<p>My senior year grades are all A's with one B (expository writing), I think i will end up with a B+ in the class for semester, its honors. I have a 1310 or (1300 one sitting) I also have good EC's and 2 good teacher recs and good counselor rec, they have my 1st quarter grades. What are my chances with all this said and done and an unweighted GPA around 3.1 not including senior year.</p>
<p>I am sorta in the same boat...</p>
<p>I go to an EXTREMELY competetive school with no class ranks; only a percentage system. I do not know where to apply because I really do not mind where I go. My parents want me to go to a name school however, and say I cannot justify going to an out-of-state school rather than an in-state school because of the price differences IF the school has no known name. Anyways, here we go:</p>
<p>GPA Interval Table (358 students)</p>
<p>4.25+ = 3.97%
4.00-4.24=6.15%
3.50-3.99=19.55%
3.00-3.49=25.98%</p>
<p>I fall into the fourth denomination with a 3.1 GPA/3 GPA UW.</p>
<p>My SAT scores were a 670 V, 720 M, and a 620 W. I took the Math SATII IIC and received a 740 and the US History SAT II and managed only a 590.</p>
<p>My ECs are:</p>
<p>Earth Science Team in 9th grade - helped the team place for the first time in school history.</p>
<p>My sport is mountain biking. I am including this because the application is supposed to let the college know who you are, and that is a large part of me. I mention it in my short answers as well.</p>
<p>I volunteered approximately 800 hours at my local library, 110 of those as a "reading buddy" (I read to little kids who had trouble reading, be it learning disabillities or inability to speak English well, etc.) and the rest as an attendant. My essay was based on my experiences with these children and my Grandfather who was a rolemodel for me in teaching the kids how to read.</p>
<p>I was a member of the Science Olympiad in my Sophomore year and I was a robotics team member.</p>
<p>I also did a lot of extracurricular activities involving engineering or statistics; I love computers and did a lot of software development (I helped the efforts in modifying some of the game consoles on the market), I have designed my own engines and transimissions for cars (Similar in respect to the StarRotar Engine, the Quasiturbine, and the CVT), and I am an avid Sabermatrician. Yes, I create baseball statistics. I am on the quest to create objective statistics to best evaluate a player's worth. I may not have done so well in school, however, I have acheived a great deal on my own. School is just not my type of environment. It is tedious, boring, and repetetive; none of it is applied, and the class around me lags behind my understanding. The teachers are not able to answer the many of my questions, and I continually spark debates among the math teachers in my school because they simply cannot come up with the answers, or confirm my explanations.</p>
<p>I worked as a cashier/porter at Kings for 4 or 5 months and I have done computer repair and math tutoring for the majority of my high school career.</p>
<p>Some other interesting notes: I have played the piano for 7 years and have copyrighted music. Additionally, I have a recommendation from a New York Post editor.</p>
<p>I am taking AP Statistics (A-) this year, took Electronics Honors (A) Junior year, Chemistry Honors (C+) and Algebra II Honors (C-) honors Sophomore year, and I doubled up in science freshman year.</p>
<p>My poor Sophomore year grades are due to the death of my grandmother. I was unable to keep that from spilling over to my already limited enthusiasm in doing work I did not want to do, so of course, I suffered in those classes which required the most amount of work.</p>
<p>I believe all of the following GPAs are weighted:</p>
<p>Freshman year GPA: 3.224
Sophomore year GPA: 2.449
Junior year GPA: 3.372
Senior year GPA (so far): Around 3.4</p>
<p>So do I have a chance at all?</p>
<p>UMD is an uncompetitive school and extremely easy to be admitted to if you have a above a 1250 on the SAT's and a 3.5.</p>
<p>That doesnt help me as I have a 3.1</p>
<p>Henrym288... what are you basing that on?</p>
<p>If you're right then I'm not too worried anymore!</p>
<p>Check out my post under number 7 in this thread. There is a url about kids who got accepted/rejected to Maryland with their SATs and GPAs.</p>
<p>Just so you know, we use a weighted system. Although an A=4, B=3 and so forth, honors and AP courses get one point added. Thus, in an honors or AP, an A=5, B=4 etc.
This will give you an idea of your chances.</p>
<p>"UMD is an uncompetitive school and extremely easy to be admitted to if you have a above a 1250 on the SAT's and a 3.5."</p>
<p>I disagree that UMD is uncompetitive. Last year they had over 22,000 applicants and admitted less than half. So right there is a bit of competition</p>
<p>Secondly..How would admitting students (and I am not saying they do) that have at least a 1250 and a 3.5 make them uncompetitive. Those are good stats......</p>
<p>Those are good stats. But would a 3.1 and a 1390 be good enough. Is 140 points on the SAT equivalent to .4 GPA?</p>
<p>140/1600 = .0875
.4/4 = .1</p>
<p>Almost, but not quite. Plus there is the whole unfulfilled potential and lazy look that kids like you and me have to shake. It was NOT that I was lazy. It was that I was bored in class and lost my enthusiasm! Spending 3 weeks on the quadratic equation in Junior year was hell since I have understood the applications and limitations of it since 8th grade!</p>
<p>Regardless, I am not longer so sure I am applying.</p>
<p>I dont think you can really look at this as a math problem as schools weight GPA or SAT more than the other, however this weighted grades is good news as my GPA jumps to above a 3.5....a little more hope now.</p>
<p>Why arent you sure you are applying Jimmyshi...I am not clear if you are concerned you would not be accepted and thus its a waste of time or if you think its too easy to get in?</p>
<p>As far as stats go..My D. had just an ok SAT but a stellar GPA and got in honors. So I think they do look at the whole picture.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if I should apply because I am not sure I would go if I were accepted, I do not think I have that great of a chance, and I have a huge list and need to pare it down some.</p>
<p>And yes, you can look at this in terms of probability, a branch of mathematics, however there is the human input aspect which would impede on a prediction and add to the error.</p>
<p>For instance, I know that Brandeis weights GPA as 40% of one's application, and SAT scores as 30%. Therefore having a greater GPA relative to SAT scores is better than the other way around.</p>
<p>Let us base this off of percentages, allowing us to directly compare GPA and SAT.</p>
<p>A 3.1 out of a 4.0 is .775 and a 1390/1600 is basically .86875 if it were a uniform distribution, however as we all know, it follows the normal distribution. I would do the work to find the actual percentage, but I am going to say it is about a .93 (according to my collegeboard SAT scores, I was better than 95% on math and 91% on verbal, so average is 93%...) for the sake of time. Now, lets weight them according to Brandeis' percentages:</p>
<p>.4 * .775 + .3 * .93 = .31 + .279 = .589</p>
<p>Now out of a possible .7, I have achieved a .589 or about 84%. The other .3 are recommendations, essays, ethnicity, geographic location, religion, and other minor stuff.</p>
<p>Then, by randomly sampling those who were accepted and rejected and coming up with the Q1, median, and Q3, you can come up with whether Brandeis is a reach, target, or safety.</p>
<p>The same can be done for any school that weights GPA relative to SATs.</p>
<p>Again, nothing is guaranteed, but this method would give one a pretty good idea of one's chances.</p>
<p>Wow Jimmyshi! I am impressed!</p>
<p>You are right you do have to pare it down. For my D. we did 2 reaches, 2 matches and 2 safeties)
We used the process of elimination to pare down and you have to do it like you say or you could go nuts filling out apps.</p>
<p>However if you are not sure if you would go..then you may want to eliminate it..but I wouldnt eliminate it based on your stats which seem good to me and your posts are great so I bet your essays will be good.</p>
<p>Thanks for the compliments! I guess, but we will just have to see how things work out. I think I also just eliminated Lehigh if just for the fact that they are very snooty on the phone...</p>
<p>We shall see, and hopefully we get accepted somewhere.</p>
<p>Now dont eliminate cus of one person!</p>
<p>It is hard. What we did was first pare down by area (as her major was something you could get anywhere)..then she visited a few and decided she wanted HUGE or very large..so that eliminated a lot and then we thought that most public U's were not as good as UMD so we eliminated more and got it down that way.</p>
<p>I think knowing the size you want, climate, area all helps. We talked to the kids at the schools and the ones at UMD LOVED IT! One girl said to me she could not imagine going anywhere else.
So that was a place she applied and she LOVES it also.</p>
<p>I know, but I don't have much of a preference for a certain type of climate, size of school and all of that. It's scary to my guidance counseler as well...</p>
<p>I need to eliminate something, and considering how they need to represent the school to those with admissions questions - meaning those who want to apply - and act snobby and unhelpful, I am led to believe that the entire population is just like them. I don't know yet. I sent the transcripts, it's the application I need to decide on at this point.</p>
<p>Sounds like you would be happy alot of places....You are easygoing. </p>
<p>You may want to look at the type of school for example some schools are frat oriented..would you like to be in a frat. I was stunned when I looked at one school and saw such a high percent of the students were in frats. (stats are in the US NEWS magazine) so we eliminated that type of school.</p>
<p>Also many schools had more females than males..so that was out. D. wanted at least a 50/50 split which is almost what it is at UMD. So look past size and climate and towards the inner workings and that may help also.</p>
<p>Different ones have a feel to them.. My friend said her daughter took to wearing twinsets and pearls at the college she ended up at! It was that type of school.</p>
<p>Well if I do want to be an engineer, I'm headed to a technical school, or at least a school with a strong math program. Most of the time, those schools have more males than females - by a significant amount. So I really cannot make a judgement based on that. In terms of frats, they are not for me. Whether they are present or not should not affect my college experience though, so I see it as a non-issue. Confusing, no?</p>
<p>If the majority of kids belong to a frat..its likely to be a clique type of (sp) school...so you do not want that. For example I have a cousin who went to a smaller school (which shall remain nameless) she said everyone belonged to a sorority or fraternity and if you didnt do this or that you were looked at like you didnt belong. Well she hated it and transferred to UMD where there were lots more options.</p>
<p>As far as your major..I think certain colleges have the reputation for math/ sciences/ engineering..Johns Hopkins, one in PA whose name eludes me cus its late and I cant think etc.</p>
<p>Good point. So lets eliminate schools where more than 60% of the students traverse the Greek life. How many does that eliminate? 2, maybe 3? None of which were on my list in the first place. Good point, but no real application (no pun intended).</p>
<p>In terms of Johns Hopkins, I would think I had a chance close to nil at that university. My SAT's may be in their range, however my GPA (and lack of AP's) is abysmally low for them.</p>
<p>Ah there are a lot more than 2 or 3 schools where Greek life is in the majority.
I have no idea how to help you eliminate schools from your list because I don't know what is on your list and
besides that you never asked me for help anyway!
I was just shooting out ideas (ever the try to be helpful person here).
Good luck to you!</p>