<p>I'm a US ED applicant to Smith.
My cumulative gpa is not that good - low 3's..but i pulled it up a lot in my junior year and senior year. Smith also requires my senior year transcript so i will be able to show them my progress in senior year (gpa got better.. high 3's ).
However, my sat score sucks so I am not going to report any scores.
My EC list is great and letters of rec are great too..</p>
<p>chance me please</p>
<p>It’s a little hard to chance you if you don’t really give any specifics. I’m glad to hear your GPA improved your junior and senior years; that’s always a good sign. So does that mean you’re in a gap year now? If so, hopefully you’re using the time in a useful and interesting way and can include that information in your application. If you could give us some more details, we could respond.</p>
<p>in junior year, pulled it up to 3.6, and now i have above 3.8 </p>
<p>Still,
I only have about 3.2~3 for cumulative GPA… </p>
<p>im in my senior year in high school!</p>
<p>You’re in the “maybe” stack. Your GPA isn’t great. You’re not submitting scores as a compensating factor. There’s an extremely long line of students with great EC’s and letters of rec…some of them will get in. Apply, hope, and have some alternatives that you would be happy with.</p>
<p>I agree with TD. With the usual disclaimer that we are just people, and not admissions officers/counselors/gods, I would say you’re in a maybe category. </p>
<p>Some of it will depend on not just your grades, but also the level of rigor in your coursework/the competitive level of your high school. If you go to a very competitive school or you’re taking the most challenging course load available, that may help you. Having good ECs of course will help as well. But as TD says, a lot of people have good ECs and most have good letters of recc. The transcript is the first thing that they’ll look at when evaluating your application. It’s not the ONLY thing they’ll look at. Smith does a great job IMO of looking at the entire applicant, to get an idea of what they’re like behind the grades, but still they have to evaluate if you are going to academically thrive at Smith, which will be a step up in rigor and pace than your high school. </p>
<p>Definitely still apply, you should not feel discouraged! But make sure there are other schools that you would also relly like to attend and apply to them.</p>
<p>S&P, I dunno, there was a rumor that we were on the nomination list for demi-gods but don’t know when the results will be released. It’s like applications…can’t spend too much time worrying about it, gotta get on with life.</p>
<p>^ With 65% of the counties reporting in, the AP is calling this one in favor of “not demi-gods”. I just heard it on the news.</p>
<p>Well, dang. Let’s have a party to celebrate. Care for some tea?</p>
<p>Good thing I didn’t invest much time thinking about choice of my super demi-god power. The costume might have been pretty cool though.</p>
<p>And at least they had to wait until 65 percent of the vote was in…not like some of those with 3 percent of the vote, eh?</p>
<p>I have great ECs and great letters of rec as well, but my wieghted GPA is 4.1. Does that mean I’m moved out of the maybe stack? My SAT scores are pretty good, but not good enough to submit. 580 math, 590 reading, 630 writing.</p>
<p>Really, everyone is a maybe here, since we’re not the ones picking the acceptances. In order to give a good strengths/weaknesses we’d need to know a little bit more about your unweighted GPA, and probably your general profile. Feel free to start your own thread if you’re curious, but just remember that we’re not perfect at picking here and also “chance me” threads get a little tedious (I feel like we’ve done a lot of those this week!). I definitely agree though that it’s not worth submitting your SAT scores. Unless you think you’ll do better on your SAT subject tests.</p>