What kind of sGPA is a good cutoff for top schools?

[ditritium monoxide]

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Just curious. This seems subject to much more fluctuation than cGPA. Would, say, a 3.85 sGPA be considered too low for top 20 schools for a non-minority or ORM?

 

[Lucca]

If you look at the MSAR, you'll see that the 25th percentile hovers around 3.7-3.8. Any sgpa above 3.7 won't hold you back. Obviously, the higher the better

 

[Goro]

Just curious. This seems subject to much more fluctuation than cGPA. Would, say, a 3.85 sGPA be considered too low for top 20 schools for a non-minority or ORM?

*sigh* Only on SDN would someone think that a 3.85 would be too low for the Top Schools.

Invest in MSAR Online and you'll see just how neurotic that line of thinking is.

 

[efle]

3.85 is fine for any school in the country, even the absurd Harvard/Hopkins level medians are only ~3.9 with IQR going down to 3.85