CLEP/DSST and GPA?

[davewill]

In context I was referring to well-known public universities as a class. That's probably still too vague as a reply. For the sake of argument, let's say my goal is to get into the University of Michigan as a proxy for my ideal class of grad school. Is that specific enough?

I already know if I want to go there I had better have a 3.75 GPA or higher. I'd probably have to test well on the SAT or AP or something, too. I didn't take either when I was a kid, so I'd be taking that for the first time as an adult. My HS grades sucked due to multiple factors, most but not all of them externalities beyond my control. So, I'd have to overcome the optics of bad HS grades which I suspect is not trivial but neither is it impossibly hard.

None of that stuff is used for grad school at all, so you can forget about all HS and SAT. Are you talking about Master's or PhD? Research or professional?