<p>Well, my take as a parent of an alum is, if you are obsessed with GPA don’t go to Swat. My son got into grad school this year with good financial aid. He wasn’t GPA obsessed when he was at Swat but what he did there helped him a lot with graduate school. His writing samples were very good etc. His cumulative GPA was respectable but not meteoric; I don’t think it was too much of a factor in admissions in his field. I am not going into numbers because it isn’t relevant. His professors helped out too with letters of recommendation, crucial advice, etc. I suppose there are fields like Law and medicine where GPA matters.</p>