关于申请金融PhD，本科gpa低，请教有经验者 - ChaseDream

chasedream高手如云，本人意欲申请2007年金融PhD，向前辈高手请教几个问题，希望有经验者指教。本科在国内著名大学毕业，management science（学位：工学士），全部平均分80.5，主要课程平均分85；北大算法gpa3.0,major gpa3.4，标准4.0算法gpa2.6,major gpa3.0。因undergraduate gpa太低，正想办法弥补。

The most important thing I concerned about is whether I will be rejected only because of my undergraduate gpa at first.

Thanks a lot. Need more constructive advice or directions, especisally from friends with the same kind of situations.

我指的是申请top牛校的金融phd，竞争异常激烈，任何硬伤都不能有。

As far as I know, there are many students of top US business schools in CD. Thank friends above. Can someone give me more construtive advice?

First of all, you should be aware that evenyone's case is unique, and every school's admission policy is unique as well.You should figure out something for yourself. If I recall correctly, Duke once admitted one guy with GMAT 560 +-.

前30基本没有希望。50以后可以考虑一下，说实在的你的BK很一般。如果你现在是美国TOP10大学MATH或者物理专业，GPA在TOP5有PAPER。你还有希望，否则估计TOP30没什么可能性。有时间看看TOP10的FIN PHD的RESUME吧。然后你就知道你该申请什么样的学校，为什么不申请你现在的学校？估计希望比较大些！

I'd like to remind all the friends here that, to be honest, my question is only 'what should I do to offset my low undergraduate GPA'.

I really know that it is very very hard to get an offer from a top finance PhD program, but as mauricewang said, 'you needn't perfect'. I believe it. If there's hope, I will never give up.

和你的情况类似，有办法补救，就是要你本科的排名证明。但是这是硬伤，好学校比较难。

以下是引用stokowski在2006-6-5 1:52:00的发言：
Rumor said there are 600 applicants for UIUC's finance phd, and 300 of them have 4.0 GPA.
If you are a undergraduate, you must face tons of perfect or nearly perfect students in the fight for offer.

Be honest, if you don't journal paper or nobel level recommendation, your chance to get into programs around 50 or 60 is pretty slim. Even perfect GMAT or GRE couldn't save you because now everybody knows Asian applicants' grade is overvalued.

So, one way is to study in prestigous master program in U.S. (no matter which major) and get a perfect grade.
A outstanding performance there could probably make committee ignore your seemingly lousy under GPA, and also it could earn recommandations from U.S. faculties.

However, I must warn you first that more than half applicants are doing the exactly same thing.

So you should set a further goal of pursuing nice research when you're in the master program.

A good paper could demostrate a lot of your ability and cover most of your weakness.