Saturday, 19 January 2019

Importance of GPA and GRE scores for grad school admissions


I was reading the following article by Mathew Might. HOWTO: Get into grad school for science, engineering, math and computer science


I saw the following the paragraph



What doesn't matter



GPA? I don't care if it's 2.0 or 4.0. I won't even look at it. The school you went to? I'll judge you the same whether you went to Nowhere State U or a top-ten school. Transcripts? Never seen one. GREs? Irrelevant. Where you work/worked? Unless it's a research lab, it's not important. I don't think these items have much predictive capacity as to whether or not someone can complete a Ph.D.



Is Mathew Might telling the truth? For me it's very hard believe that GPA, GRE scores and undergraduate school don't matter. I used to think that they play an extremely important role in grad school admission.




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