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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.
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.
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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.