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When you apply to graduate professional programs do not make the mistake of assuming that the schools always and only give preference to students with the top grades. Although a 3.5 or higher and/or good ACT/SAT/GRE scores can be of help, the top schools select students from their pool of applicants looking to combine diverse abilities and interests to create the strongest critical learning mass so all the students learn from one another and grow together. Architecture promotes teamwork! We have had students with 2.5 to 3.0 GPA's admitted to top schools with studio mates from Yale and Princeton. These Calvin pre-arch students have performed very well and in the top of their classes in these professional architecture programs. Their strengths were in strong liberal arts degree programs, languages like Japanese, and strong portfolios. In other words, they developed their personal strengths and interests, which enabled them to succeed.

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Harvard*
M.I.T.
Princeton
Columbia*
Yale
Rice*
California (Berkeley)*
Virginia*
Pennsylvania
Texas (Austin)
Virginia Tech		 Univ. of Washington*
Wisconsin (Milwaukee)*
Washington (St. Louis)*
Ohio State*
Miami (Florida)
North Carolina State*
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst (NY)*
Texas A & M*
Florida
21-30 Additional Schools
Michigan (Ann Arbor)*
S. California Institute of Arch*
Minnesota (Twin Cities)*
Georgia Tech
Rhode Island School of Design
Syracuse
Univ. of Oregon*
Arizona State*
Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)*		 New Mexico*
Oklahoma*
Pratt*
Univ. British Colombia*
Iowa State*
Utah*
IIT (Chicago)*
McGill
Montreal*
Detroit*
Colorado (Denver)
Illinois (Chicago)*
Miami
Auburn*
SUNY (Buffalo)

US News World Report ranking of the top graduate programs in Architecture

* Calvin students have been accepted to these programs