Low GPA's and Grad School

JRabas24
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:26:05 +0000

You are going to need some good GREs and it would probably help if you had some conference papers or a published work to make you stand out from the pack and overcome the UG GPA. 3.73 in an MA is good but grad schools are going to be expecting high GPAs in your MA program (its a subject you are interested in and are good at). The language skills are good but they are going to expect that if you are applying to a program focusing on the Middle East. Great LORs and a SOP explaining the GPA will help too. It would help in the SOP if you showed dramatic improvement in your last 2 years of UG, that would show that the first two years may have been a fluke or that you had to mature a little.