<p>I'm only a Sophmore, but I go to a pretty competitive high school. My Freshman year was awful. My accumalative was 3.0. My first quarter this year (Sophmore) was 3.47, and I'm getting a 3.43 as my second quarter. 3rd quarter I'm really going to get it up into the 3.7-3.8. My college choices are Loyola University of Chicago, Purdue, Indiana University-Bloomington and Penn State.</p>
<p>I know I'm only a sophomore, but do you think I would have a good chance at getting into any of these schools? Junior year I think my accum. would probably be around a 3.5-3.6 because I'm taking tougher classes than I normally do.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Your chances based upon what you posted:
Loyola University of Chicago--Safe Match
Purdue University (West Lafayette)--Safe Match to Match
Indiana University-Bloomington--Match
Penn State--Match to Slight Reach (need about a 3.56 overall GPA to get in here--and they are more particular about the GPA than the test scores).</p>
<p>Note that Purdue has the best engineering programs, Indiana has the best business, law and music programs, Penn State is probably the best for the medical sciences (biology, chemistry)--and unfortunately, I don't know much about Loyola.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>P.S. My son is in the business program (undecided between finance/business law) at Indiana right now--so I know that school really well if you have any questions about it.</p>
<p>Thanks so much.
And yeah, I figured Penn State would be tougher to get into.
Do you know if Indiana has a good Psychology program? That's what I really want to get into, or maybe business. I heard Indiana has a great business program.
How is the campus there? Is there a lot to do outside of it?</p>