<p>A GPA should not make or break an applicant in my opinion. True, getting 4.0 UW is much more impressive than a person with 3.5 UW but think realistically. How many schools across the nation inflate their grades? How many don’t? How can you compare the difficulty of the class? AP and IB and Honour classes give some indication, but how can you check their curriculum or how the teacher marks? One physics teacher might scale the classes marks. Another might not. You can’t always judge a person’s intelligence by looking at numbers. There are definitely other huge factors determining the GPA. </p>
<p>That being said, I’m all for people with <3.6 GPA applying. There are guaranteed thousands of students who are hard working, and very intelligent and devoted, who work in a much more difficult class and whose teacher’s philosophy of grades differ greatly.</p>