Hi all,
I have one question concerning my undergrad average.
I finished my B.A. in Economics in a Portuguese university, and in Portugal the scale we use to calculate the undergrad averages is different from the one used in the US and Britain (i.e. the GPA). Rather than a scale that goes from 0 to 4.0, the Portuguese scale goes from 0 to 20, where 10 is the minimum required to pass (the grades are given in integers, so a 13.6 is a 14).
My undergrad average is 14, which, by Portuguese standards (particularly my university), is not a bad score. I finished on the top 13 percentile of my graduating class, and the best student got a 15 average.
However, when I took my GMAT in June, i converted my average to the GPA scale, and it equaled a 2.8 GPA. After some investigation, I noticed in several posts that 2.8 is actually considered a poor GPA by US standards.
Of course, I am concerned, because I'm afraid that the schools to which I sent my GMAT report (namely London Business School and Berkeley-Haas) will see my 2.8 GPA right on the top of the report and disregard me at once.
There is nothing I can do about these schools, but I am planning to apply to some more, so here goes my question: when I ask GMAC to send again my GMAT reports to the new schools, should I go to my MBA.com profile and take out my GPA from the report, to avoid any preconceived ideas about my undergrad grades?
Secondly, do schools such as LBS, Harvard, Stanford, etc, make a direct conversion of my average to the GPA scale and consider exclusively that score, disregarding things such as class ranking for example?
I know that other things such as the GMAT score and the work experience matter, but I am more comfortable here - 720 on the gmat and 6 years experience as a management consultant at Accenture, with three dedicated to strategy consulting.
It's the GPA that is really worrying me...
Thanks for any feedback that you can give me.
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