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What grad school and what program? Grad schools are different then undergrads. My daughter did not do that well on her GRE's but she had excellent grades in her undergrad at a small (unknown) private college and then three years of very interesting jobs. She is now going to a well known college for her Masters. I don't think it's as cut and dried as GPA and College.
I agree that it's not as simple as just school versus grades. That said, I think the higher GPA from a CUNY is going to be, in itself, far better than the lower GPA from a SUNY. All those other variables -- GRE, recommendations, research projects, other activities, etc. -- are also going to come into play. Usually grad schools also look at GPA within major or within relevant coursework, so if the lower GPA is because of lower grades in non-relevant coursework it will be easier to overcome than if the grades are just lower across-the-board. I've never applied for medical school, but for my graduate school I had to break down my undergraduate GPA into GPA within major and GPA from final two years. I think the low GPA (low for competitive medical school admission, that is) is going to hurt, though, so if it were me I'd scramble to boost that before application time, and make sure that the rest of the resume is impressive.
Where you did your undergrad isn't really a factor in graduate admissions.
This doesn't hold true across the various majors; maybe even not across the various schools.
It becomes an issue particularly if accreditation is a factor. For example if you earned an undergraduate engineering degree that is not from an ABET program, or an undergraduate business degree that is not from an AACSB program...you may have issues getting into their graduate counterparts that do hold these accreditations.
For extremely competitive graduate programs, they will look for any excuse not to admit someone...even subjective factors such as their perception of the institution where you earned your undergraduate degree.
This doesn't hold true across the various majors; maybe even not across the various schools.
It becomes an issue particularly if accreditation is a factor. For example if you earned an undergraduate engineering degree that is not from an ABET program, or an undergraduate business degree that is not from an AACSB program...you may have issues getting into their graduate counterparts that do hold these accreditations.
For extremely competitive graduate programs, they will look for any excuse not to admit someone...even subjective factors such as their perception of the institution where you earned your undergraduate degree.
1 student attends a SUNY and maintains a gpa of 3.0
2nd student attends a CUNY with a gpa of 3.8.
Both students wants to go to grad school upon completion. Which one is more likely to get selected.
You have to give more information. Law schools use GPA and LSAT without much consideration of the major or the school. Med schools, its all about the MCAT, Mathematics accelerated PhD programs is all about the professors that recommend you. Business Schools use the GMAT. Anyone who wants to can go to graduate school in education, blah, blah, blah.
A college can have regional accreditation for the entire institution, yet lack professional accreditation in a particular department. In fact, it's pretty common.
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