Timeline for Accepted by European university, rejected by all American ones I applied to? Possible reasons?
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| May 4, 2019 at 3:40 | comment | added | WetlabStudent | @CountessIsolde Please note that your letters & high in topic grades would definitely speak louder than that stuff if your application was actually seen. But I doubt anyone even looked at your application. A 2.8 GPA at a US institution is worse than the average undergrad student (median undergrad has a GPA between 3 - 3.3). It is not uncommon for the best PhD programs to get 500 applications competing over only a few spots! No one is going to read 500 applications, they have to cull some in an automated way just to make their job manageable. I'm sorry you fell victim to this system. | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 18:08 | comment | added | Countess Isolde | To be fair to myself, my in-topic GPA is over 3.5. I was the only person in my class to land an A+ in the courses closest to my specialty. I was dragged down by my very... interesting... decision to simultaneously minor in Physics and Mathematics. It seems I made the erroneous decision of thinking my letters and my extremely high in-topic grades would speak louder than the other stuff. | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 15:49 | comment | added | WetlabStudent | @bremen_matt usually 3.0 (or even as low as 2.7) is the type of official requirement that might be written on a University website. But you are right, in practice, the admission committee might operate using a much higher threshold, 3.3 or even as high as 3.5 would not be uncommon for the most elite programs. | |
| Apr 13, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | lalala | Also I presume submitting a GRE (with very high scores) is almost mandatory when you want to claim 'its not me, its my school grading harshly". | |
| Apr 12, 2019 at 12:38 | comment | added | kuhl | The grade cutoff was my first thought as well. Even the company I work for has a 3.0 grade cutoff for new graduate hires, and I'd expect that to have much less restrictive requirements than an internationally well-known PhD program. | |
| Apr 12, 2019 at 6:40 | comment | added | bremen_matt | Grade inflation is real and damaging! | |
| Apr 12, 2019 at 6:39 | comment | added | bremen_matt | From my experience, a 3.0 might be even a low cutoff. I have seen higher (e.g. 3.3) | |
| Apr 12, 2019 at 2:32 | history | edited | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2019 at 1:32 | history | answered | WetlabStudent | CC BY-SA 4.0 |