<p>Okay, I know it's EXTREMELY hard to get accepted, but I was wondering if anyone could give a shot at my chances.</p>
<p>Alright, academically, no, I would have no chance, but I have very strong non-academic credentials that I feel could set me apart.</p>
<p>My GPA is about 3.5 and my SATs are iffy.</p>
<p>This is what it will look like come Senior year (Im a junior)</p>
<p>-2 years school Newspaper
-2 years writing for an NFL (National Football League) scouting agency. The top one of the country. Working for this company is like working for the Harvard of scouting companies and I'm only 17.
-2 years writing for the NFL draft preview magazine for a MAJOR sports magazine (I can't disclose who do to contract obligations)
-1 year for an independent draft website
-Several national radio appearences so-far (ESPN Radio national appearence, ESPN radio in Baltimore, and other various stations in Reno, St. Louis, Richmond etc...
-1 TV appearence on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN); I will also be doing more.
-My letters of recommendation will most likely be from higher-ups within ESPN, several famous radio anchors, the boss of my company and more</p>
<p>I don't know if any of you know who Mel Kiper is, but I've basically been dubbed the next him.</p>
<p>What do you all think of my chances?</p>
<p>Sorry to be pushy, but anyone?</p>
<p>Like, I'm not trying to brag or be cocky or anything, but.... I'm pretty big ***** amongst the field of NFL scouting.</p>
<p>Everyone always talks about how alot of times schools will take the "Unique" student over the super academics kid. I think I could be that case. </p>
<p>Besides all of this, I also do alot of work with tourette syndrome (Which I have)</p>
<p>It would help if you said how iffy your SATs are. I would imagine that you could definitely get into Mizzou with no trouble, although I don't know enough about you to say whether you could be directly admitted to it. You can still advance to upper-class status if you are just admitted to the university provided that you do well in your first two years, and you'd probably have a pretty good shot at it with those kinds of credentials.</p>
<p>These are the requirements for direct freshman admission to the journalism school (taken from <a href="http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/admissions.html#differences):%5B/url%5D">http://journalism.missouri.edu/undergraduate/admissions.html#differences):</a></p>
<p>Directly Admitted Students. A freshman applicant will be directly admitted to the School of Journalism if he or she meets standard MU admissions requirements and any one of the following three criteria:</p>
<pre><code>* Ranks in the top 10 percent of his or her high school class.
* Scores 29 or higher on the ACT Composite.
* Scores 1280 or higher on the math-verbal portions of the SAT.
</code></pre>
<p>The University of Missouri-Columbia does not use the relatively new SAT or ACT essay examinations in its admissions process.</p>
<p>Well, iffy is around 1600-1700 on the new scale.</p>
<p>I probably won't get in directly because my SAT scores will be low.</p>
<p>About a 520 on math and around a 550 on verbal</p>