<p>Will getting 2 C's (in math and science) in second semester junior year pretty much ruin chances for acceptance for an in-state student?</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 after junior yr
SAT: 2170</p>
<p>Few EC's--one leadership EC and band and a smattering of clubs (no leadership)</p>
<p>tough to say, they probably won't be bothered too much if your final grade was still an A or B. Where you rank is probably the most important factor to look at right now.</p>
<p>Don't worry too much about the 2 C's. Your GPA and SAT are very high. The C's aren't helping too much considering the vast majority of students accepted to UVa don't have C's. That being said, I received a Likely Letter even with a C in Calculus (starts with C for a reason). Focus on your essays and try to get more involved during senior year. Maybe a sport or volunteering would improve your chances with UVa.</p>
<p>If the C's are on your final transcript they will hurt your chances. </p>
<p>The 3.7 is on the low end when compared to a ton of competing UVa applicants with perfect grades and equally high SAT scores.</p>
<p>Vistany, there are not "tons" of UVa applicants with perfect GPA's...especially in-state. I still remember when I did a chance thread and you said that my stats were not comparable to other UVa applicants...then I got a LL.</p>
<p>No, one of the C's will be a B on the final transcript (isn't that the year grade?). It was a year long course and she got an A the first semester, and C the second semester.</p>
<p>The other C will be on the transcript, since it was a one-semester math class. </p>
<p>Yeah, it will be close as to whether she is admitted or not.</p>
<p>Yeah, I have noticed that there are a couple of people who are consistently negative, in some way or other, in their responses. I see the same names and the same negativity. </p>
<p>still, astringent can serve its purpose. It can make people feel they need to start working hard if they want to have any chance at all. </p>
<p>Thanks jask925, however.</p>
<p>Yeah, your miserable existence is over. Why bother trying. Come on! Make sure you grades trend upwards and you will be fine. My D had almost straight B's and C's her freshman year and still ended up at a top 25 school. You don't have to get perfect to get into these schools. Most of the people on this board complaining that they only got a 2350 on the SAT so their life is over are either neurotic and need help or trolls out to get people fired up. Just focus and you'll be fine.</p>
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<p>For the record, I don't respond to chances threads based on my opinion, because I'm not an adcom. Most people know that I only report the factual data from Naviance Scattergrams.</p>
<p>When Pensive posted her daughters data I provided a breakdown of applicants with a 3.7 from this years applicant pool. Here is the link. </p>
<p>It is not being negative, it is simply reporting data.</p>
<p>That expression, being 'on the bubble'.</p>
<p>does that mean you draw a circle on a line graph from the lowest accepted GPA/SAT to the highest (or 4.0, 2400), and the bubble is a fraction to the left of that circle, or on the surface of the circle? </p>
<p>So your scores are riding on the outer surface, or bubble, of the circle, meaning you just missed an acceptable score? Is that what 'being on the bubble means'?</p>
<p>Oh, her school does not rank.</p>
<p>And I think she has course rigor: hardest chemistry in 11th grade, first semester of calculus in 11th grade, all teachers in 11th grade have Ph.D.s. Senior yr will be hardest physics (calculus based), calculus 2 and then 3, and several other courses, but those 2 are the hardest. these courses are supposedly harder than AP courses, who knows.</p>
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<p>No, the words "on the bubble" was a nice was of saying unlikely based on the data contained in the Naviance Scattergram compared with the data you provided. You will recall that I wrote:</p>
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My county FFx in VA shows that a person with a 3.7 and something approaching a 2200 SAT is really on the bubble. Using actual data from this years applicant pool in Fairfax, not statewide, that GPA/SAT combo. There were six applicants with a 3.7 and SAT scores ranging from 1850 to 2260. Of the six applicants two were denied, three were waitlisted and one got in. Surprisingly the 3.7 / 2260 was waitlisted while a person with a lower score but same GPA was the one admitted.
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<p>As I described above this is simply a linear report. Everyone running across the 3.7 GPA Line was either waitlisted or rejected with the exception of the person with a GPA of 3.7 and an SAT of 2063. An applicant with the same GPA but an SAT of 2260 was rejected. I am not in a position to comment on the reason why. Many of these folks have tremendous rigor as well, full IB, dual enrollement, stellar resumes. As I stated earlier, I'm merely reporting actual data. I didn't mean to make you mad.</p>
<p>No I wasn't mad. I do think her chances are 50-50. Thanks for the data. </p>
<p>You know, it could be the 2260 didn't want to go to UVa and it showed. Or perhaps the essay wasn't up to snuff.</p>
<p>This Naviance data is only available to your school, right?</p>
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<p>Not just my school, but all high schools in FFx County.</p>
<p>A lot of counties have it. I know Montgomery County in Maryland has it as well.</p>
<p>FYI, the Naviance data for each of my kids' schools is for their schools only, not for a county or a group of schools. They must each do it differently. We have three kids in three schools........two at boarding, one at a private at home</p>
<p>Not sure if they've since fixed it, but there used to be a bug that allowed you to log in to other school's naviances...but my school doesn't use it, nor does anyone in my state, I think.</p>
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<p>Our county provides both individual, as well as aggregated data</p>