<p>I'm a junior so my list is kind of long I plan on narrowing it down :)</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.42 (3.0 9th grade, 3.6 10th and 3.6 11th with IB, significant upward trend. I was just lazy in 9th)
SAT I: 2230 First time (Taking it again in May)
SAT II: Only taken Math II so far: 750 (take it again+one more in May)</p>
<p>Full IB Diploma
Income Bracket-Highest
Grew up in America so US citizen, lived in 4 countries though. I'll be graduating from an international school</p>
<p>EC's:
Varsity Basketball all 3 years (Captain and MVP)
Varsity Soccer all 3 years (Captain)
Varsity Tennis all 3 years
Model UN (3 local and 3 international conferences, held special positions in 2 of them)
Head of Peer Tutoring
Started 2 companies: I'll talk a lot about this in my app
Theater (Stage Manager one year, Main character in a play another year) </p>
<p>Volunteer:
STARTED MY OWN PROGRAM: Teaching basketball to underprivileged and mentally impaired kids (I'll talk a lot about this as well)
Habitat for Humanity
Over 100 Hours</p>
<p>Awards: Nothing big, some subject awards. Math athlete of the year in 9th and 10th grade</p>
<p>Schools:
Syracuse
Penn State
BU
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Northeastern
Purdue
ALL UC'S except Irvine, Merced and Riverside
Boston College
USC
Stanford (yolo)</p>
<p>Will my GPA kill me?
If you read this far, I appreciate you taking the time :)
Chance please!</p>
<p>I also interned one summer 
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<p>I think you have a solid chance at all since you are well rounded and are an athlete.
The first five-in
Purdue-probably
UCs(except Berkeley)-probably in
BC, Stanford, USC-reaches but definitely possible especially since your gpa is improving and you’re well rounded</p>
<p>Good chance at all except…
Stanford- no
Ucla- reach
Uc Berkeley-no
Usc-reach
Bc-reach</p>
<p>thanks for the chance
if it makes any difference i think my UC gpa is like 3.8 or 3.9</p>
<p>you’re right, we kinda are in the same boat haha
I dont know alot about BU or Penn State, I usually stay center on the UC’s.
But yeah, just like you said, nail those SATs and essays and you have a good shot at UCB or UCLA.
And for sure apply to Stanford, theres no reason not to haha
Like the screen name, by the way.</p>
<p>It’s a reasonable list other than Stanford, which probably isn’t worth the effort their app takes given competition for the seats among Bay Area kids.</p>
<p>Haha, I love the YOLO you stuck next to stanford!</p>
<p>haha im in the same situation as you man, low gpa with high college expectations! I think we can prove em wrong and get into these schools, don’t you? I’m interested in a lot of the same ones as you.</p>
<p>He, I’m not too fond of my GPA either :[ But hopefully colleges will look past that. But you have nice scores and ECs, and your two companies will hopefully give you good essay topics. Chance me too?</p>
<p>Hahaha Stanford (YOLO). Nice man. Well, I seem to believe that Stanford is looking at something a bit more creative in terms of EC’s. I’m a junior myself, and I’m in the process of strengthening my SAT scores and my EC’s. I think you should allocate most of your time in activities that seem to stand out and show what you’re interested in the most. Ex: I want to become a general physician or surgeon, so I successfully acquired an internship. I spend most of my hours at the hospital shadowing a doctor, and I’ll eventually be able to do very basic things such as drawing blood as x amount of hours. All I can advise you to do is to find an activity you love doing and are really interested in, and hopefully you’ll have a shot at Stanford.</p>
<p>hahah thanks guys maverick, i sure as hell hope so man. good luck to you
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<p>what about the other schools on my list?</p>