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If you really are getting a 0.6 GPA, you aren’t doing a job that requires a higher degree. You can’t get into colleges with that low of a GPA unless you start at a community college or somewhere that offers a fresh start.

3.3 GPA = 88% percentile grade = B letter grade.

Is your high school GPA good enough for New York University? The average high school GPA for admitted students at New York University is 3.62 on a 4.0 scale. This is a solid GPA, and New York University is competing for quality students who have done well in high school.

Applicants require above average high school grades to get into Pace University-New York. If your high school grades are above the average 3.3 GPA, you have a very good chance of being admitted as Pace University-New York accepts 79% of all applicants.

Is a 3.4 GPA good? A 3.4 unweighted GPA means that you’ve earned a high B+ average across all of your classes. Your GPA is higher than the national average of a 3.0, so you will have a good chance of being accepted to many colleges. 64.66% of schools have an average GPA below a 3.4.

Is your high school GPA good enough for USC? The average high school GPA for admitted students at USC is 3.79 on a 4.0 scale. (You can calculate your high school a GPA here.) This is a very competitive GPA, and USC is clearly accepting students at the top of their high school class.

Although an undergraduate GPA of 3.2 is low for many medical schools, having a great MCAT should still keep you in the running for many medical schools. And even if you have an average MCAT score with a 3.2 GPA, you should still be able to get into some medical schools.

A 3.3 certainly won’t eliminate you from consideration, at the very least. Anything GPA over a 3.0 should certainly be on your resume since that’s one of the standard cutoffs and many recruiters assume resumes without a GPA are below that. A 3.3 isn’t low though. I was rocking a solid 2.7 most of my career at tech.

Many medical schools require that you have at least a 3.0 minimum GPA to even apply to medical school. However, you probably need at least a 3.5 GPA to be competitive for most (if not all) medical schools.

Most medical schools set a cap at a 3.0 GPA. Generally, a low GPA is less than a school’s 75th or 80th percentile. You can also review your chosen school’s average GPA for accepted students. If your GPA is more than 0.3 points below that average, you can assume the school will consider it low.

Medical school is in fact “school,” and just like every school, it relies on grades to stratify students into quartiles and ranks. However, based on some objective data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP), the actual grades that you attain might not be as important as you thought they were.