Lavabug wrote:I don't know what to say, as I'm in a similar situation myself. Although my grades are considered decent back home, they don't look so great on a 1-10 scale (apparently it does translate to above a 3.0). My school was pretty hard as well, entering class of ~45, 4 years later, graduating class of < or = 5. Does your transcript state GPA or some other numeric scale? If you're doing the conversion yourself, don't, let grad committees look at your transcript as is as before making it easier for them to apply a hardline cutoff.
I am not very optimistic about admission committees looking much into a country's grading scheme if it isn't a system they're familiar with (guessing they've seen a lot of transcripts from some Asian countries and the UK but not much else), they'll probably rely a LOT more on the PGRE. Everything indicates we are expected to score higher than US students on average, so I don't think a 700 will cut it at most places, and getting there is not so easy IMO. You could get up to around a 700, assuming you got no more than 2-4 questions wrong approx.
Question: Have you already taken the TOEFL and general GRE? It looks like you need to work on your English, I would be more worried about reaching the TOEFL minimums at the schools you're applying to).
Izaac wrote:Don't your high school make any rankings out of the GPAs? I'm not an expert, but that seems a rather universal way of assessing a student's level at school... You have a GPA of 2.5 or 12.5/20 or 62.5% or whatever, doesn't matter! What matter is, you kept in the top 5% of your classes' students.
Izaac wrote:Sorry, just a slip of the tongue (or keyboard). I indeed meant college.
I agree with you, but still this looks to me a more objective way of assessing a student's level than GPA. You see how good the student is relative to her university, and then you weight by the university's reputation (or notable alumni or whatever).
bfollinprm wrote:Izaac wrote:Sorry, just a slip of the tongue (or keyboard). I indeed meant college.
I agree with you, but still this looks to me a more objective way of assessing a student's level than GPA. You see how good the student is relative to her university, and then you weight by the university's reputation (or notable alumni or whatever).
Such a strategy works well when you have an impression of a university's reputation. You often don't. And judging by the outliers (notable alumni) is a bad idea, for the same reason that I shouldn't assume that Romanians are excellent gymnasts just because I watched Nadia Comăneci in Montreal.
Sina wrote:I think mine is over. My PGRE score is "11/10/2012 PHYSICS 620 37% ", I'm really in trouble. I don't know what to do ?
I lose my energy to continue studying for TOEFL completely which is in 26 Jan. What do u think? Unfortunately this year our currency worth declined sharply, I have no enough money. Maybe I could pay just for one exam and I have time to last month of summer.
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