Dear Admissions Consultants,
I’m looking to pursue an MPA at NYU’s Wagner School. Other lesser choices include the New School, Fordham, and Rutgers Newark.
I am an undergrad at a fairly average regionally ranked public university. I have about a 3.5 GPA but this only due to my first two semesters (oh, freshman year). I’ve had around a 3.8 every semester since. Also, I’ve had three relevant internships as well as one job working for a campaign. I’ve taken the GREs and scored in the 90th percentile for verbal but only 60th for quant. I do plan on looking for work once I graduate and doing that for two years before applying.
Primarily, I was wondering how much admissions cared about the school I went to and if it will hurt me. Secondly, will admissions look at my GPA trend and see my improvement? And lastly, I was considering looking for work in organizing (maybe tenant or immigrant rights) but would you have any other/better suggestions in terms of realistic work I could get with just a B.A.? And if it becomes too difficult to find work right away will more internships be something they find comparable to work experience?
Thank you very much,
K.P.
