<p>OK, I SCREWED UP MY FROSH/SOPH year. I will not lie. I finished my freshman year with an weighted GPA of 2.7, and my soph. year with a weighted GPA of 3.2. Below is my current GPA info to date. I really want to go to a great college! I am an IB student, and have been since fifth grade.</p>
<p>IB English I - A
IB Biology - A
IB Math Studies - C
IB Spanish IV - B
IB Psychology - A
IB Theory of Knowledge - A
IB European History - A</p>
<p>W GPA: 5.0
UW GPA: 3.5</p>
<p>ACT: 29
SAT: Didn't take it....Will that hurt me?</p>
<p>I have an international background as an IB student and People to People Student Ambassador. I do soccer, debate and mock trial (I hope to become a lawyer).</p>
<p>Based on your GPA/ACT, it seems like CMU is not the best fit for you. Have you tried looking at Brown? Perhaps even Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Can’t add much more to that. With those low grades and ACT score, you’d be a much better fit for Brown or Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Even though you’ve picked it up Junior year, your GPA was still fairly low at a 3.5. The C in Math Studies can’t help either since it’s the easiest math made available by the IBO. Your ACT score is at the bottom 25% of applicants who apply to CMU which certainly doesn’t help. Your extra curricular activities are also rather thin and they don’t really support any one area of interest. High Reach, and I’d recommend finding schools where your stats fit the school.</p>
<p>"Even though you’ve picked it up Junior year, your GPA was still fairly low at a 3.5. The C in Math Studies can’t help either since it’s the easiest math made available by the IBO. Your ACT score is at the bottom 25% of applicants who apply to CMU which certainly doesn’t help. Your extra curricular activities are also rather thin and they don’t really support any one area of interest. High Reach, and I’d recommend finding schools where your stats fit the school. "</p>
<p>And what schools do you think WILL fit my stats? And dont suggest community colleges or low rated state universities such as SIU. if it must be a public university, im looking along the lines of U of I, UC Davis, UC San Diego, U of Washing. etc.</p>
<p>“With those low grades and ACT score, you’d be a much better fit for Brown or Dartmouth.”</p>
<p>What the heck? If you can’t get into Carnegie Mellon, you sure as heck cannot get into two Ivy League schools! </p>
<p>Dude, if you want us to name colleges, we have to be honest. You cannot just wake up and say, “I want to go to a great college!”
I’m sorry, it does not work like that. Your GPA isn’t impressive whatsoever. Hopefully, the rest of your resume is better than what you posted.
Mabye, you can get into the University of Washington, or the University of Illinois. Definitely not UC San Diego. Don’t even think about Berkeley…</p>
<p>Haha, sorry about my previous post. Reading it again it comes off a lot harsher than I intended. What state do you live in? That will obviously change what state schools people recommend. Your stats aren’t awful, but you really need a more realistic outlook, as Pranam0 so subtly hinted.
U of Washington has an average GPA of somewhere around 3.6 but it <em>might</em> be possible to get in. The only problem for you is that most public universities are really dependent on numbers only. Look at some small private schools, I’d recommend College Board’s custom college matchmaker: [College</a> MatchMaker - Type of School](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>You know, posting on 50 some different threads on College Confidential is probably a very ineffective way to choose what colleges to look at. Reguardless, you might want to change your user name, because it is does invite a bit of sarcasm. You really need to talk to a college counselor at your school, or pursue some of the web college match services to narrow it down. There’s hundreds of books out there, see where you fit. Does your school have the Naviance program-that would help you immensely.</p>
<p>There are probably many different outstanding schools you could get into. But if your true desire is to get into law school, that should narrow down your choices. It is my understanding that the main criteria they look at for law school will be your GPA and LSAT scores, not where you get your undergraduate degree. Do you really want to pay $52K/yr for undergraduate school before paying a couple hundred K more for law school? Does it actually matter where you go to for a bachelors degree in your case? I think I’d go to where it is cheap, where you’d want to live, and where you can get a good education ending up with a high GPA. CMU is not known for inflated grades. At all. You pretty much need to be in to what you’re doing around this school, I’ve heard. My son is taking summer classes there right now, working his butt off-and 1/3 of the way through the semester, the class average in his CS class is 50%. And I don’t think they grade on a curve. Probably not the way to get into law school. Good luck!</p>