<p>So im already a college student. Im a Junior doing a math major at a Tier IV university (basically a 4-year community college, is that how they call it?).</p>
<p>Florida International University (FIU)</p>
<p>Its in Miami. Many people think bad of the university locally since theres UM around the corner. </p>
<p>I never did any "chance me" threads since I just decided to apply to FIU only, I got accepted and I called it a day. I thought that some of my weakest points would never let me get in another university. However, I was wondering if I had a chance of attending a more prestigious university than FIU?</p>
<p>SAT: 1310</p>
<p>800 math
510 cr</p>
<p>3.25 unweighted gpa and a 4.4 weighted gpa. I did the IB program and received my diploma.</p>
<p>Im an immigrant to this country, however, I been in the US for 7 years and I have seen people do better in the critical-reading section while being in the US for less time, so I guess I cant blame the fact I wasnt born here, i guess im just naturally bad in languages.</p>
<p>I had lots of Cs in my high school days and even two Ds in my senior year etc. I guess what kept my gpa from going sub-3 was that I always easily aced all my math and science classes while doing bad in other classes I wasn't interested in. I was always the lazy guy that didnt do anything in class but always well in tests. I never did homework etc. I always had this in the back of my mind which kept telling me that I didnt have a good enough work-ethic for other prestigious universities etc.</p>
<p>So right now in my university, everytime I tell people that I had a 800 in math, they freak out and question me what the hell im doing at FIU, saying I could have gone to a much better university.</p>
<p>This got me thinking, if I could indeed have gone to a better university given the obvious weaknesses of my stats, which led me to make this thread.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>