关于申请金融PhD，本科gpa低，请教有经验者

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.