Are you thinking about making the jump from your undergrad program to a graduate school? Wondering if all the hype about high marks is for real? How to beef up your application? How much work it’s going to be anyways? Maclean’s chatted with Jennifer M. Phelps, assistant dean and director of graduate enrolment services in the faculty of graduate studies at the University of British Columbia, to find out. Are top-notch marks really the most important qualification for getting into grad school? I think top-notch marks are really important in most graduate programs. A thing that I would...