GPA and Low Grades

juillet
Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:18:32 +0000

Frankly, most un-funded PhD programs probably wouldn’t take you. First of all, most good programs offer funding to all of their accepted students. But even when programs offer admission without funding, it is usually to students who are borderline cases or maybe slightly below their threshold of admissibility (let’s say if they like to see a 3.3+, if you have a 3.1ish they might admit you conditionally without funding). A 2.41 is far too low for that.

I’ll also say that if you currently have a 2.41 it will be quite an effort to raise your GPA to a 3.2. If you can at least get it into the 2.7+ range, then you could potentially do an MS in your field, do really well there, and leverage that to get into a PhD program.