etc...).</p>
<p>Most admissions committees will study your undergraduate transcripts when they review your application. Often they will ignore the grades you received in your first 1 or 2 undergrad years. Furthermore, if you have many advanced and honors courses this will be perceived favorably.</p>
<p>I am writing this advice as a recently accepted Masters student at NYU. I applied to NYU sure that I would be rejected. I had a UGPA of 3.1. However, my 1430 GRE score, strong ECs and demonstrated interest in the field have earned me admissions and a Graduate Assistantship. </p>
<p>Do not despair!</p>
<p>How in the world did you get an assistantship? First thing, masters students normally don't get one. And if you were to get one, you would have super great credentials. What is your field of study?</p>
<p>The point of my post is that numbers do not necessarily dictate the quality of an application. Many other factors are taken into consideration. In my case, my GPA was seriously lowered by my first year in college where I basically flunked out. Because my grades continued to improve throughout undergrad and I had a final year GPA of 3.7, the admissions committee forgave my mistakes.</p>
<p>If you are passionate about learning and are sure that you would do well in graduate school make sure that this comes through in your application, it will make a world of difference.</p>
<p>As for the assistanship, many master's programs do not have assistanships but the program I applied to did. Several of the Master's at NYU have assistanships.</p>
<p>is it true that graduate schools fully fund a graduate student's education(in other words being accepted to a graduate school basically means you dont have to pay anything)?</p>
<p>I wish grad schools fully fund my education! In that case I wouldn't be paying $$$ at Columbia. Funding normally are reserved for PH.D candidates. If your in a masters program and get one then your one of the lucky few. Some schools have more money than others so that will affect what's available.</p>
<p>I guess in my situation, my GPA has basically been the same my whole four years only because I try to balance extremely hard major-mandatory classes with easy classes, bringing my GPA down a bit. :(</p>
<p>it depends on the field you want to get into. for example, to get into any clinical psych phd program you need a 3.5 for the bare minimum</p>
<p>VT, i heard if you're doing 'research' as a grad, there are tonnes grants you can get.How much more expensive than undergrad is grad school for say, a top tier school.</p>
<p>I have to take quantitative classes for my major (which is not history). I want to do a History PhD. My calculus, econ, and stats bring my GPA down. I have received As in my history-related courses.</p>
<p>I don't really know the answer to that question caa5042. I plan on going to Columbia this fall for grad school and a fulltime grad student pays the same tuition as a fulltime undergrad if im not mistaken.</p>
<p>Just wanted to mention that there are quite a few schools that do offer graduate assistantships to master's students (even if their gpa's aren't stellar). You might just have to do a bit of searching to find them. Because finances are definitely an issue for me, I only applied to master's programs that offer graduate assistantships to a good number of the students they admit.</p>
<p>yeah i probably wont even bother going to grad school if i dont get substantial funding.Might as well get a job out of undergrad and start paying off my undergrad debt----></p>
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<p>It is now standard practice for students enrolled in PhD programs in the United States to be fully funded--i.e., to pay nothing to attend, but to teach or serve as research assistants for most (if not all) of their time in graduate school. There are few programs that can afford to attract top applicants if they do not fund them; those that do not fund all of their PhD students tend to have some other factor weighing in their favor. CUNY, for instance, does not have a large enough budget to fund all of its PhD students (it funds only some of them), but its location in New York City and the quality of its faculty are enough to attract good students regardless of the funding. In general, however, all top PhD programs will provide funding for their students.</p>
<p>Things are very different at the MA/MS level. Some schools offer funding packages to some of their MA students--many state schools do this, for instance, and require MA students to teach or serve as research assistants. Other schools, however, do not. Columbia University, for instance, funds all of its PhD students in the school of arts and sciences, but most of its MA/MS students have to pay regular tuition.</p>
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Most admissions committees will study your undergraduate transcripts when they review your application. Often they will ignore the grades you received in your first 1 or 2 undergrad years. Furthermore, if you have many advanced and honors courses this will be perceived favorably.
That is very interesting to me. Would you happen to know if Stanford Business School also disregards your first year (particularly the first semester)? I had a horrible experience my first semester at college. I got a 2.66 and took 19 units (the units weren't the problem - two professors were), which really messed me up in the future bringing my final Bachelor GPA down to 3.4 </p>
<p>On a similar note, do graduate schools consider your High School grades?</p>
<p>Graduate schools do not consider your high school grades, and I've never heard of a graduate or professional program requesting (or accepting) any information about your high school experience other than the name and location of the school. That might be different if you did something really extraordinary in high school, like started a successful company or acted on Broadway, but generally they couldn't care less about it.</p>
<p>While I can't answer your question about Stanford's business school specifically, I can say that the reason why graduate schools are not as interested in your grades in your first two years is because most students spend their first two years of college taking required classes and searching for a major. Graduate and professional schools are interested in your performance in the specific field you're applying to, so they tend to look at your junior/senior results more closely, since that's when most students take their major field classes. So your bad first semester will only make a big difference to them if you were taking a lot of major classes then, which I suspect you were not. That's not to say that they will just totally write off a bad first semester, but it is to say that a bad first semester is not nearly as harmful as a bad semester your junior year when you're taking all major classes.</p>
<p>Sweet, thanks. I got the bad grades my first semester only in non-major classes (e.g. Biology).</p>
<p>I'm trying to get into Grad School in the US, I studied in Mexico but my undergrad GPA was low around 3 (79/100), nontheless I decided to go for an MS first, here also, and I finished with a better GPA around 3.7 (92/100), 2 publications and more research xp.
Is my older GPA form my undergrad still going to hunt me down or are admitions commities more interested in the rest.</p>