<p>I have a 3.07 cgpa in my bachelors of civil engineering, a GRE score of 151v 161q, two internships and not job yet, I happened to have won a gold medal in my bachelors research thesis. Do I stand a zero chance or any chance at all considering the fact that my GPA isn't very high according to the U.S standards ( we get graded very poorly in my could try and any 3+ is actually considered a good GPA)</p>
<p>There’s no way to know for sure.</p>
<p>-Depends on what country you’re coming from.
-Depends on what university you attended in that country.
-Depends on the universities in the U.S. you want to apply to - some are far more competitive than others, so for some a 3.07 will be okay and for others it won’t be. (I just caught that the title says Texas A&M; I’m not sure what their average GPA is but you may be able to find it on the website.)
-Depends on what degree you’re pursuing - generally speaking, a 3.07 is pretty low for a PhD program but not too low for an MS or M.Eng.
-Depends on whether your major GPA or upper-division GPA is higher and kind of makes up for it.</p>
<p>The only thing you can do is apply and find out.</p>
<p>“generally speaking, a 3.07 is pretty low for a PhD program but not too low for an MS or M.Eng.”
why? Are you assuming the MS students will be self-funded?</p>
<p>I have self funding in mind, it didn’t occur to me as much of an issue (dad-funded totally). And I am applying for a masters in structural engineering. I have studied from the national university of sciences and technology in Pakistan, which is the most top ranked university in the country and is exceptionally hard to get into. The problem with them is they take only foreign qualified lecturers and professors (Not even their own graduates!) and I wish to be able to teach back at my own university upon completion of my master’s degree, and considering a&M’s reputation it would help me greatly in doing so, if I make it to their program that is.
I have searched their website Multiple times but not to much avail, that is the reason why I had to resort to forums online. 
And sorry for the errors, I meant to say “we get poorly graded in my **country”… Autocorrect really makes me sometimes appear to be an idiot.</p>
<p>Yes, I was assuming general admission to a program. You will want to have a higher GPA if you are trying to compete for funding.</p>
<p>If the website doesn’t have an minimum GPA posted, likely they do not have one. Many programs don’t post their average admissions numbers, so you sort of have to guess and/or go with estimated standards based upon other grad students’ experiences. In my field (psychology) it’s generally expected that MA applicants will have at least a 3.0 but more preferably around a 3.2-3.3, and PhD applicants will have at least a 3.5-3.6+. There are, of course, exceptions - I had a 3.4 when I was admitted to my PhD program, but that’s because my major GPA was higher as well as other factors. Remember that these are also by American standards AND will vary even within our country - for example, if your university is known as a place that deflates grades, the department may take that into account when reviewing your transcript. If your university is a great place for engineering, perhaps the department’s professors will be familiar and take that into account when reviewing your app.</p>
<p>But the basic fact is that nobody is going to be able to predict this for you - you’re just going to have to apply and see what happens.</p>
<p>I think I need to “guess” more than other people here, since for international students things are a bit different. for example they certainly aren’t aware of deflation/inflation of grades, if they exist.(I still am not sure what the US universities do with foreign grades which probably are in a scale different to the 0-4 US scale. Do they convert the grade of each course and calculate the total GPA for all applicants? That seems to be very time consuming, especially given the number of applicants) Also I guess LORs might be a bit less important and GRE might be a bit more important.
Anyway, yes, I’ve applied and have to wait a couple of weeks for the results.</p>
<p>Here’s the problem with my university, we get relative grading, eg the first five students (among 160ish) would score an A, 10 right after would get a B+ and then a small amount of students get Bs and a lot of us get C+. Now imagine the class strength of 160-something students is made up of handpicked students from 20,000 applicants. in Pakistan a 3.07 score is really not looked down upon on especially if you’re from my university. </p>
<p>And in theory our GPA is based on the american system of grading, in theory only though.</p>