do i have any chance?

[owenss2]

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I graduated in 2008 and have been working as a manager for the past 4 years at a small business. I took many of the pre-req class for the DPT in my undergrad but had a poor overall gpa (2.5, a bit higher in the required courses).

I still need 4-5 classes, volunteer time, to take the GRE's and recommendations before I would meet the application requirements. If I were to go back and ace all the classes I need and get a high GRE score, what are the chances that I could overcome my poor undergrad gpa? Is there anything else I could do to help offset that GPA?

 

[qtran]

I believe unless you can get it to at least a 2.9gpa most schools will throw out your application due to the 3.0 min filter. If it doesn't meet that the school will denied it even before it reaches the review board. It seems like schools get so many apps that the gpa threshold is an easy way to reduce the number of apps. Just my view.

 

[GTT4DPT]

I just started looking at some numbers to see what acing all your pre-reqs might do for your GPA (assuming that you have somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 total hours of undergrad credit).

If you got As in 5 new classes that are each 4 hours credit, it looks like your total GPA would only get up to 2.7ish.

In order to get up to a 3.0 overall, it looks like you'd need to retake 20 credit hours worth of C coursework and get A's in all the classes the second time around.

So it could be a pretty significant battle to get your numbers up (and I think these schools enforce cutoffs pretty strictly...there is no consideration of an applicant who almost meets all the cutoffs, or who meets all of them but one. They just toss that application, deposit the application fee and move on to the next one.)

But the devil is in the details and each school seems to do things differently. Some focus on last 60 hours of coursework, but others may only look at last 60 hours that culminate in a degree...these things start to become far more nuanced than I ever thought possible and may make or break where you fall relative to their cutoffs.

The next step might unfortunately be the tedious task of going through each program's minimums and how they calculate their cutoff statistics, along with a realistic plan of where you could take your GPA from here. Excel will be your friend.

Bottom line: the minimums that these programs publish really seem to be their minimums, and I don't think there's much opportunity to offset missing one measure by excellence in another.