GPA question for Berkerly and UCLA

petalfly

I heard that these two schools are not flexible with undergraduate GPA. My undergraduate GPA are very low, around 2.5. I got my Master in US. My graduate GPA is 3.6. My major is engineering, a lot of guys in these major have low GPAs in China. I am wondering If I should apply for these two schools. I don't want to waste my money.Does anybody give me an advice? Thanks

funnytiger

for Berkeley, I think the average is above 3.0. good news is that you are applying for B-school not a law school. so you can always explain why your GPA is so low. Good essay should help a great deal.

recently, there is a news article talking about the low GPA in UCLA engineering department. I guess low GPA in engineering department is also true in USA

petalfly

some people said both these two school are not flexible with GPA, is there anybady know the situation.

sgblizzard

no worry... confirmed from the admission staff that if you have a much better GPA in your graduate school, they will just disgard your undergraduate GPA, because the graduate one is more recently, and thus a better reflection of your current academic ability.

sgblizzard

*recent..

福宝宝

Although Anderson's 1st year students' average GPA is 3.5, you won't have a big problem if you have been working for several years and your GMAT is high,and additionally your graduate GPA already looks pretty good!

coolcup168

as far as i know, the engineer deparment in Berkerly adopts a grading system called  BELL  curve.  u  guys  should  know how a bell looks like. that means no matter how hard you try. the professor only takes 5% of the class students as A, 20% as B, 60%-70% as C, and the rest is D. that is why Berkerly's engineering department is so famours in U.S.. if you are a student there(engineering), you can easily get a 70k/year job offer at ur senior years even ur gpa is under 3.0(>2.2).

zealousw

以下是引用petalfly在2003-11-6 4:07:00的发言：
I heard that these two schools are not flexible with undergraduate GPA. My undergraduate GPA are very low, around 2.5. I got my Master in US. My graduate GPA is 3.6. My major is engineering, a lot of guys in these major have low GPAs in China. I am wondering If I should apply for these two schools. I don't want to waste my money.Does anybody give me an advice? Thanks

Hi petalfly,

I got the interview inviation from Haas. I gradated at a Chinese University with low GPA: 2.9. So, I think if you GMAT isn't as low as you GPA, or you can show your academic strenghth in other ways. They may interested with your applicatoin.

Good luck

小小鱼儿04

worry about my GPA. I don't have the school report card on hand.