Couple questions..

[lookingahead]

I'm a high school senior, which certainly puts me out of place on this forum, but I'm quite interested in eventually attending grad school and had a couple of questions as to getting there.

 

I'm thinking about attending Texas A&M as an Economics major, and joining the joint degree MPIA program after two years (as I bring with me a year of community college dual-credit classes). The questions are:

 

1) As for the GRE, are joint-degree applicants expected to have significantly higher GRE scores than regular applicants? I heard somewhere that Econ-MPIA's were expected to have 'almost perfect' quantitative scores to get in (from one source), and I was wondering if there was any truth to that statement. 

 

2) Will my community college GPA be factored into joint degree program admissions?

 

Thanks!

Edited December 17, 2013 by lookingahead

[MsDarjeeling]

 

1) As for the GRE, are joint-degree applicants expected to have significantly higher GRE scores than regular applicants? I heard somewhere that Econ-MPIA's were expected to have 'almost perfect' quantitative scores to get in (from one source), and I was wondering if there was any truth to that statement. 

 

This is going to vary by program.  Some will say yes, some will say no, and others may tell you it depends.  Your best bet would be to reach out to the programs you're interested in and find out.

 

2) Will my community college GPA be factored into joint degree program admissions?

 

Generally those of us who started at a community college and then transferred to a University to complete our undergrad degrees have to submit transcripts from both.  So if that is the case for the programs you're interested in yes they will look at your grades from both institutions and they may do their own calculation to determine your overall gpa or they may be interested in just specific years.  This is something else you should ask them directly to get a better understanding of how you'll be evaluated.