<p>Please. I'm on the verge of tears. I regret my past and am trying my best now. I do have an explanation for my low GPAs and I will explain it in my essay. It is family related. I honestly enjoy school and love learning science and math. </p>
<p>Female. Asian. From New Jersey. I am a junior. </p>
<p>I've taken all honors classes and three APs.</p>
<p>SAT: 2050, 750m, 650v, 650w </p>
<p>Colleges in mind:
btw, I'm planning to major in engineering.</p>
<p>Purdue University
Northeastern University
University of Maryland
Boston University
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
PennState University Park
Drexel University
Carnegie Mellon University</p>
<p>Can I get into ANY of these colleges? Any other schools I should be looking into? Please help me! Thank you.</p>
<p>those grades are pretty bad, but it should work out somewhere if you had a really good reason for those grades and you get the 3.9 in senior year. also, that's a huge jump into junior year, so that's a big plus. good luck</p>
<p>I would take a guess and say that CMU is too large of a reach for you, unless there are circumstances that you can express to the admissions committee.</p>
<p>Boston University, the same, but to a lesser degree. </p>
<p>I say you have a fair chance for some of these institutions; others will be reaches or far reaches.</p>
<p>if i was an admission officer and you had a good reason, i'd accept you :)
but im not =</p>
<p>if you read some posts on this cc.com forum you find a lot of low gpas getting into top notch schools.. they had special circumstances..
main point of GPA is to see if you work hard (SAT's are supposedly to measure ABILITY, but it doesnt).. and if you get a 2.0 because your house burned down... thats really stupid if they didnt take that into consideration</p>
<p>You should definetely apply to University of Michigan if you want to do engineering. They don't consider your freshman GPA and even though you have a low soph GPA, your grades are going up and colleges like to see that.</p>
<p>The UC's ignore freshman year as well. My GC told me admissions looks at Junior and Senior years first and they carry a lot more weight than freshman and sophmore years. Good luck!</p>
<p>i think you definitely have a chance (def at Purdue), dont listen to people on this forum.. theyre all perfect. the jump in grades is good, i have had a similar experience. (dont spend your essay trying to defend your grades though, just let it come through naturally w/ your story or whatever you plan to talk about)</p>
<p>I won't claim to know a lot about the colleges you want to go to, but I think it's really impressive how much you improved your academics through high school.</p>
<p>A friendwas accepted at Northeastern with somewhat lower grades than yours and much lower SAT's. But if you applied, you should have heard back from them by now. Have you?</p>
<p>Thank you everyone. But if I apply to these schools, should I apply undecided or to the school of engineering? Is that too risky? Because I know these schools have a very competitve engineering program. But if I do get in indecided, do I still have a chance at the college of engineering? I am mainly focusing on Purdue as of now and am probably applying early. Hopefully, that will help me.</p>
<p>Purdue told us that they are interested in SAT scores more than GPA. You have some things going for you. You have taken Honors and AP courses. You GPA is going up. And you are a girl. It will help at certain schools. If you could get your GPA above 3.0, I think that it would help.</p>
<p>I would look at RPI. Try to find schools that have a unbalanced men to women ratio. It will help in admissions. I would also look at Ohio State. If you are looking at Purdue and Penn State, it wouldn't hurt. Good engineering program, easier to get into but still selective.</p>
<p>By all means apply in engineering. I don't think that it would hurt, esp. as you are a women.</p>