Chance me, please?

[Raito23]

<p>Regular Decision
White Male
Public high school in Saint Louis, MO
Major: Political Science / History (possibly International Relations)
Superscored ACT: 35 (35E, 36R, 31M, 36S
GPA: 3.5 Unweighted, 3.8 Weighted (yeah...)
- Bad Sophmore year due to personal issues, shows upward trend (4.0s Junior year, 4.414 first semester Senior year)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
- 3 month summer internship at Organizing for America (20-30 hours a week)
- President of Gay-Straight Alliance
- Organizing Voter Registration drive & "Get out the Vote" campaign at my high school
- Member of National Honor Society
- Volunteer at church and day care
- A+ tutor (50 hours of peer tutoring by the end of the year)</p>

<p>Academic Honors:
- Special district recognition for 36 on science ACT (probably will get it for 36 on reading as well)
- "Glory of Missouri" award for Law</p>

<p>I visited the school and had an interview that I think went well. Do you think my GPA will destroy any chance I had at acceptance? I'm hoping my superscored ACT would be able to push me over the top.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

[mohojo]

<p>No, I don’t think your GPA will destroy your chances at all. Your 35 on the ACT is a clear demonstration of your academic capabilities. In addition, you also seem to be very well rounded and have many interesting extracurriculars.
Good luck! I hope you get in!</p>

[AsianGinger]

<p>Yeah, I got in with an unweighted 3.4 and weighted 3.7, so GPA is DEFINITELY not the absolute one deciding factor</p>

<p>in general, most schools actually weigh course load as more important than transcript (my dad works for admissions at notre dame and apparently most colleges fill out a form where they say which aspects of an application are most important, important, least important, etc. and a lot of top schools put course load as “most important” and transcript as just “very important”)</p>