Am I going to get REJECTED by all 8?... PLEASE TELL ME NOT!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SAT: 1930 (690 Math, 670 Wrtigin, 570 Reading)
SAT II: None taken. Might take Math IIBC in January (650-700+)
GPA: 2.9 Cumulative (2.8 Freshman, 2.2 Sophomore, 3.6 Junior, 2.9 Senior)
First two years were low because of living in an unstable environment/moving; senior year, course load was high...
State Residency: Virginia (Northern Virginia)
Major: Computer Science</p>

<p>Course Load:
Freshman - biology honors
Sophomore - ap world history
Junior - ap english
Senior - ap calculus ab, ap computer science ab, ap psychology</p>

<p>EC's:
Activities
• JV Basketball Captain
• Web Design Club Founder and President</p>

<p>Volunteer Experience
• Community Service Project Construction - La Paz, Bolivia
Helped build house foundation and floor structure for a new residential implementation for an adoption center.
• Community Service Technical Service - La Paz, Bolivia
Built and maintained website for the community service department at school; photographer.
• Habitat for Humanity - La Paz, Bolivia
Volunteer for American Embassy; dug 6 ft. deep x 6 ft. wide holes for bathroom and pipeline installations.
• Smithsonian Institute – Natural Museum of Natural History
Managed and submitted digital microscope images to world’s largest, online database of paleobotonical fossil collections.
• Volunteer Fairfax
Saved the non-profit organization hundreds of dollars and much time by fixing a technical issue they had with one of their newspaper publications format.</p>

<p>Work Experience
• Freelance web/graphic design in La Paz, Bolivia.
Designed online teacher portfolios.
• Summer job at Janmedia Interactive (<a href="http://www.janmedia.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.janmedia.com&lt;/a&gt;)
Because Janmedia was too busy sealing deals with higher end clients ($100k+), they relied on me to deal with the high influx of requests from smaller clients.</p>

<p>Other
• Took a summer college credit course at George Mason and got a B.</p>

<p>Recommendations
• Smithsonian/Research Associate - Berkeley Graduate
• Janmedia's Presdient + Vice President (wrote a really excellent recommendation) - William and Mary Graduates</p>

<p>MY LIST (already applied to some of them):
1. George Mason // INSTATE
2. James Madison // INSTATE
3. Virginia Tech // INSTATE
4. Northeastern
5. U. Washington
6. Lehigh
7. U. Maryland
8. William and Mary // INSTATE + RECOMMENDATION + COUSIN ALUMNUS</p>

<p>EXTRAS (want to apply but might not... do you guys think its worth it because my chances are slim?)
9. U. Virginia // INSTATE
10. U. Southern California // LEGACY</p>

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<p>Don't even bother with 9 and 10.</p>

<p>The rest of your schools, I don't know about.</p>

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<p>George Mason: Match
James Madison: Match<br>
Virginia Tech: Match
Northeastern: Slight Reach/Reach (GPA...)
U Washington: Reach
Lehigh: Reach
U Maryland: Reach
William & Mary: Reach</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Please some input would be nice...</p>

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<p>man your gpa is gonna hurt you big time.</p>

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<p>Yeah but I think everything else in my application is ok...</p>

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<p>rejected from william+mary, UVA, USC.</p>

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<p>USC is a long shot even if ur legacy because of ur SAT and GPA :(
gl anyways!!</p>

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<p>What about my chances at the other colleges, particularly Lehigh?</p>

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<p>Lehigh is probably a big reach.</p>

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<p>3 APs really isnt a hard courseload, you need a better excuse than that for a 2.9</p>

<p>I have 5 APs with a 3.95 UW, so it really isnt that hard</p>

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<p>Wow you really are conceited aren't ya?
It's subjective and there are many factors that may determine how hard a class is. Like my calculus class, my teacher does such a poor job explaining things that I have no idea what I'm doing and consequently, I do poorly on the test because I have no grasp of the material. In any case...</p>

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<p>my friend got rejected from virginia tech with a 1380 sat and 2.1 gpa, so with a 2.9 and slightly similar sat, slightly lower tho, but with the addition of your multitude of your extracurriculars, I'd say that you have a optimal chance. So yes, a match. JMU and GMU should be matches for you because of the gpa, but not by much... i would say that you would get into all three of those schools.</p>

<p>dont count uva out, if you are an urm, then you would have an excellent shot, but I dont know that.</p>

<p>I also know that WIlliam and Mary for you might be a big reach because we had two students in our school apply and only one got in. The one that got in was number 3 in our school and had a perfect gpa and dominant sat, the one that didnt had a slightly better academic record. Just infomation that may help you. Good luck with your college application process.</p>

<p>re-cap
jmu/gmu/tech high safety/low match
w&m reach</p>

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<p>steven, what about lehigh, maryland, northeastern, washington??
i also have a really good recommendation from my bosses at work, who are alumni..</p>

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<p>i dont know about those, but u'll probaly get into maryland too. I forgot to mention that... it's probaly a 70% in for u. I have no experience or idea with the other colleges/universities.</p>

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<p>maryland-reach</p>

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<p>I think JMU, GMU and Tech are matches.</p>

<p>UVA, WM and USC are out of reach or nearly out of reach.</p>

<p>The rest reaches.</p>

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<p>Maryland is that hard to get into?
And what about Lehigh!!? Is USC harder to get into than WM or UVA?</p>

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<p>you have a 2.9 GPA, all of these schools will be hard for you</p>