<p>I applied to these universities. I will be getting results in a few months and would like to know what people think beforehand.
University of Michigan
Wisconsin Madison
UC's: B, SD, SC, D
Stony Brook
Binghamton
University of Maryland, College Park
Ohio State
Umass Amherst
University of Washington
Purdue</p>
<p>And one private: Northeastern</p>
<p>I won't post too much information about myself but here goes:</p>
<p>SAT 1: 690R 770M 650W
SAT 2: 770M</p>
<p>GPA:
3.087 UW
3.36 W</p>
<p>I'm applying with the intention of majoring in mathematics. I don't have particular extracurriculars besides personal large projects in programming and math. I wrote about those in my essays.</p>
<p>Thanks </p>
<p>Oh I forgot to add that I’m in a Middle College program, meaning that half of my classes during Junior and Senior years were community college classes. This semester, as a Senior, I will be finishing all the highest math courses offered at the community college. That is, three classes of calculus, one of linear algebra, and one of differential equations. That counts as rigor I suppose</p>
<p>Well your GPA is a little on the low side for most of those schools, especially UMich. Your test scores are decent though and can prove advantageous. Not having any significant ECs will definitely hurt your chances though. If you truly emphasized your commitment to your “personal projects” then you might have a shot with some of those schools. </p>
<p>My thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1610985-chances-for-vanderbilt-unc-nyu-uf-and-duke.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1610985-chances-for-vanderbilt-unc-nyu-uf-and-duke.html#latest</a></p>
<p>I’ll speak to the schools that I am familiar with:</p>
<p>University of Michigan: Mid-High Reach, UMichigan ranks Academic GPA as the most important component of the application; their average unweighted GPA is a 3.8
Wisconsin Madison: High Reach - again, UWMadison ranks Academic GPA as the most important component of the application; their average unweighted GPA is a 3.8
Stony Brook - Mid-Low Reach, average GPA is a 3.65
Umass Amherst - Are you in-state? It’s much easier if you’re a MA student - but OOS, probably a low to mid reach; Amherst is the flagship and it has an average GPA of a 3.6 – but your SAT scores are far above the average
Northeastern - High reach - I know kids with GPAs of a 3.7+ and 2100+ SAT that got rejected - they’re becoming increasingly selective and your GPA falls far below the 25th percentile. </p>
<p>Thank you very much. I am from California. I know my gpa is low, but I’m really hoping a good SAT makes up for it. Anyone else would like to comment?</p>
<p>Can anybody else please comment?</p>
<p>I will comment on the UC’s. The UC’s really emphasize GPA so I would say reach for all except UCSC. I would say High Match/Low Reach because of your SAT score.</p>
<p>At best, you’re a high match to any of these schools, as your GPA is a bit low. </p>
<p>For example, at the University of Washington the High School GPA (Middle 50%) for incoming Freshmen (Autumn 2012) was in the range of 3.64-3.93. At Purdue the Middle 50% (2013) high school GPA range was 3.5-4.0.</p>
<p>You have a decent change at a few (such as U Washington and Purdue), but you didn’t have any safeties on your list. However, worse case, going to a CC (in California) for a year (with all of your college credit, I’m sure that’s all you would need to do) and then transferring to University is a pretty good back-up plan. :-bd </p>
<p>Good Luck! </p>