<p>Hello, I was wondering what do you think my chances are for getting into IU. I want to possibly major in special education. </p>
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<li>GPA: 2.81/4.00 (unweighed), 3.87/5.00 (weighted)</li>
<li>ACT: 24 (possibly taking it again in October)</li>
<li>Senior Courses
AP Environmental Science (2 class periods everyday)
AP Psychology
Discrete Math
Reading Writing & Producing Media
Peer Mentoring</li>
<li>Public High School in the North Shore area of Chicago, Illinois</li>
<li>Extra Curriculars include:
4 years Varsity Hockey (captain)
3 years of DECA
3 years of CEC (Council for Exceptional Children- club for helping students with mental disabilities and planning activities to do with them)
2 years of student government
2 years of Junior Achievement
3 year of Lacrosse (2 varsity, 1 JV)
Worked as a caddy at a Country Club for 6 years
10-15 hours of community service at local food pantry
Over 100 hours of work/volunteer services outside of school with multiple students with mental disabilities ranging from Autism, Down Syndrome, and Fragile X</li>
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<p>I love working with children with disabilities and it is a passion of mine</p>
<p>-Father is a Kelley School of Business alum for Master's program, I'm not need based, and family donates annually.</p>
<p>I’m afraid OHKID is sadly mistaken. He/she is looking at your unweighted GPA and thinking it is based upon 3.87/4.00, not 3.87/5.00 as you posted.</p>
<p>In reality, your odds are not so good. You are below a 3.00 GPA unweighted and your ACT is below the school average by two to three points or so.</p>
<p>The things in your favor are your leadership extracurriculars, your family connection with the school (mainly the contribution, not the fact that your family previously attended, which will not even be considered), your unusual choice for a major, and the fact that you are taking tough senior courses. I give you only a 35% to 40% chance, although you may possibly be put on the waiting list and then admitted from the wait list if your senior grades improve. </p>
<p>Personally, I think you should try to improve your grades by doing well during your senior year (first semester) and then applying only after those grades have come out. Also, I’d see if you can improve your ACT to 26 or so (nearer to the class average of admitees). Both of these things would vastly improve your chances for admission.</p>
<p>Your weighted gpa is 3.096 on the four-point scale, so make sure that your counselor converts your gpa to the four-point scale on your counselor’s form. 3.1 is not terribly low for IU. Combined with your other strong points which Calcruzer mentioned, I think you have a better than fifty-fifty chance of getting accepted, as long as you are in the top half of your class. And definitely indicate on your application that you want to major in special education (you can always change your major after you get to IU, if you want). I would apply as soon as possible (with your stats, you should have applied in early August) as the ACT isn’t offered until October 24 and they say it takes three to eight weeks to mail out the results. By then, you will be one of many, many, applicants and it will be tougher to get in with your numbers. You 24 ACT is probably equal to about 20% the Fall 2009 class.</p>
<p>I’m not so sure IU cares what your school’s point-system is - my GPA was submitted last fall as a 4.01/5.1 and they didn’t seem to mind. That 4.01 was the GPA they used for my Distinction scholarship and for Hutton as well.</p>
<p>In my application I also included a personal statement including my work with special needs students and one in particular who I have known since I was 8 years old and how he has benefitted from it and how I have grown and personally benefitted from the experience and what he has taught me</p>
<p>Hello. i was wondering if you could tell me if i had a chance of getting into IU. I really want to be an Italian major/japanese minor and be an Italian/japanese teacher. Im also interested in taking Dutch, german and Russian if my scheduale permits.</p>
<p>My GPA: 3.68/4.0
SATs scores: 1540/2400
Senior courses:
Ap Bio
Calculus
IB italian
Project Advance English (Syracuse university english course in my highschool)
Japanese
Italian Language and Culture
Psychology</p>
<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
-Girl scouts (2 years) (i do a lot of community service in Girl scouts)
-Italian club (3 years)
-Asian club (1 year, but it has only been at my school for 1 year)
-Tutoring 2 people (one in italian, the other in Biology)
-Jui Jitsu (since 7th grade)
-Volenteered at an Animal Hospice/rehabilitation center for 2 years but it moved upstate and is too far to volenteer</p>
<p>Other:
Im not a minority, but i did live in Belgium for 6 years. I know dutch-- ‘‘flemish’’ (although my fluency in speaking has slowly deteriorated, i can still read and understand it)im vegan and very passionate about animals, Foreign languages and other cultures.</p>
<p>kekker–If the 1540/2400 is correct and assuming each section is roughly equal (IU only looks at Math and CR) I would say you are also a borderline candidate. The GPA and tougher course load will help, but the SAT scores will hurt. Do you happen to be ranked in the top 10 or 25% of your class? That will help.</p>
<p>You have your weighted gpa listed as 3.87/5.00, or 3.87 on a five-point scale. So . . . </p>
<p>3.87/5.00 = 3.096/4.000</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the math is right. 3.096 on a four-point scale is considerably higher than your unweighted gpa of 2.71/4.00. </p>
<p>So you and your counselor should convert your weighted gpa to the 4.0 scale and report only that score on the counselor’s form. That will save IU the trouble of converting it to a four-point scale, which is what they will do anyway if you don’t convert it yourselves. I think it is better for you and the counselor to report the weighted scale on the four-point scale, in case IU makes an error converting it. Although if you reported as 3.87/5.00, they would probably convert it correctly and also get 3.096/4.000. You shouldn’t report the 2.81/4.00, as IU specifically requests your highest gpa on the counselor’s form.</p>
<p>IU also allows your hs counselor to send a letter of recommendation with the counselor’s form, which could probably also help your chances.</p>
<p>uh. im not sure how the gpa works so… i have a 97 overall average so far. Does that help? as for the SAt… i did bad–i know. So, i’m taking the ACT in october.</p>
<p>I suggest you start a new thread rather than “hijacking” the one started by msr123.</p>
<p>It is considered “bad form” to “hijack” someone else’s thread on collegeconfidential.</p>
<p>(I presume you probably aren’t aware of the unwritten rules of procedure on here–so don’t sweat it–just go create your own thread and we’ll all reply to you there).</p>