Ph.D. Admission Requirements

harvestmoon
Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:43:43 +0000

PhD (and MA) admissions are also less general than for undergrad. Sure you could have been a club president and done a bunch of volunteering, but if it doesn’t make you a better student in your desired field, they may not care as much. It’s all about showing that you’re hot stuff (or have the potential to be hot stuff, rather) in your specific field (so biology or chemistry or history or whatever).

While they still want academically strong students, they sometimes are more forgiving of lower GPAs if you show promise in a different way (so, great research experience, conference presentations, an academic publication, etc).

It is extremely competitive with only so many spots available each year, and it’s simply an entirely different admissions game.