Chance me Harvard, Yale, Princeton? Low GPA, Insane Extracurriculars

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

Hey everyone I know my GPA isn’t the best, but wanted to give this a shot.

GPA: 3.7
ACT: 33
Breakdown: R-34 W-33 M:34 S:32

Extracurriculars:

  • Founder and President of Project Ethos Public Speaking club at my school (www.projectethos.net)
  • Founding logistics director of volunteering organization with 950+ volunteers reached and 50+ venues managed
  • President of school data analytics club
  • Creative director of city's art council

Honestly my strongest EC is probably Project Ethos cause it’s new and upcoming and the volunteering thing but I know my GPA is low. Essays are looking alright too.

2

No one has good odds at Harvard, Yale or Princeton.

Throw in a “low GPA” and bad odds go down.

“Alright” essays probably don’t help.

I looked-- albeit quickly-- at the link you provided. You brought a branch of an existing program to your school-- presumably with the help of a faculty moderator. How is that “insane”? How does it trump a kid who went to Nationals in Speech and Debate and won? From the little I saw, it looks like they give you a pre-packaged guidebook to starting the activity. Noteworthy, yes, but not earth shattering.

I hate to sound negative, but I’m guessing that you may want to include a bunch of safer schools.

3

Your EC’s are at best average for those schools. Your stats are on the low side. Those schools are reaches for most everyone. Very high reach for you.

4

Your ECs are actually very good. But it doesn’t matter if you’re GPA is so low. ECs cannot pull up a GPA unless you’re an entrepreneur or you last name is Obama

5

3.7 GPA? I’m not really familiar with how you calculate your gpa. Do you go with college board(93%+=4.00 GPA) or percent/20-1.