chance--grades too low? no-grade-inflation!

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<p>GPA 3.1 unweighted, 3.5 weighted
A's A-'s in math and science (honors)</p>

<p>SAT cr 660 m 700 (taken once)</p>

<p>Excellent EC's (robotics team that is in the top 5 internationally, very involved in theater tech)</p>

<p>Captain of the crew team (big time committment)</p>

<p>Excellent recs</p>

<p>I go to a small private school with no grade inflation. The profile showed just 12% of those taking honors science got A's, for example. Will colleges look at that, or will they just see a 3.5 and say no way? The school does not rank, but I am not in the top 10% (5 kids), probably 20% though. Also, grades are going up--significantly better in 11th grade than before.</p>

<p>I am applying for engineering at:</p>

<p>Rice
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
UNC
UVA
Carnegie Mellon
Va Tech (safety?)</p>

<p>Can someone chance me, please? Thanks!</p>

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<p>They’ll probably look at how ‘hard’/‘easy’ your high school is, but saying that they’ll give you the benefit of the doubt based on the lack of ‘grade inflation’ is a stretch. I’ve never heard anyone talk about high schools having any kind of grade inflation/deflation, so don’t count on that to save you. I know that Rice is really uptight about GPA, so I’d probably get a counselor to explain how tough your school is and rant on about how you do great considering, and work work work to try to get it up to appease the admissions people. They’re not going to do research into how well you did comparatively in every one of your classes, so definitely work on that GPA, as shallow as that is, because it’s what they look at.</p>