Question

If 25 students were accepted into Northwestern University's PhD program and the average GPA for students was 3.8 then what was the lowest GPA?

Answer 1

This is tough.

Answer 2

You do not have enough information to determine the lowest GPA

Answer 3

what else would i need?

Answer 4

You'd need to know the GPA's of each student.
Finding an average could vary like crazy, from having someone with 0, to having someone with 4.0 to produce that average.

Answer 5

well what can i find from this info then?

Answer 6

Is that all from the question? I just crunched some numbers and zero is a possibility. That means the range of the lowest grade is a large range,

Answer 7

http://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/graduate/admission-faq.html

Answer 8

to be honest i got the stats from this website and im tryna see what more info i can get with the given information

Answer 9

The lowest in this case i would say is 3.8 since that's what they prefer

Answer 10

no thats the average bro

Answer 11

My uncle's grad school has a minimum GPA of 3.8 i think. But generally, it can be around 3.0 to 3.33