<p>Hi! I am a Maryland resident, and I would like to do a double major with Finance or Economics and History. </p>
<p>Ethnicity: White</p>
<p>My Top Schools in order: 1. UMD College Park 2. Ohio State 3. University of Texas At Austin 4. Penn State University Park. 5. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 6. University of Florida 7. Syracuse 8. University of Illinois 9. George Mason 10. Virginia Tech</p>
<p>GPA: 3.2(uw) 3.8(w) (I know they stink, but they are upward trending)</p>
<p>SAT: 650 reading 650 writing 590 math</p>
<p>ACT: 28 compositie with reading</p>
<p>AP: 5 AP classes</p>
<p>IB: 8 IB classes</p>
<p>Honors: 11 honors classes</p>
<p>Captain of the Academic Team for 3 years
Captain of the soccer team for 2 years, played all 4
Volunteered at Habitat for Humanity for 3 years
Volunteer with Boy Scouts of America
In Boy Scouts of America
Captain of the Golf Team for 2 years
IB Community Action Club for 4 years
Finance Club for 3 years
Student Government for 3 years
Model United Nations 4 years
School Newspaper 2 years
National Honor Society
Have played Violin for 6 years
Have played guitar for 5 years
Have played clarinet for 7 years
Leas vocalist for talent showing winning band for past 2 years
Started my own Youtube channel that has generated ad revenue and have a partnership with Machinima
Photoshop work for the past 5 years</p>
<p>Have three excellent recommendations from teachers and my counselor. Also wrote college essay that got featured in my local paper, for student of the month. </p>
<p>Thanks guys, and will chance back if you would like.</p>
<p>Sorry guys, but I need to bump.</p>
<p>Just trying to get one answer here.</p>
<p>I’m no expert on all of these schools, but I feel bad since it took a long time for people to finally answer me, so I know how you feel.</p>
<p>All I know is that you should be fine for Syracuse, Penn State, and Florida too. I’m not sure about the others.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. Can anyone comment on UMD, that is my top choice.</p>
<p>First off you have a chance for all these college some are a slim hancr how ever…I would say that your GPA which is the main factor in most college decisions is slacking a bit…UMD may be a little bit of a stretch and UNC is going to be a big stretch for the data given…UF will have a better chance for you since they accept a lot of put of state student and you show excellent and an abundance of ECs sat scores are decent as well</p>
<p>I would say you’re a low match at UMD. I’m not positive but I think your GPA is slightly low for the average accepted UMD applicant. On a side note, I would submit your SAT scores (opposed to your ACT scores).</p>
<p>Your GPA is low for both UMD and Penn State (the averages are around a 3.5 I believe) they are both low reaches.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses guy, and yes I know that my GPA is very low, but I was hoping my EC’s would make up for that. With respect to UMD, since I am in state would that help my chances for admission and possibly make it a match for me?</p>
<p>Penn State flat out says they don’t care much about ECs so it won’t help (they have this weird 1/3 2/3 admissions things where 1/3 of the decisions is ECs, test scores and some other random stuff all grouped together and the 2/3 is basically your GPA). As for UMD I am not as familiar with in-state, but they are becoming increasingly competitive in general, at best it is a high match. ECs tend to compensate more at little LACs then large public universities.</p>
<p>Okay, thank you for all the info. I’m actually not all too familiar with terminology used on here, so a high match would be a good thing, correct? I know it is by no means a safety school, I was just hoping to take advantage of a good school, and pay a low tuition, since I’m in state.</p>
<p>Not really, a high match means it is between a match and a reach (so not so great of a chance). Here are the terms we use in order of most likely to get in to extremely unlikely…
Safety
Low Match
Match
High Match (know that high match and low reach are usually interchangeable)
Low Reach
Reach
High Reach</p>
<p>did you end up getting into umd?</p>