<p>Hey Everyone, I'm a senior in high school who lives in Northern Virginia and wants to go to UMCP. My unweighted GPA is about a 3.1 and my weighted GPA is like a 3.73, which I know is terrible. Last year I am taking AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP CS, and AP USH, Honors English, Physics, (there's no honors), and Band.
This year I am planning on taking Business Management / Sociology (semester classes), AP Stats, AP Econ, AP Comparative Gov, AP Lit, AP Physics, Concert Band, Jazz Band
My first SAT is a 1950(1380 Math + CR) but that was my sophomore year and I know I'll do much better this year. I'm expecting it to go up the next time I take it.
My EC's are, and I'm gonna include my senior year as well:</p>
<p>4 Years of Band/Jazz Band
3 Years of Marching Band with 1 Year of leadership role(next year)
Band Historian for 1 Year
4 years of It's Academic/Quiz Bowl ( Captain for three years)
4 years of Young Democrats (President for 2 Years)</p>
<p>Can someone chance me on getting in if I apply for the priority deadline.</p>
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<li><p>If your school reports your weighted GPA on transcript as your GPA, and you have above a 3.7 along with your SAT score, you will automatically be admitted to Kelley. </p></li>
<li><p>If you end up with your unweighted GPA being the one that counts, or your weighted GPA is below a 3.7, you will have to petition. </p></li>
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<p>The problem with appeals is that nobody really knows how they value SAT scores vs. GPA. It seems to be though they value someone who far exceeds the score requirement and falls short of the GPA over someone with the GPA, but doesn’t meet the SAT requirement. I’d say you can definitely get in with a petition if you write a good essay and apply early. </p>
<p>If you say in your essay that you want to go to UMCP, that will probably hurt your chances though!</p>
<p>It says that with a 3.8 and a 1350 SAT you get 11,000 a year, is there any chance that if I appealed I would be awarded that scholarship. Because that scholarship + financial aid would make it a much more reasonable price that would definitely make it a college I could go to</p>
<p>Be aware right from the start that it is very difficult for OOS incoming freshmen to get much scholarship money to reduce the huge OOS tuition! My daughter is an incoming freshman from Ohio: weighted GPA of 4.6, ACT score of 34, National Merit Finalist, and many, many extra curriculars and leadership positions. She was awarded the automatic scholarship of $9K (it goes up for 2013 incoming fresh.), $1K Hutton Honors, and $1K for being a NMF naming IU as her first choice. So $11K total really doesn’t make a big dent in the costs! We tried to find out about other awards, and were simply told…they don’t exist for OOS incoming freshman. So…if you are OOS, NOT a minority, and NOT dirt poor, accept the fact that IU is expensive, or take it off your list. Unfortunately it is the harsh reality!</p>
<p>IU’s scholarship strategy is to attract good OOS students whose IS colleges offer little scholarship or offer no direct admit into certain programs. The $11K brings the gap of COA (OOS vs. IS) to a level that IU can be seriously considered by these OOS students.</p>
<p>Yeah, for a student from Illinois who gets the 11,000/year scholarship from IU, the tuition is only about 4,000 more to go OOS to Indiana that stay in Illinois. Other small scholarships (Hutton, Kelley, etc…) can close the gap even further. </p>
<p>There were more students at Kelley direct admit weekend this year from Illinois than Indiana.</p>
<p>You cannot appeal the automatic scholarships. You may have read about appealing Kelley admission, Hutton Honors admission, or something else. The “rules” for the automatic scholarships have been pretty firm for at least four years.</p>
<p>I also feel I need to reply regarding the automatic scholarships not making a dent in OOS tuition. Considering the $11,000 would reduce the price by 25% I think that is pretty significant. I know of few public (or private for that matter) universities that automatically make that offer. </p>
<p>I know OOS tuition is high, but that is a choice one makes in choosing a college.</p>
<p>That’s probably a question only you and your family can answer. For my daughter, it is. When it was all said and done, she decided on IU first and foremost for the Kelley school of Business. A very close second reason was that she just “felt” right about the campus. She felt better there than at any of the other campuses that she visited. Even though she could have had “full rides” at several other schools, we all decided together as a family that IU is the place for her.</p>
<p>With your daughters scores, she should have been a Kelley Scholar applicant/recipient and gotten basically a free ride (if she was going to study business). That is a 4yr renewable which covers full tuition and a “generous” amount for housing. Plus, some for study abroad.</p>
<p>Only one OOS Kelley scholar each year so even with incredible stats it is very hard to get. Son had 34 ACT, 4.35 GPA, good ECs and he did not even receive any Hutton Scholarship, only the automatic $9000 award, which shows how hard it is to get scholarship money. Will still attend because he loves IU and Kelley, and only a couple thousand more then instate UIUC.</p>
<p>Mauicougar:
Exactly what adamom says - only one OOS student is named a Kelly Scholar. Daughter did apply, as well as for other selective scholarships, but was not selected. IU does not need to recruit high achieving students from out of state, so it is extremely difficult to get merit based aid. We are thankful for the $11K total that we did get from IU, plus the external scholarships that she was awarded locally. Taking it a semester at a time, but we’ll make it work!</p>