Serious question about graduate school

Peytoncline
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:43:27 +0000

^Now the real ■■■■■…

Sorry wonderboi, it’s just people like iCalculus who make me skeptical. I mean, like I hinted at earlier, I think the best thing to do is to talk with your advisor and see how he/she assesses the situation. IMHO, with a 3.0, you probably won’t be able to get into schools like Harvard or Stanford, unless you figured out some groundbreaking economic theory. But, I want to say that you can still get into pretty good grad programs because a 3.0 from Princeton is by no means a bad GPA and compared to applicants from other schools with the same GPA, I think you would have an advantage by just having gone to Princeton.

This is something I’m going to have to keep in mind myself because I ended up not doing as well as I wanted to this past year as a freshman. Granted, most of the classes I took I’ve ruled out as potential majors, so my future departmental GPA could be just fine. But, who knows how grad schools will consider my freshman year grades.