{"id":5610,"date":"2018-12-18T19:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2018-12-19T13:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:55:29","slug":"will-i-get-into-a-good-graduate-school-if-i-have-a-sub-3-5-gpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/18\/will-i-get-into-a-good-graduate-school-if-i-have-a-sub-3-5-gpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Will I get into a good graduate school if I have a sub 3.5 GPA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5609\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5609\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/121818-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5609\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/121818-3-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"Will I get into a good graduate school if I have a sub 3.5 GPA?\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/121818-3-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/121818-3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will I get into a good graduate school if I have a sub 3.5 GPA?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Undergraduate GPA is not the only consideration for graduate school admissions. Generally speaking, if you have a lower than average GPA (for the school you&#8217;re interested in), you will have to distinguish yourself through &#8220;soft factors&#8221; such as life\/professional experience. You may consider working for a few years to distance yourself from your undergraduate GPA and build up professional experience to bring to your desired program. I believe in you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undergraduate GPA is not the only consideration for graduate school admissions. Generally speaking, if you have a lower than average GPA (for the school you&#8217;re interested in), you will have to distinguish yourself through &#8220;soft factors&#8221; such as life\/professional experience. You may consider working for a few years to distance yourself from your undergraduate GPA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/12\/18\/will-i-get-into-a-good-graduate-school-if-i-have-a-sub-3-5-gpa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will I get into a good graduate school if I have a sub 3.5 GPA?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-life-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}