Gateway to Professional Accounting Success

Gateway to Professional Accounting Success

Admission into the GPAS program is competitive and is based on major and cumulative GPA, recommendations from Professors, application essays and other criteria. Approximately twenty students are selected per year. Once selected, you will participate in a summer-long program focused on providing individualized guidance in resume writing, interviewing, teamwork, and professional behavior. Students who successfully complete the program will have the opportunity to be considered for winter internships, summer internships, or permanent positions at participating CPA firms, depending on where you are in your studies relative to the 150-hour educational requirement for the NYS CPA license.

• Grade Point Average:
  • A 3.40 cumulative GPA at Hunter College.
  • A 3.40 GPA in the required Accounting courses in the major (whatever you have completed from among ACC 271, 272, 371, 372, 373, 374, 471 & 472 (or 470 in the new major), 473 (old major only), 475 and 490 (old major only). Only grades earned at Hunter will be considered for this major GPA.
  • Students must have passed at least two accounting courses at Hunter with letter grades. Courses you are taking this semester count!
  • A 3.40 GPA in all required courses for the major. This includes the accounting courses listed above as well as business law courses, finance courses, statistics courses, microeconomics, macroeconomics, the computer requirement, and the business core electives. Again, only courses passed at Hunter count in the calculation of this GPA.
  • Please note, satisfaction of the GPA requirements does not guarantee acceptance into the program. These are minimum requirements to be considered for acceptance.
• You must provide a recommendation letter from a Hunter College Accounting professor.
• You expect to graduate from Hunter College (with a B.S. or an M.S), having earned all 150 credits required for CPA licensure, in the Spring 2025 semester or (preferably) later. All college and graduate school credits count towards the 150-hour requirement. If you plan to transition directly from our BS program to our MS program, this would qualify.
• Active participation with the Hunter College Accounting Society. Selection into the program requires your commitment to be active in the society during the 2024-2025 academic year. For those applicants who have not previously been active in the Accounting Society, your active participation must begin in Summer 2024. For most GPAS students, some of the participation with the Accounting Society will include tutoring Hunter Accounting students.