Do the adcoms prefer /give more weightage to GPA from Grad school? In my case, I have completed my masters. While my undergrad gpa wasn’t that great, around 3.3, my masters GPA was better at 3.7
After 6-7 years of experience, does GPA matter anyway?

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GPA is more about academic ability. I failed a few subjects in my first year of college but had honors in my final year and honors again in my post grad degree. Used that story of improvement and a 710 gmat. Got into a top bschool.

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All other things equal, a high undergrad GPA is preferable to a high grad school GPA, from an adcom's perspective. Both are measures of academic ability, but undergrad is what they report for the rankings services, so a low GPA there raises questions of both class composition and personal performance. Grad programs, by contrast, are pretty heterogeneous; so is undergrad, but it's easier for adcoms to make apples-to-apples comparison of several hundred business/engineering/econ majors from broadly comparable schools than to weigh grades in an ivy league master's of education against a Michigan environmental science post-grad and a CS degree from Carnegie Mellon.

That all being said, if undergrad GPA isn't a strength, a strong track record in a graduate program can definitely allay concerns that the student may struggle in the classroom.

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They care more about undergrad because thats what they report on their class profiles. They’ll take the master gpa into consideration when assessing you but undergrad is more important.

I’m sure schools have their own way of calculating GPA for international students. I’m not too familiar with this topic so do have further details.

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