I am a female Indian-American and I live in Maryland. I really REALLY want to go to college park, but my GPA kinda sucks. I am only a junior and I’m taking my SAT in June so I’ll give you my PSAT score.
GPA: 3.3 cumulative uw/3.7 w
I want to major in journalism, and I’ve toured the journalism school :x
I’ve been in the journalism programme at my school for 3 years and planning on a fourth, and i’m the co editor in chief, features editor as well as photography editor
I’ve had front page articles twice now in our newspaper and photographs
I’m interning at the National Aquarium this summer
My PSAT score was 1210 out of 1520 but i didn’t really study and I’ve been preparing since
I got a 3 on my AP gov exam last year which is qualifying for credit at college park
I also like UMBC, Stonybrook, and Salisbury
I’m taking AP English 11 and AP bio this year, and next year I’m taking AP stats and AP enviro
I’m in our Girls in STEM club, class council and the TV programme as well as our National Science Honours society
I founded the Quill and Scroll Honours society at our school which is an honours society for journalism students
I won best biology project in our county during the science fair
I lived in China for 2 months
I’m hoping all this stuff cancels out my awful gpa 
THANK YOU TO ANYONE WHO RESPONDS!!
you still have until senior year to bring up your gpa. that’ll really hurt you if you’re looking to get into college park, especially since they put a lot of weight on that. i think you have a good chance at salisbury and umbc though and idk enough about stony brook to say.
I think you have a decent chance. Your GPA is a worrying factor but I hope you do really well on the SAT. You might want to get that GPA up by just a little. Just make sure you have strong ECs, essay and recs. It could go either way. But I do hope they look past your GPA! Good luck!
I think that you will have a chance at College Park if you can bring your GPA up and score well on your SAT. Continue to pursue meaningful ECs. I think that your best chance right now is UMBC. I’m not too familiar with Salisbury or Stony Brook.
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Your GPA could use a small boost, and the SAT could as well. Have you tried the ACT?
Overall, if you can pull a 1300+ SAT and increase your weighted GPA to 3.8ish, you should be good; even if not, you have a small chance still.