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starmaker Thank you for the info! It's encouraging fact that there's a scholarship for international MS student. I got a light of hope.

>TakeruK Oh, now I really got it that GPA and GRE are different measure. So most Canadian schools receive GRE score even if they don't request? Huum, then, as one of my aiming school is UBC that says minimum GPA is 3.0, maybe I can make me a bit stronger applicant if I could give them good GRE score. I am also not sure at all that zoology or vet med program regards GRE subject more important than general GRE. Anyway, now I understand that with such a low 3.0 GPA, it seems not impossible but very hard to enter high-level school. Perhaps I have to rethink about selecting schools to apply. Thank you for advice.

starmaker Thank you for telling me encouraging story of yours! Can I ask if you're international student or domestic? I'm afraid low GPA plus without nationality of the country where my aiming school is means almost impossible to get scholarship......

>RosamundReage Thank you so much for useful info! I will ask admition staff in my prospective program about my GPA calculation. >TakeruK Yeah, they usually have minimum GPA requirement. So after getting appropriate calculation, is it almost impossible if my GPA is under minimum requirement? >spinrah Oh I didn't know some program in Canadian university need GRE. Fortunately my aiming course is not. So I wonder whether schools and specific programs without GRE regard GPA more important or not. High GRE can compensate for low GPA?

Well, how about sholarship for the sub-3.0 GPAs? This thread encourages me, 3.0 GPA can be accepted in Master course. But lower GPA means higher cost, doesn't it, especially international students?

Thank you for your all advice to me! >surefire Thank your for your kind to tell me nice thread about low GPA. As I know enough well that my GPA is too low, it's very helpful and even it encourages me! >aberrant & RosamundReage Thank you for telling me realistic but important fact and info. Yeah, I know 3.0 is too low to be accepted in such a compepetive school. So about GPA of last 2 years, my undergraduate program is 6 years (veterinary medicine) and we have less classes in last 2 years. Japanese vet med course consists of taught classes in first 4 years and individual research at lab in last 2 years. Research is only for thesis to get graduate admittion, so it doesn't reflect GPA. In this case, I should calculate GPA of first 4 years or still have to caliculate last 2 years with only a few classes? Now I again need advice about the way t compensate my low GPA. Since I work in full-time, taking new class in a univ is impossible for me. Is there another way? Also, I should explain the cause of my low GPA (it's mental disease) when I send my application to grad school? Or it just suggests I'm too weak to pursue postgraduate program?

I'm afraid my GPA (3.0 overall) is too low for any graduate program. Is this more critical to apply to Canadian or UK university than American grad school that usually has GRE?