Undergraduate GPA does not predict success in PhD programs for cohorts of MS students at two minority-serving institutions

• Megumi Fuse ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fuse@sfsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9245-9465

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• Kenneth A. Rath,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rath Educational Evaluation and Research, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Blake Riggs,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Raymond M. Esquerra,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Alan Peterfreund,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sagefox Consulting Group, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Carlos Gutierrez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Frank Bayliss

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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