I had a 3.3 weighted gpa with a 1900 sat 1940 superscored 16 gifted and 7 or 8 aps 1.5 years jv sports some clubs. I applied to UGA Georgia Tech and University of Illinois. I was rejected from all and was too confident and didn’t throw any safety schools and ended up at an unranked school. It’s very important to always have a decent safety school!
Good helpful post. Thanks for taking the time to post and help others.
Are you planning on transferring after a year or so? If your school is unranked, then someone of your stats would be better served transferring schools.
Such an important thing to remember in the admissions process. Something to add- make sure you would actually GO to those safeties you choose, because you might have to!
The professors here won’t write me recommendations and I am unsure if any of my high school counsellors would still help me so in this current situation it doesn’t seem likely or possible.
I was in a magnet program in my high school with taking calc 3 and in order to be able to take calc 3 again or anything higher I’d have to take almost 5-6 prerequisite math courses also so you should also lookup your college curriculum so you do waste too much time repeating what you know.
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I also had a pending drug charge at the time so.
Helpful post!
Writing recommendations is part of their job. Hopefully there are profs who have been impressed by your work effort. But have you started college yet? If you are going to be a sophomore you could ask your fall semester profs although the semester won’t be completed by the time you might want the letters.
I don’t know if the pending drug charge actually did you in as far as admissions go, but it well could have if the colleges knew about it.
The bigger thing is the relatively low GPA. For what you have said, you appear to have been given the OPPORTUNITY to accomplish much, but that isn’t such a great GPA. I would wonder if the involvement in drugs had an influence in you not taking advantage of those opportunities. Whatever you do, get yourself straight and use this as a lesson to be responsible for bettering yourself to the maximum degree possible. The work you put into your studies now will pay big dividends later.
Transferring to another college is entirely possible and done quite frequently. Your ability to transfer will definitely hinge on your grades this next year. Professors should be happy to write recommendations as long as you deserve their recommendation.
Turns out i only had 12 gifted or advanced classes non including APS i checked my old stuff
From your GPA and test scores not only didn’t you have a safety you didn’t have a match school either. According to collegedata.com 79% of students at UGA had a 3.75 or higher. Only 5% of students had a GPA in your range. With GA Tech it drops down to 3%.
I know most students who got into UGA had higher gpas, but easier classes. Some APs were deemed harder like Calc BC so I figured a better form of comparison would be through SAT scores which threw UGA as a normal school for me. My sister was accepted into UGA also but had easier classes and a lower Gpa and sat scores so I assumed it wouldn’t be a reach at the time.
Have the registrar evaluate your highschool transcript. Take placemenr tests (even if they cost money, if they allow ourselves to skip levels, they save our thousands of dollars).
Have you started college yet?
If you took calculus 3, have it validated by a math professor - the unranked school is likely not used to students with that level of math. Explain the stem magnet curriculum and how you already took calculus 3 there, would like a chance to take linear algebra or differential equations, wou’d they allow ourselves to take a retired calculate 3 final so our can show what youre capable of?
If you haven’t enrolled yet, there’s still time to unenroll, get our tuition payment back, take a gap year, and receive apply to a better list of schools.
Have the registrar evaluate your highschool transcript. Take placemenr tests (even if they cost money, if they allow you to skip levels, they save you thousands of dollars).
Have you started college yet?
If you took calculus 3, have it validated by a math professor - the unranked school is likely not used to students with that level of math. Explain the stem magnet curriculum and how you already took calculus 3 there, would like a chance to take linear algebra or differential equations, wou’d they allow ourselves to take a retired calculate 3 final so our can show what youre capable of?
If you haven’t enrolled yet, there’s still time to unenroll, get our tuition payment back, take a gap year, and receive apply to a better list of schools.