Swanson School of Engineering

retiredfarmer
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:52:20 +0000

If the Swanson School of Engineering is on the Pittsburgh campus, the average GPA for the entire campus is listed on their website as 4.03. Assuming this is weighted, as there is no other way of exceeding 4.0, this does not reflect the engineering population as they represent only about 10% of the Pittsburgh population. This information is taken from the Common Data Set (CDS) report for the Pittsburgh campus for 2017. For more details see https://ir.pitt.edu/facts-publications/common-data-set/ and poke around.

“grandalf78” is on target regarding the GPA! I would not give up and rugby players don’t do that! I do suggest you consider some alternative avenues as the engineering data is likely higher than the rest of the campus. Campus wide 76% of the students had secondary school GPA’s above 3.75 and you have a 3.81.

As these reports are from a standardized CDS system, they are a relatively reliable source and are available for most competitive universities through their websites.

What other universities are you looking at?