Awful GPA, Big dreams- disaster? You decide!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying to (copy+paste):



New York Universtiy-
Boston University-
University of Maryland College Park-
UC Irvine/Santa Barbara/UC Davis-
UC Santa Cruz-
Cal State Long Beach-

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<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.0
Weighted GPA: 3.28
SAT I: 750 CR 750 Math 730 Writing (2230 total)
SAT II: History 690, Biology 690</p>

<p>Basically, my soph grades are mediocre (around 3.4 weighted average), then it took a complete nose-dive first sem of junior year (4 Cs, 2 Ds) and second semester I recovered some whilst still taking the same classes (4.0 Weighted average).</p>

<p>APs Taken (# is grade I got on AP test)/To Take Senior Year (S):
AP Biology (4)
AP English Comp (5)
AP U.S History (4)
AP English Lit (S)
AP Environmental Science (S)
AP Art History (S)</p>

<p>Average Extracirric/Outside Interests:</p>

<p>-Founded a charity to raise money to fund music lessons for inner city kids; hosted a fairly successful benefit concert.
-2 years Academic Decathalon
-Played guitar in a band for 4 years, played at venues like the Whisky Agogo in Hollywood
-About 50-75 hours of volunteer
-Employed in Retail for a few months
-Did two sports freshman/sophomore year (don't think this counts for anything because I was on JV both sports both years)</p>

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<p>nyu- reach
bu- match
not too familiar w/ the others. sorry
chance me back :D</p>

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<p>Thanks, chanced you as well.</p>

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<p>If you’re not from California, you’re unfortunately not elegible to apply to UC’s, since your GPA has to be a 3.4 or higher. Otherwise, the ones you listed are reaches with a 3.0. But I think you’re from CA.</p>

<p>NYU’s a reach because of the GPA.</p>

<p>I can kind of see you getting into BU.</p>

<p>UMDCP’s a high match/low reach</p>

<p>CSU-LB, I think you’re in.</p>

<p>You might want to add Fullerton to your list.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>He said he played a venue in Hollywood, I think he lives in California.</p>

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<p>^ I missed the “hollywood” part.</p>