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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am going to be applying to colleges in the coming weeks and months, and I was wondering what people thought of my college list.</p>

<p>About me:
-White male from PA
-Going into my senior year at a public high school</p>

<p>Stats:
-My GPA is a 3.42 W (out of 5); 3.0 UW- I took almost all honors and APs
-SAT: 1990 (MATH: 700, CR: 640, WRITING: 650)
-Strong grade trend:
Freshman GPA: 2.2 UW
Sophomore GPA: 2.7 UW
Junior GPA: 3.66 UW</p>

<p>Activities:
-3 years of baseball
-3 years at one job
-1 year at another job
-3 years in one club</p>

<p>My College List:
* Penn State/State College
* Rutgers NB/Piscataway
* Towson University
* SUNY Binghamton
* West Virginia University
* Ohio State University
* U Pittsburgh </p>

<p>P.S.: Are optional essays really optional?
-Thanks</p>

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<p>GPA needs work and I’m not too familiar. I used to live in Ohio and my sis got in with a 2.6 but like a 2200 SAT. </p>

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<p>I am not very familiar with those schools but your upward gpa trend helps an do the essays!</p>

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<p>yeah your upward trend is really good just keep it up this last year and your SAT scores are pretty decent, I think you’ll have a good chance!</p>

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<p>thanks for the help guys</p>

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<p>great upward trend, and i suspect your senior year will raise the bar even higher. yes, optional essays are really optional, but with your relatively low gpa you should definitely answer them. maybe talk about baseball or your job experiences? with good essays, you may be able to make up for the gpa. good luck!</p>

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<p>You seem to have very good chances at every single school you listed. Based on their statistics and yours, I think you might very well be accepted to all of them.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks for the support, Lunacy.</p>

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<p>bumppppppp</p>

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<p>Ok you’re definately in for Ohio State. I know people with half your GPA that got into that school. Keep in mind that its huge and they accept a fairly good amount of people, with many using it as a safety. Penn state might be a slight reach, but you have a good shot with that SAT score as long as you raise the grades. And the rest I’m not familiar with. But good luck!</p>

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<p>Most of those colleges, you should confidently apply to. Your chances into getting into them are pretty high.</p>

<p>I would, in your case, go to [::</a> College Planning Made Easy | Inside Source for College Admissions Requirements](<a href=“http://www.collegeboard.com%5D::”>http://www.collegeboard.com) and look up the colleges and check out their average GPA/SAT scores and see what they look at.</p>

<p>If you have the extra time, go to their college websites and look at their freshman profile of 2009, too.</p>

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<p>Hey, thanks for the help and support Reruru</p>

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<p>wow, your grade trend really is better, but it’s still not like… impressive. IDK, it would seem to suggest that you’re in good classes not to be legit interested in them, but just cause it looks good? maybe this is how colleges interpret, i guess :&lt;/p>

<p>I think all are matches except for Penn State and UPitt, but i might be wrong (not very confident in my knowledge of those)</p>

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<p>thnks for the help moosecream</p>

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<p>i would say in to everything, grades and sat are great, but ecs are lacking, you might want to try and apply to some reach schools like bucknell and upenn and cornell</p>

<p>optional essays- if you are serious about the school, i would do the optional essays, if you are on the fence then admissionw illl definately look at the essay, my college admission counselor told me to send everything
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<p>west virginia - in
penn state - match</p>

<p>i dont have a reference point (aka my friends who got in) for any of the others</p>

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<p>thanks for the help guys</p>

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<p>bumppppppppp</p>

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<p>I think your upward grade trend should get you into a few of these schools. As other posters have implied, make sure you do any optional essays. It certainly will show that you are interested to adcoms. </p>

<p>Good luck! Please chance me. </p>

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<p>In at all for sure except OSU, Pitt, and Bing, in order from most probable to least.</p>