<p>The top graduate school destinations of last year’s graduating class (pg 6 of the [graduating</a> student survey](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation07.pdf]graduating”>http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation07.pdf)) were:
MIT (137 students)
Harvard (27 students)
Stanford (20 students)
UC Berkeley (13 students)
University of Michigan (9 students)</p>
<p>These are self-reported numbers and only about 2/3 of the class replied, so consider these low end estimates of the number of students who went on to these graduate schools.</p>
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This is a below-average GPA at MIT – the average GPA of seniors is about a 4.2. To some degree, if you’re an MIT graduate, your GPA is completely irrelevant to your graduate school applications, and the important factors are your research experience and recommendations.</p>
<p>Of the students who applied to biology PhD programs from MIT my year, almost all of us ended up at Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and UCSF. I don’t know anyone who applied to these schools and didn’t get into at least one (and most of us got into all of them).</p>