Top Grad Program with Sucky GPA?

BrownParent
Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:08:20 +0000

I don’t know how low is too low in those fields. That is certainly the conventional wisdom, that yours is too low. Is there any point to the double major? I suppose the assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon is many times sorry that he published his paper on Computer Science grad school advice, but he did say that a 3.3 at a great school was looked at as if it was a 3.7 or 3.8 from an okay school.

I think my own dd is depending on this, and she has never cared about her grades much. It is also very hard to get a high gpa in her major at her school, unless you don’t do anything else.

I think the best thing for you to do is to cultivate relationships with your professors and see what they think. They will have relations with other profs from grad schools and know who might want to work with you. I think a degree in Forestry at Yale is too obscure at this board yet.