Chance me for Carlson?

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Hi everyone, could you tell me my chance

GPA: UW 3.4( rank quarter in my high school)

SAT: M:750 R:590 W:700 O:2040

Toefl: 100 (R:27 W:28 L:28 S:17)

International student from Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam attended a US private high school in my Junior and Senior year

Aid need: NO

ECs:

Captain soccer team in my 9,10 and 11 grade in Vietnam( I repeated 1 year in US-slow transcript)
Movie team
Several community services
Advanced physic team for city’s competition(total 10 students for a whole district/ Vietnamese city= US state.)
National honor society

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Hi @ducminh1997 - check out these links:

http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/academics/profile.html
http://www.oir.umn.edu/student/characteristics

Your SAT total is fine. Your TOEFL is, I think, above the minimum required? See this link: http://admissions.tc.umn.edu/admissioninfo/intl_english.html

Your GPA and class rank would be the only complication. You don’t mention your course work but if rigorous that’s going to help offset the low GPA.

Your SAT math score is excellent - I can’t help but think they are going to give a fair amount of weight to that. (This is a hunch. You would have no difficulty with any quantitative subject within CSOM, obviously).

Finally, being an international student from Vietnam should help you as these groups are underrepresented at Carlson.

My advice: Apply to CSOM as a target-to-low-reach with CLA as your backup. If you don’t get into CSOM you might be able to transfer after a year of stellar grades.

Good luck!