<p>I'm a high school Junior just wondering what my chances would be to make it into Clemson, Illinois Urbana-Chanpaign, and Wisconsin-Madison.</p>
<p>Illinois Resident planning on applying for Mechanical Engineering
3.6 Unweighted GPA (I attend a highly ranked private Catholic school in Illinois where 93-100 is a 4, 85-92 is a 3.5 and so on. Would Clemson reconfigure my GPA to a more traditional scale?)
4.0 Weighted
My school does not provide class rank
29 ACT (will probably take two more times hoping for 30+)
Course Load by Graduation:
Honors in all classes honors in available(excluding only a few required religion courses, PE, and business courses) and 4 APs (Chemistry, Physics, Calculus, and US Gov)
Extra-Curriculars by Graduation:
4 years of football (2 varsity letters)
4 years of track (4 letters and hopefully team captain next year)
2 years Mu Alpha Theta(math club)
2 years national honor society
200+ hours community service</p>
<p>I try to stay away from the chances threads but wander here every once in a while. My son applied to both UIUC and UW, though a humanities, not engineering kid. As an Illinois resident, for UW, admissions decision could go either way, so a reach, not a match. Engineering, instate, at IUUC, also a reach if not high reach. Not familiar with Clemson, so no insight there. </p>
<p>Maybe take a look at U MN-Twin Cities and Iowa State – Iowa uses an automatic formula, so you can plug in your stats and see if you will be admitted. I believe engineering is at Iowa State rather than Univ Iowa (where my son also applied). I don’t know about Purdue, that might be a possibility, though others will know better than I do. </p>
<p>Actually, compared to some Catholic schools we know, your grading scale is quite generous. We are familiar with schools where an 85 is a B- (2.67). </p>
<p>Many publics say they take the higher of the unweighted and weighted GPA, though I cannot recall specifically about UW and UIUC – I have a feeling they use only unweighted.</p>