undergraduate GPA's

[SLPtobe1093]

I was wondering if anybody knows if grad schools take into consideration where you went to get your Bachelor's. For example, if someone gets a 3.8 GPA at a lower ranked school versus someone who gets a 3.4 GPA at a higher ranked school. Would they take the person who got a 3.8 at a lower ranked school over the person who got a 3.4 at a higher ranked school?

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[kayyyyy_]

I want to say yes but I don't think that's the case :[ 

[lily48slp]

From what I've heard from my professors and other people on this forum, it sounds like GPA is one of the ways to do the initial sorting of applications, especially for schools that get a lot of them. I would think (but I don't know) that a lower GPA would contribute to someone initially being sorted in a lower tier but a factor like a very difficult school could push them up in the rank when looked at more closely. I'm just speculating though.

[slpmayb2123]

Tiers really don't matter in SLP as they do for fields like medicine. I know that at my undergraduate institution, they organize incoming applications by GPA and GRE and first review the top 25% of applicants. My institution is in the top 50 of all SLP MS programs, so that may contribute to their emphasis on quantitative measures of success, but understand that most schools do have a weed-out system. I have heard of schools automatically having a 3.5 cut off, but I don't know if any school would outright admit that. 

[Afternoonprogram]

I'm going to guess that they don't go by school and instead straight numbers.  It's not like schools are classified as being rigorous or easy -instead it's a perception.  Someone could have a difficult professor at a community college and an easy professor at Brown -it's impossible to know.  I did my undergrad at an East Coast school that was very research-based/academic focused.  I live in the Midwest now and most people are not familiar with it.  Likewise, people talk to me about "excellent" schools in the Midwest and I've often never heard of them.

 

[thespeechblog.com]

I agree with most of what's been said. I will add that I have heard of schools "adjusting for grade inflation."