After coming to Berkeley, I realized that I am an average/less than average student..

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<p>I too find the above claim (in the first quote) to be dubious. However, I could be swayed by evidence. Does anybody have anything that would speak to the notion that MCB majors ‘regularly’ are admitted to top 10 PhD programs with just 2.8 GPA’s?</p>

<p>As one case in point, MIT states that the average undergraduate GPA for admitted students to the biology PhD program is a 3.6. I doubt that many applicants with 2.8’s are being admitted. </p>

<p><a href=“http://mit.edu/biology/www/graduate/appfaq.html[/url]”>http://mit.edu/biology/www/graduate/appfaq.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>UCSF explicitly states that you can’t even apply to any of the programs in its Graduate Division, which comprises all of its MS and PhD programs, without at least a 3.0 undergrad GPA. </p>

<p><a href=“http://graduate.ucsf.edu/content/admission-requirements-and-application-process[/url]”>http://graduate.ucsf.edu/content/admission-requirements-and-application-process&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;