<p>Hello, I'm a junior and please tell me if I at least have a shot. I know my ACT score is not the best but I am taking it again in April. This is really the only school I ahve ever wanted to go to. </p>
<p>GPA: 5.2 on a 5 scale, because of honors classes. I also have no idea as to how to change it to UW's GPA.
ACT:27
Didn't take SAT yet, but planning
From Illinois
Caucasian</p>
<p>Activities:</p>
<p>Freshman Year Activities:
Student Council
Baseball
Fall Play
Spring Musical
Guitar lessons</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Habitat For Humanity
Acafellas Acapella Group-On ABC 7 Chicago News Morning Television broadcast
Snowball Club
Snowball Retreat in Wisconsin
Lacrosse
Guitar lessons </p>
<p>Junior:
Honors Choir (In School)
Acafellas Acapella group
Habitat For Humanity
Habitat for Humanity Summer Building trip in West Virginia
Snowball Club
Lacrosse
Fall-Play
Spring Musical
National Honors Society
Choir-Section Leader
Community Service:Ronald McDonald House, 20 hours
Community Service: Toy Express, 35 hours</p>
<p>Also, I've heard that Wisconsin only cares about standardized testing and GPA. true?</p>
<p>Also , I have taken all 4 years of all the required subjects.</p>
<p>2 AP classes currently; AP US and AP lang and comp
3, possibly 4 next year; AP Government, AP Micro-Economics, AP Environmental Science, and AP Literature and Comp
honors spanish, english, and history all 4 years
honors science 3 years, and honors math freshman year (Got a B, so went down to regular).</p>
<p>Definitely a shot – but you’ve gotta keep working hard.</p>
<p>Keep your grades up for this semester, maintain a solid GPA with your AP’s next year (and seriously question whether it’s more important to you to be in all those APs and risk a lower grade).</p>
<p>Also–the ACT, in order for it to be a sure bet, should go up 2 points. Don’t get me wrong, you’ve got an acceptable ACT, but out of staff it’s a tough, tough game.</p>
<p>Good luck – but don’t worry about these threads. Go keep working hard, enjoying your junior year, and live in the moment. Life is too short to be getting overwhelmed about this–keep doing your best and stay focused.</p>
<p>We look forward to hearing how it goes – keep us posted!</p>
<p>Wow, thank you so much. Honestly, I was expecting pretty much all negative replies because of my ACT, but thanks for putting things into perspective.</p>
<p>Unweighted gpa- just use a 4.0 scale for A,B,C =4,3,2… add or subtract .3 for + and -. Ask you school how to convert to a 4.0 scale. No extra points for honors/AP. gpa and test scores count most. Many will have the usual EC’s. Read up on things on the UW website admissions page/links.</p>
<p>your in</p>
<p>theres no way you just “have a shot”</p>
<p>Thanks man haha this website just scares me all these people get 30s and don’t get in and thanks for the gpa wis75</p>