Chances for WPI, UMass Amherst?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So I had a low gpa all three years leading up to this year because of slacking off and also because of family issues (death in the family). It's a 2.7. This year I started off with a 3.83 with decently hard classes (2 AP's, honors calc, english, etc). scored 2110 on the SAT 690 math, 720 cr, 700 wr, kinda bombed SAT 2 math 1, may or may not send (660). </p>

<p>3 years varsity cross country, 4 years of indoor/outdoor track, 3 years varsity in each.
100+ hours of community service
president of chess club and a few other minor ec's like a non-elected role in student gov't</p>

<p>Applying for engineering physics at wpi, mech eng at umass</p>

<p>Chances por favor?</p>

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<p>WPI: High match (upward trend prevents it from being a reach)
UMass: Match/low match (depends on how much an upward trend helps)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply! Yeah i’m not sure how much this year will help but I’m shooting for 4.0+ for the second term…</p>

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<p>Umass ~ match.
WPI ~ High match/match.
Your SAT is really good for both but your GPA will hold you down a bit but an upward trend is helpful, if you get your GPA up a bit more WPI will definently be a match.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>do you think it’d be a good idea to go in as an undeclared engineering major? or maybe a smaller program like architectural engineering (which i am rather interested in)? the arch. engineering program had like 10 grads last year haha.</p>

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<p>fair enough. besides the last two years they’ve been mediocre and i may apply undecided or take your advice and go economics or system dynamics or another vague, soft route. And thanks for the reply</p>