Chance Me Please! Low GPA, Good EC

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My GPA isn't very strong, but I have decent SATs, and what might be considered good EC.</p>

<p>School Type: Private, Religious
Rank: N/A
Very competitive school
Caucasian</p>

<p>Academic:
School is dual curriculum - religious and secular studies. I have ten hour school days.
GPA: 89
SAT I: (took once)
CR: 750
M: 720
WR: 690</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
US Hist: 730
Lit: 630 (Not great. I know)
Math IIC: Waiting on results. Probably 700+. Not 800.</p>

<p>APs: Took three last year, first year in my school i am allowed to take them
USH: 5
Statistics: 5
AP Language: 5</p>

<p>Course Load (secular only)
Freshman Year: (All Honors)
Geometry
Ancient History
Computer Science
English Lit
Biology
Foreign Language</p>

<p>Sophomore: (All Honors/high honors)
Algebra II/Trig
US Hist I
English Lit
Chemistry
Foreign Language</p>

<p>Junior: (All honors/high honors
Trig/Pre-Calc/Calc I
AP US History
AP English Lang & Comp
AP Statistics
Physics
Foreign Language</p>

<p>Senior Year: (All honors, high honors)
AP Calculus BC
AP English Lit
AP Euro History
AP Macroeconomics
Foreign Language</p>

<p>7 APs total.</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
3x placer at a national wrestling invitational - 3rd, 2nd, 1st place.
Layout Editor of school print newspaper
Founder, Editor-in-Chief, Webmaster, school online publication
Youth Group leader (sort of like a group babysitting service)
Owner of web design business with a friend, specializing in design, consulting, and marketing (including building the actual site, of course)
Wrestling Coach, 5-8th graders (in the Spring) (2 years)
Wrestling Co-Captain
Computer Repair Business on the side
I also play guitar, skateboard.</p>

<p>Let's assume the essay will be good.</p>

<p>Colleges - Semi-random assortment of colleges/universities:</p>

<p>Penn
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Rutgers
Brandeis
Boston U
Northwestern
U of Maryland
UCLA
Stanford</p>

<p>Please chance me, I'll try to return the favor.</p>

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<p>dude your 89 gpa is crazy what are you talking about. mines only 3</p>

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<p>I think you know what I meant. My school doesn’t do GPA on a 4 or 5 point scale, just average. So 89/100 average.</p>

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<p>An 89 GPA roughly translates to a 3.4, which is respectable for most competitive private schools. Your SATs are good and your ECs are impressive.
I’d say you’re in good shape for all the schools you listed with the exception of Stanford, Penny, and Princeton. Ivy leagues are never a sure thing, and Stanford is affectionately known as the Harvard of the West by my counselors, so you might run into some trouble there.
All in all, I’d say they’re all matches, with the exception of the three previously listed, which I would say are reaches.</p>

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<p>Well i know you have like an 100% at UMD</p>

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<p>Ah thanks.</p>

<p>I’m going to apply ED to Penn, if I can finish the application in time, and regular to the rest. I’m pretty confident now on most of them…exception on those three, of course.</p>

<p>Edit: I am interested in business, but I plan on applying A&S to Penn instead of Wharton, because Wharton is just that much harder to get into (maybe I can transfer later). Should I reconsider and try Wharton, or stick with my current plan?</p>

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<p>You can’t translate cumulative to GPA. I had a cumulative of 92 but my real GPA was 2.9</p>

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<p>Numbers mean totally different things at different schools. An 89 could be val at one school and barely top 30% at another. It’s all about rank, your classmates are your first line of competition.</p>

<p>Most of these schools will want you to be at minimum in the top 10% of your class. The ivies will expect you to be at the very top unless your school is very competitive (average SAT over 2000)</p>

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<p>Ur EC’s and SAT scores are good. However, ur gpa and classes are weak. GL</p>

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<p>There is nothing weak about his courseload. His SAT scores are solid; an 89, though not, outstanding, is also respectable enough. I’d say no to some of those super-reach schools listed there, but a yes to BU, UofM, NU. If you are in-state also yes to UCLA.</p>

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<p>what do you think you would major in?</p>