<p>Yale
Amherst
Rice
Wake Forest
Penn State
University of Illinois
Duke
Notre Dame</p>
<p>SAT:
Writing - 690
Reading - 710
Math - 710</p>
<p>Freshman Year: (terrible, I know)
accelerated prob stat - C
honors environmental science - B
honors english - B
gym (required) - A
band/chorus - A-
honors comm strat - B+
honors global studies - B+
french 1 - B
honors geometry - C
gpa: 4.5, weighted. </p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
college prep(regular) algebra 2 - A+
health (required) - A+
band/chorus - A-
honors biology - A
art major 1 - A-
honors social studies - A-
honors english - A-
french 2 - A
band/chorus - A-
gym 2 (required) - A-
gpa: 5.2, weighted</p>
<p>Junior Year:
Art major 2 - A
computer skills (required) - A+
AP english - A
honors trigonometry - A
band/chorus - A
honors chemistry - A
AP European History - A
French 3 - A-
French 4 - A
gpa: 5.8, weighted</p>
<p>Senior year: (predicted)
AP studio art - A
AP language - A
AP calculus AB - B+
Band/chorus - A-
AP biology - A-
AP french - A-
gpa: 6.39, weighted</p>
<p>extracurricular:
- 3 years of key club, webmaster. exceeded required hours every year
- 8 years of girl scouts, earned gold award - 80+ community service hours, very good project involving a sustainable program created at the end in many libraries so it could be continued
- 3 years of french club, president senior year
- 3 years of varsity tennis, president senior year
- five years of club diving, 2 years on high school team
- selective youth symphony orchestra for bassoon
- venture crew - outdoor trips one weekend every month, big trip hiking for 2 weeks in the summer at philmont
- bassoon district band for 2 years
- art honors society, 1 year
- honors society, 1 year
- peer tutoring at high school for 2 years</p>
<p>what are my chances? please be 100% honest</p>
<p>also, I forgot to mention that my overall weighted gpa would be 5.4</p>
<p>You need to take 2 SAT II tests to be considered for admission to Yale.</p>
<p>I know, I haven’t taken them yet but if I get a 700 plus on both.</p>
<p>what? how does one get a GPA over a 5.0 or even a 6.0? use a grading scale that makes sense please.</p>
<p>How can you be “president” of a sports team?</p>
<p>Unless you have a very good reason for your freshman year grades, you don’t have a chance at Yale and a very small one Duke, Amherst, or Rice. On a side note, I’ve never seen a student take 10 classes a semester.</p>
<p>And yes, please post your GPA on the traditional 4.0 scale (4 = A, 3 = B, AP/honors get one extra point).</p>
<p>I said it was weighted.
And yeah, I meant captain not president.</p>
<p>And I have 10 classes for the whole year, not semester…</p>
<p>So? A weighted GPA cannot get over 5.0? Idgaf how many classes you took, if you got an A in math like you say you did, you should know it can’t get over 5. I mean let’s say you took 10 classes and they were all AP’s and you got straight A’s. That would be 10 x 5 = 50/10 =5.</p>
<p>What race are you? Because a 2110 for Yale is going to be a huge huge reach.</p>
<p>@sec4life
First of all, I wasn’t talking to you about how many classes I took. Second of all, AP’s are 7.00, weighted, for an A.</p>
<p>I don’t know what kind of grading system you’re using, but AP’s are weighted as only 5 points max…</p>
<p>That’s weird, my school says it’s 7.00. I’m confused now.</p>
<p>Your school might weight it at 7, but for colleges, they weigh it as an A is out of 5.00. I understand that schools have different grading systems, but the 5-point system is the college-based system.</p>
<p>Like the above poster said, the standard grading system is out of 4.0, with AP and honors getting an extra point. Colleges will recalculate your GPA to be out of 4, but you could recalculate it yourself using the guidelines I posted to get a more accurate “chance,” since a lot of people on this board are used to dealing with GPAs in standard form.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks for clearing it up for me.
If my GPA is 4.39 with the extra points for AP and honors, does that make it easier to give me chances?</p>
<p>Yes it does.</p>
<p>Anyway, bad freshman year is still pulling down your chances; unless you get the SAT up Yale is a very long shot (even with a higher SAT it would still be a really long shot, though).</p>