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Advice on academic grade/standing for architecture school
Hi
I would like to ask some advice about academic standing to get into architecture school. I'm in my 4th year of study in finance and leaning towards applying to dalhousie's beds program next year.
During my 2nd year, I had two D's which I retook and got A-s in them. My gpa right now is around A- (3.8+) but I am thinking of dropping one of my finance course ( W on transcript) because I'm not confident that I can pass it this semester. I just wanna hear some advice if those would look bad for my application ( 2 D's but repeated and a W). I estimate that by the time I apply my gpa would be around 3.70 and I am still working on my portfolio.
Thank you for your advice!!!
Effect is minuscule as long as GPA meets the minimum - and 3.7 is WAY past that minimum. Beyond that nobody really cares. Portfolio is king - ie. the main decision maker. GPA is lowest on the list of considerations for admittance. I don't think they look that closely on individual classes and their marks if it's from another major either- they just look at the overall GPA. Mine looked way worse than yours (couple fails etc..but still graduated meeting the minimum GPA and it was below that 3.7 of yours) and I got in to every M.Arch/BED I applied to in Canada including Dalhousie.
Thank you so much for the comments! That helps a lot. I think Im gonna focus now more on my portfolio.
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