Gpa explanation for mba programs, do they really care?

lewtat
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:17:03 +0000

I dealt with a personal tragedy during my freshman year of college which affected my grades significantly. After my first year in school, i had a 3.49 but have since raised that gpa to a 3.75 over the course of three semesters. Will this be taken into consideration when my transcripts are being reviewed?

I feel like I could write about what I dealt with for some of the essays or briefly talk about it at an interview, but I wanted to know how they valued an increase in Gpa like that. It would look better if you could view my gpa on a semester by semester basis, which would then explain the rough start I had…Does anyone know how MBA programs look at gpa’s? And also will a higher gpa counterbalance a lower test score with appropriate letters of recommendation and leadership experience?

thanks for the help