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Originally Posted by Bayern
Different universities have different grading standards. How do adcoms use the GPA as a sorting factor to admit students? Maybe they might have a lower limit of a GPA maybe of a 3.6 or 3.7 (or whatever it is), after that how do they decide that a 3.9 from one school is better than 3.7 in another school? Many people might bring in the reputation factor of the university itself, but if we ignore the students coming from top 15 research universities, there will be a lot of universities of good reputation... the national universities and the LACs... how do they possibly compare students using GPA?? To bring matters more to perspective, I come from a top 40 LAC. The grad school will definitely know my school, but they also know lots of other schools which are of good reputation. How will they sort using GPAs? How will they decide the math classes I am taking are more/less difficult than other schools, because the standard of grading cannot be similar across so many schools, and there has to be grade inflation/deflation in many places.
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thats why they are looking for good GRE score and recommendations as well.
I dont think adcoms select students only got good GPA.