If you are planning to apply to graduate school (master's/PhD programs), your MIT GPA is very close to being irrelevant, as long as it's close to a 4.0/5.0. What matters much more are your letters of recommendation and your research experience, both of which will probably be outstanding if you take advantage of the opportunities presented to you at MIT.
I got into all of the top PhD programs in biology with a 4.4/5.0 (which, I believe, is significantly below average for a biology major at MIT), and my class of PhD students has 10 MIT alums out of 70 total students. (More had gotten in and chosen to go elsewhere.)
Generally speaking, going somewhere like MIT will open more graduate school doors than going somewhere with fewer opportunities. (If you go to State U, for example, don't expect to get into the top grad programs in the country with anything less than about a 3.8/4.0.) I am pretty confident that I would not be in my current PhD program if I had gone to my state university. The opportunities and the challenges at MIT were absolutely fundamental to my success.
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Originally Posted by arwen15 ...is there any indication that course
20 UGs will not be allowed in to the Graduate program at MIT (for
example like the Science Courses like 7/5?) |
For the record, course 7 does accept its own undergraduates into the PhD program -- they started doing this in 2006.
Also, re: course 20 graduate admissions, the admissions blogger Bryan (who was obviously an MIT undergrad) is now a graduate student in the department.