<p>1850 SAT ( 570R 610M 670W) 3.56 GPA in a top ranked public school in NJ, Parents got divorced my Soph year took a bit of a hurting on my GPA…</p>
<p>EC’s: ALJBS ( American legion jersey boys state= leadership week that teachers at my school nominated me for), International Board of my Jewish youth organization, Treasurer for school Student Council, 3 year Varsity Baseball Player, Chem club, Treasurer of Jewish
Culture club, Summer Camp Counselor for special education kids, Community service: taught special education elementary school children how to play soccer, </p>
<p>important Classes:
Freshman: Honors Geometry, World History, Bio, Spanish 2, English 1 Honors
Soph: Algebra 2 Honors, Chem, Honors US 1, Spanish 3, English 2 Honors
Junior: Math Analysis ( Trig/precalc Honors), AP Chemistry, US 2, Spanish 4, British Literature Honors
Senior: AP Literature, AP Calc AB, Physics, MCP Humanities( college level class like art history)</p>
<p>(I’m doing an alumni interview on Sunday, that should go well. I applied Regular but I’m debating changing it to EDII)</p>
<p>I’m actually not too sure (I applied too!). I have basically the same GPA as you (I have a 3.58). To be honest, it’s quite low for Brandeis.
So you took all honors and 3 AP’s right? Or am I reading incorrectly? haha</p>
<p>Considering you took all honors and 3 AP’s, it MIGHT hurt you a bit. Since you had an emotionally unstable period due to your family’s situation, they might overlook it. A LOT of my friends have like a 3.7-4.0 taking 6-8 AP’s (note that they had crazy schedules after school too). I only took 6 because I wouldn’t have been able to handle more than 6 AP’s </p>
<p>Your EC’s are decent, you had an interview, and you have decent SAT’s (better than mines though! xD …but I didn’t submit it). I’d say you have a shot. Not a BIG shot, but a chance. Also assuming your essays a great!
Don’t worry…I mean… you submitted your apps already right?
All you can do now is wait…
I hope our results come out positive!</p>
<p>Keeping it real:
Your best chance would be to use Brandeis’ “alternative submission” option whereby you can submit an academic portfolio in lieu of standardized test scores. Your GPA is low and the problem is that your SAT basically “confirms” your GPA. You need to prove to them that you can do well at Brandeis and the problem is that your stats do not show that at all.</p>
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