<p>STATS</p>
<p>GPA: 3.4 UW (top 25% of class)
ACT: 32</p>
<p>AP (school only offers 3)
U.S. History
English
Government</p>
<p>I also run track and have been in contact with the coach, i have the state record in the 800m with a time of 1:52.35 but have not competed at the national level. The coach has informed me that i am on his list but can not promise me anything with my GPA being below average.</p>
<p>Athletes...your kind is resented here :( Good luck, but we can't tell you much other than that you have better chances than all of us do</p>
<p>From what I've seen, your GPA is low even for a recruited athlete. If your GPA is from a not very competitive high school (the fact it only offers 3 APs may or may not be indicative of that), it makes your GPA even more problematic. While I clearly don't know the GPA of most recruited athletes, the lowest I have seen for admittees is 3.6 UW from good high schools for applicants who were/are nationally ranked in their sport.</p>
<p>^AdmissionsAddict, what in your opinion is a neccessary GPA range for a nonhooked(i.e. not legacy or recruited athlete) applicant for Yale(3.8-4.0 for instance)??</p>
<p>yea I would say 3.8 to 4.0 would be the standard. But there are a lot of other factors that come into play.</p>
<p>Wait... what if you have a 3.55 and you're ranked first? Our school has grade deflation.</p>
<p>Oh then again like i said many factors come into play. Rank is always considered before UW GPA. My school doesnt rank, so colleges will look at GPA.</p>
<p>If you have 3.55, but are #1, then it's a different story. I bet very few schools deflate to that point. You'd also have to look at the deflation in the context of where graduates of your high school go. People usually think of deflation happening at highly competitive high schools, but there could be a school that has crazy grade deflation but only 20% of the school goes on to college. It's all about context.</p>
<p>3.8-4.0 sounds about right for the range a realistic Yale applicant should be in. Again, it's all about context. A 3.8 from a highly competitive high school is very different from a 3.8 from a mediocre high school that doesn't deflate grades.</p>
<p>By the way, evil<em>asian</em>dictator, an interview with President Levin which I've posted a few times states that admitted legacies have higher GPAs and test scores than the average admittee. I know some do not to believe him, but I'm just throwing it out there because your post implies a legacy applicant would be judged by a different GPA range. I don't want to take this thread on a legacy tangent. I just want to throw Levin's statement out for what it's worth.</p>
<p>Watch out, ususally the more competitive a local public school is the more grade inflation there is because everyone wants/needs the A for college admissions to top schools. This was the case at the local high schools in my town but I went to a top NE boarding school and was surprised at how quickly my grades fell because of even smarter kids and grade curves instead of scales so that grades were deflated and weren't bunched in the A range but rather spread out across the curve. Colleges typically have regional admissions people who know the high schools well enough to distinguish between which has rampant grade inflation and which do not have nearly as much or any at all.</p>