<p>hello, i plan on applyting to tulane SCEA and i hav been keeping in touch with my admission counselor, i also hav visited the campus. i go to a irritatingly competitive school and hav managed to take as many honors/AP classes as i could hold. however in junior year i bogged down in fear of ruining my gpa and only took AP HIstory (4) and AP Language (4), i also took Pre-AP (honors) physics (AP physics was not offered in junior year) and sadly got a 79 in both semesters. i could have dropped it after the first semester however, hard class for me yet i learned alot of lessons (work ethic) so i stuck with the challenge only to make another 79 in it again... i took SAts and got 1910 (retaking in oct. ihav a good amount of EC's and i was also student of the year for AP llanguage (clearly english is my thing) im in top 25% of class</p>
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<p>Please plaese pleasee</p>
<p>bump bump bump bump</p>
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<p>Your SATs put in the middle 50% of Tulane’s students. Applying EA is a bump, so I think you should get in.</p>
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<p>anyone else?</p>
<p>Since you are going to apply anyway, what does someone on here chancing you accomplish? But since I am here, I can tell you that you don’t give enough info. UW GPA? AP courses this coming year? EC’s? SAT scores alone don’t get you in or keep you out of a school (well, if they are low enough they can keep you out).</p>
<p>well i just wanted to get an idea of my chances of admission. I plan to apply SCEA however it is not set in stone. My unweighted is around 3.2-3.3. the courses im taking this year are
Ap Macroeconomics/Gov’t
AP calculus AB
AP Literature
Ap Psychology
Ap Biology
Scientific Research
Health (required)
EC- NHS, Choir 5 years, Health Occupations Students of AMerica - 2nd place regionals, 6th place State, 1st place in school. Science fair, 2nd place school, 3rd place district, 200+ hours at hospital+elderly home, Student of the year-english, helped start newspaper= editor of school magazine/newspaper, youth leader at temple, tutoring job for elementary kids for one summer</p>
<p>bump bump anyone??</p>
<p>no one? bump bump</p>
<p>I would guess that your chances at Tulane are 50-50, your GPA puts you on the edge. Applying SCEA will help a little.</p>
<p>so many AP’s are great, but at the cost of ur gpa their not. That 3.2/3.3 gpa is gonna kill u everywhere you apply.</p>
<p>delmonico - actually, the fact of the matter is the AP’s are hardly affecting his GPA yet, he is only just now taking most of them. That is actually what is going to “kill him”.</p>
<p>No, not really. The poor gpa is due to freshman year. After that i’ve worked hard to bring it up. and i’ve had good experiences with all of my AP classes that i’ve taken previously, what makes you say this is what will kill me now?</p>
<p>My school also goes by weighted, and that is how w’ere ranked too.my admissions officer clearly stated to me that they do not weigh gpa as much as its method differs greatly among other students. rank plays a huge effect. lol in essence i didnt need to start this thread.
but anyway, thanks you guys!!!</p>
<p>Well, if you have a low GPA and not many AP classes, that looks bad to the universities. It is, of course, more “understandable” to get a B+ in an AP class than in a regular class if you are trying to say you can compete with top students. However, some schools discount freshman year from what I have heard. I think the UC schools fall into this category, but I am not sure. Tulane definitely counts it, but like all schools if they see marked improvement from that it helps you, or at least hurts you a lot less.</p>
<p>Most high schools use weighted GPA’s to assess class rank, that isn’t the issue per se. It is how well you did grade wise balanced agianst how challenging your schedule was. The reason colleges use UW is because high schools often use different grading systems, so bringing it back to a 4.0 system and then looking at strength of schedule levels the field. If all high schools used the same system, for example adding 1 point for AP courses, them colleges would use that because it would reflect GPA and strength of schedule in one number, consistently.</p>
<p>anyway u guys, ignore this thread, i called my admissions officer and im good now . thanks !!!</p>
<p>delmonico – that’s not entirely true, I got into some great colleges with a 3.2. A lot of it also depends on your ECs and ability to write good essays. (S)he is not dead yet.</p>
<p>I’d say give it a shot; you’ve been keeping in touch and visited a few times, and you’ve got a decent GPA for an irritatingly competitive school, and applying EA will only help you.</p>
<p>@ the poster: the fact that ur ppor gpa is due to freshman year is not something to leave out. if honestly freshman year is what brings it down- than thats a good thing. Frhman year tends to count far less than junior and even sohp/senior year. So if u got bad gpa in freshman year, and then moved up and up, that changes things-in ur favor. </p>
<p>@ the guy who commented on my comment- yes and no. i was reffering to the 3 APs he said he took, and that pre-AP in which he got two 79’s, in particular. But ya, 100%, 6 Ap’ s or whatever th enumber, in senior year, with an already very low gpa will do no good (at best). I would sugest he stick with like 3 that are his best and which wuld be most manageable.</p>