<p>GPA: 3.43 unweighted. Freshman year I finished with a 2.9. However, junior year I finished with a 3.92. I have taken several challenging classes.</p>
<p>SAT: 1830. </p>
<p>I have strong extracurriculars. </p>
<p>I'm out of state and plan on majoring in business. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>anyone…?</p>
<p>What is your weighted GPA? GPA plays like the biggest role in PSU admission.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t weight GPA. Strange, I know.</p>
<p>Did you take any AP/honor courses?
PSU - low match/match</p>
<p>yeah. I’ve taken honors history and english classes</p>
<p>bump bump bump</p>
<p>Depends on applicant pool for this coming year. If you don’t have a 3.5 GPA or higher at PSU, you need to have good test scores to balance. They say GPA = 2/3 of their decision. I’d put you at a match for the summer program and a high match for fall admission. Especially if you apply directly into Smeal.</p>
<p>What is a “high match”? I’m new to this site.</p>
<p>Safety = there should be no reason as to why you wouldn’t get into a school
Low Match = You should get in there, but there could be some weird reason as to why not. Probably 75-80% chance
Match = should be the bulk of schools you apply to, Schools you feel are on par with your academics and you fall within the middle 50% range. You’ve got a pretty good chance to get into these
High match = You’re stretching between whats likely and whats lucky. You probably fall in or near the bottom 25th percentile of the school and while You shouldn’t necessarily be surprised if you get in, you also shouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t.
Reach = A school where the chances are stacked against you, and its not really likely you’ll be accepted, albeit not impossible, usually because of the volume of applicants and space available.</p>
<p>I would say that you have a pretty decent shot of acceptance! Good luck! State College is a beautiful town!</p>
<p>Despite not having a 3.5, won’t the admissions office recognize the upward trend in my GPA? If it wasn’t for freshman year, I would probably have around a 3.7.</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>Upward trend is better than downward, and while freshman grades can sometimes be ‘weighted lower’ in importance, most schools still look at them because they did happen. There seems to be a stigma that upward trends are like a good thing in admissions, and I’m not sure how doing poorly one year and needing to recover can be viewed as really good.</p>
<p>I think you’ll get in for summer.</p>
<p>Can anyone give me thoughts for me for fall 2014?</p>
<p>-3.7 UW gpa, 3.8 w
<p>thank you</p>