Chances with average GPA, decent SAT scores?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SATs: 1340/1600, 2060/2400
ACTs: Expecting 28-32
SAT2s: 690-730 US History, 650-690 Literature</p>

<p>GPA freshman through junior year: 3.32 unweighted
I have a pretty clear upward trend though:
freshman year was about 3.14
sophomore was about a 3.3
junior year was a 3.5 with a pretty difficult schedule. </p>

<p>My school does not weight honors/pre-ib courses (I took 3 freshman and sophomore years), so the only year with any weighted courses was junior year which becomes a 3.71. </p>

<p>Senior year I took a schedule with only 1 AP and 2 IBs and am expecting a first quarter GPA of 3.6 unweighted, 3.8ish weighted. </p>

<p>School district is also on a 94+=A, 90-94=B+, 84-90=B,... grading scale. I have received several B+s that would be A's in other school districts. </p>

<p>School does not rank, but I'm probably top 20% or so in a graduating class of ~600.</p>

<p>Middle class white kid from Northern Virginia.</p>

<p>ECs:
2 years cross country
4 years tennis (all-district for 2 years)
4 years school paper (nationally ranked publication with which I have held pretty powerful positions)
2 years DECA
2 years Quill & Scroll
Won Regional Science Fair sophomore year</p>

<p>probably a couple more average activities</p>

<p>Wondering what my chances are for:</p>

<p>University of Virginia (I know it's a reach)
Villanova
Tulane
University of South Carolina
University of Colorado
Univeristy of Florida
Florida State
Virginia Tech
Boston University
Syracuse</p>

<p>I am hoping to study business of some sort at a large university. If you have any other suggestions for me please post them...public/private does not really matter to me.</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>...anyone?</p>

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<p>I think you have good chances at most of these schools. Upward trend, solid scores, good activities. Toughest will probably be UVA and Florida</p>

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<p>do u live in Florida? cause your unweighted seems ok and your SAT seems ok so i think you are fine for UF and all others except UVA.</p>

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<p>I hate to bump this, but I'm just looking for a couple more opinions, particularly for University of Florida, Villanova, and UVA...am I 50/50, 40/60...??</p>

<p>Seriously, I have almost no idea how much adcoms take grade trend and grading scale into account and my counselor does not seem very knowledgeable either. </p>

<p>In most other school districts I'd have about a 4.1 weighted GPA over my junior year and the first quarter of senior year, but instead it's only like a 3.8ish weighted, and on top of that I had slightly below 3.2s freshman and sophomore years...</p>

<p>btw, satscholar, I live in NoVA, not Florida.</p>

<p>Thanks!!</p>

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<p>My son has a 3.28 unweighted gpa in a high performing suburban high school. c's in physics and precalc junior year. A's and B's in other college prep and AP courses. 670M/640CR/630W on the SAT.</p>

<p>Where does he fit? We live in New England.</p>