I just graduated from UCLA with a 3.5 GPA. I was on the verge of a 3.6 and didn’t quite make the cut. I’m worried that no top tier grad school will accept me. I’m not expecting for Ivy leagues to accept me, but I also don’t want to go to some no-name crappy school in the middle of nowhere. Please tell me, what is the perception of a 3.5 from a school like UCLA? Will my GRE matter even more now?
Thank you.
This post raises my troll radar, but I will take the chance that you are serious. Why do you want to go to graduate school? What do you want to study in graduate school? Masters or PhD? What is an example of a "no-name crappy school in the middle of nowhere? Do you always sound so condescending? Do you know that in some fields the top graduate schools are not Ivies? Some are even in the middle of nowhere, at least by your apparent standards.
By no means a 3.5 from UCLA is considered to be a bad GPA for many gratuate schools.
What is your intended field? That will determine which programs are strong and which are not. Not all of the departments at a particular institution are the best in the country…
Any “no-name crappy school in the middle of nowhere” will reject you, because they won’t like being called a “no-name crappy school in the middle of nowhere”. On the other hand, depending upon what you want to study, there are probably plenty of very good universities that will accept you.
film or gender studies
thank you for answering the question