Hello so I am an IB senior with a 3.5 unweighted and 3.8 weighted GPA. Basically freshman and sophomore year I had straight A’s in all honors classes and one AP class sophomore year. Junior I had a severe decline in my health (mental and physical) and got like one C mostly B’s and a couple of A’s in all IB classes. And I wrote my commonapp essay about the decline in my health. This semester I did similar to junior year and received a couple of As mostly Bs and one D in AP Physics. The reason I got a D was because there was someone in my class who I had traumatic experiences with and made me anxious and distracted (I mentioned this in my commonapp). My ACT score is a 23, super scored its 2-3 points higher I think. Any ideas of what my chances are of getting into these colleges. These aren’t all the colleges I applied to, but my current top choices. Thanks!
More info: Some of my extracurriculars are Girl Scouts, National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, Speech and Debate.
I am fairly confident in the essays I wrote, I wrote about the most influential IB Courses I’ve taken such as Theory of Knowledge and art.
These ones are slightly selective and I’m curious about my chances of getting into these
Lake Forest College
Hofstra University
Reed College
University of Washington
University of Denver
Also some more selective colleges I applied to solely bc they are my dream schools and I just had to lol, I have no expectations of getting into these only a tiny sliver of hope lol
UC Berkeley
NYU
U of Chicago
I also have several safety schools like CU Boulder and CSU.
Of course, there is more to admissions than stats, but make sure to apply to some schools where your stats are above (and well above) their admissions averages.
lol I really don’t think so because they both have extremely high acceptance rates and you’re almost guaranteed to get into CU boulder as an IB student unless you totally fail.
You might want to read the “Parents of the HS class of 2017-3.0-3.4” thread. Many of the students described on this thread have higher GPAs than this range but low-ish GPAs, have good strengths but a noticeable deficit, have few ECs, or are particularly pointy in some way (or simply don’t care so much about rankings.) Basically the thread represents good to very good normal kid stats that aren’t in the superstar category. Acceptances are rolling in, so reading this thread might help you to see patterns, and help you figure out some safeties (if there’s still time to apply to some.)
In the meantime, could you find a way to get help with your anxieties and how your environment seems to affect them? College will present all kinds of opportunities to feel anxious that will affect your ability to do well there. I think admissions officers will not only want to know what contributed to your grade drops, but (more important) what you are doing NOW to prevent that from re-occurring. You should do this for yourself, regardless of college acceptance, but on their end, colleges will want to know they are making a good investment in accepting you.
