<p>It's not uncommon for someone's graduate gpa to be higher than his/her undergraduate gpa. I've heard of the occasional true stories of people who had a 3.2 undergrad and then a 3.7 in grad school, or even more surprising, someone with a 2.95 undergrad who still managed to get into grad school and there got a 3.95 gpa.</p>
<p>But have any of you had the opposite experience, with your grad gpa being lower than your undegrad gpa? </p>
<p>In grad school, one is expected to get at least a B in every class. But do any of you go to a school where professors have no qualms about giving out something lower?</p>
<p>This happened to me. I didn't have wonderful grades in college, but I had a 3.7 in my major and enough standout research/work/international experience to get me into a top RSEA master's program. </p>
<p>My final M.A. GPA was significantly lower than my undergrad GPA. This was attributable in part to poor grades in advanced graduate foreign language courses, and I did have a pretty stark upward trend overall, but the big picture still wasn't pretty.</p>
<p>I still ended up getting into a PhD program in a subject that doesn't require additional foreign language training :-P.</p>
<p>My current MS gpa is lower than my BS. Im an engineering major. I keep hearing the same thing as well, that graduate school gpa is normally higher than undergrad. I don't understand that. My graduate classes are harder, the students are stronger, and my classes are still curved the same as my undergrad(about a B). </p>
<p>But apparently my school is anomaly in many ways.</p>
<p>I don't quite get it either. I found almost everything about graduate school to be more challenging, time-consuming, and rigorous than undergrad. </p>
<p>It's hard, though, when you're in a one-year master's program and are expected to take ~20 hours of graduate courses per term, and you've only got two semesters to make that adjustment.</p>
<p>I am currently having a higher gpa in grad school than undergrad. But it's only been a year so far in grad school. Because grad students take less classes, it's easier to manage. The coursework is definitely harder, but you have more time to concentrate on 1,2 classes. Plus, when the borderline is a B instead of a C, you will always shoot for an A. When I was an undergrad, I had 2 exams on the same day, I studied for only 1 because I already did well on the other so I didn't care. Ended up having bad grades on both.</p>
<p>I'm strange, but I can't help it -- grad school has so far been considerably less difficult than undergrad for me. Things like designing my own research are hard, of course, but the coursework is neither more in-depth nor more challenging than what I had in undergrad.</p>
<p>I don't know what my grad GPA is, though -- I never checked at the end of last semester. :)</p>
<p>It's different when you're in a one-year MA program where you have to take 5-6 courses per semester (including thesis) just to graduate on time. That was the case with me, and I got slammed.</p>