Hello everyone,
I am currently a junior in high school. I want to know my chances in getting accepted into UGA, Emory, and Vanderbilt. Can anyone tell me my chances? I have had private issues that I will certainly write for explanation as to why my grades have dropped. Below are my scores:
Gpa: weighted 3.5 unweighted: 3.3
SAT: 700 writing CR: 650 Math: 650
Also, if you can put your Year of graduation, SAT or ACT scores, and GPA along with the universities that accepted you, that would help me tremendously!
GPA seems a bit low.
If you don’t mind, could you tell me what university you got accepted to and what high school GPA you had?
If you don’t mind, could you tell me what university you got accepted to and what high school GPA you had?
Still a sophomore right now but if we look at each college’s stats we’ll find that:
Emory Average GPA: 3.69 – 3.98 (unweighted 25-75th percentile)
Vanderbilt Average GPA: 3.78 (unweighted taken from Princeton Review because I couldn’t find it on Vanderbilt’s site.)
UGA Average GPA: 3.56 (unweighted)
Since you are new…you can look in the forums for the individual colleges and each year there are threads where accepted students post their stats and more. But really that isn’t all so helpful. What is better is to know stats of students from Your school. If you have naviance, use it. Or you can look at the data colleges release about the entire entering class. Type EMORY collegedata.com into google and see. Often class rank is used instead of gpa. Also the M and CR are the more important scores. If you truly have low stats compared to accepted students then it is hard to chance is you have special circumstances.
I am guessing that your child is currently studying at Brown university. If you don’t mind, could you tell me his/her stats? Also, my low GPA is due to my failure in a chemistry class (First semester failed, but I got it up to a 90 second semester). That year, I had a family problem and I had to help out. I didn’t have time to study and that caused me to fall back on my chemistry workload.
My daughter is years out of graduating and admission rates at Brown have gone from 15 pct to 9 pct since. I can hardly see how that will help you. I’m not even sure I recall correctly but just not to ignore you, something like 3.75 1490/1600, they did not have a 3 part SAT then, everyone took SAT II in writing, and I don’t remember those scores. But really, when you are well ‘in range’ for a college it is also coming down to your ECs and essays and recommendation letters. And what kind of picture you are able to paint in your application of the kind of student you are and what you bring to the class.
It sounds like you have a real reason and with that bounceback in chem, I think you will get some consideration. But 3.3 is low and you have to contend with having an actual F on the transcript. This makes you a very uncertain candidate, so choose carefully your safety schools and consider colleges that are wholistic and not so numbers driven in your mix.
What you should look at is NOT one student, but the entire student body. Here is Emory for the last reported admission cycle, using the source I mentioned that gathers the data the colleges report.
Average GPA 3.75
SAT Math 697 average
650-760 range of middle 50%
SAT Critical Reading 661 average
610-710 range of middle 50%
SAT Writing 682 average
630-730 range of middle
Try using the College Results Online tool for comparing colleges. It includes average GPA, test scores and cost.
http://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/search1ba.aspx?institutionid=140164,139940,139959,221999,139658
In the above linked, I’ve include two other Georgia public universities as an example (with Emory, Vanderbilt and UGA).
Sorry to say this, but you won’t get into Emory or Vandy with those, even UGA would be a long shot. Scores are just ok and GPA is low.
Are you a parent or student?