Im an African-American male student, upper middle class, both my parents are doctors, and I am a junior at an affulent public school in Maryland.
Unweighted: 3.47 (will be estimated final gpa)
Weighted: 4.25
SAT: 1360
I have taken all APs and Honors (As and mainly Bs) during high school however I went to a difficult private school in 10th grade and ended up with 3 C’s on my transcript. However, I transferred back to my public school and just got a with 3.71 for semester one and i am planning 4.00 semester 2
Junior year schedule: AP Bio, AP Lang, AP Calc AB, AP NSL, Spanish 5, and newspaper
EC’s
-Newspaper (section editor)
-Spanish Honors Society
-Rho Kappa Honors Society
-English Honors Society
-National Honors Society
-Black Student Union (president)
-Science Honors Society
-Miniority Scholars Program (leader and peer tutor)
-Key Club
-Played JV lacrosse
-Piano student
-Involved in youth ministry at my church (Retreat leader, Monday night mentor, work at community picnics, visit food shelters)
-Summer counselor at camp (since 7th grade)
What schools would you guys recommend? UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, Virgina Tech, Clemson, Penn State, Ohio State, George Washington? UMD College Park is my top choice though
At my school, 114/196 students were accepted to UMD last year with average uw: 3.6 weighted: 4.27 sat: 1351
*also, my sister currents attends UMD honors college, will this help my chances?
*will the heavy EC’s help balance out low unweighted gpa?