<p>I've been reading a lot of people's chances and after weeks of comparing myself to all these people I finally decided to register and have my own chances evaluated...I'm scared...but someone PLEASE give me some advice!!!</p>
<p>GPA: 5.03 out of 6 (I think) and I hope someone knows what this means cuz I don't</p>
<p>SAT: CR-570 (I have no idea how that happened), Math-670, Writing-720
(I'm definitely retaking them, I can definitely get CR up to 650 at least--do they look at the highest for each section??)</p>
<p>SATII: Hebrew-630, MathII-hopefully in 700s</p>
<p>APs: English Language-B+, hopefully 4 or 5, Psych-A, almost surely a 5</p>
<p>Next year's APs: English Literature, Spanish, Calc AB, Eco/Gov</p>
<p>Honors Spanish for 2 years</p>
<p>My extracurriculars are ok but not great, my SAT score will improve and I thought I had a really good GPA (am I completely wrong??)</p>
<p>I was wondering about schools near New York or Boston or about like up to 4 hours away from NY...</p>
<p>Manhattan College-safety, I can go for free cuz my mom teaches there
Brandeis-reach I think, but I REALLY REALLY wanna go there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (The point of me registering for CC was to mostly see if you all thought I had a chance here)
Amherst-big reach
Clark
SUNY Binghamton
Sarah Lawrence</p>
<p>So.. opinions?? suggestions?? any advice?? how do my Brandeis chances seem??</p>
<p>Manhattan College- safety
Brandeis - reach (maybe a match ED)
Amherst- big reach (like your said)
Clark- safety (I'm assuming your refering to the one in the MA, not WA)
SUNY Binghamton -reach (very numbers based)
Sarah Lawrence -match</p>
<p>Do you live in California?</p>
<p>No, I live in New York
and yes I meant the Clark in MA</p>
<p>wow..thanks for answering so fast!
any ideas on how my GPA is??</p>
<p>anyone else? plzzz!!</p>
<p>We can't assess your GPA without knowing class rank. I max GPA at your school is a 6.0, a 5 something may not be very high. Colleges put your grades in context of your school and how you compare there.</p>
<p>My school says it doesn't give a rank, but my guidance counselor said something about me being high in the second quintile or something. There are like 200 people in my grade. </p>
<p>Also, with SATs, do colleges look at the highest score on each section if I take it twice? or do they count both equally, take the highest total, or average them? or do they all do different things? anyone know what Brandeis does?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>anyone?
if it helps, my guidance counselor said today that a 5.03/6 is like a 4/4 (or at least a very high 3), since in our crazy gpa system its impossible to get a 6/6</p>
<p>***, theres a SAT II for HEBREW?!? I never knew that.</p>
<p>Hopefulbob, that makes NO sense. Anyone getting straight As in your harest classes would have the 6.0. I've never seen a school where that didn't happen.</p>
<p>It makes sense. My school doesnt offer honors or AP classes in every subject every year. An A+ in a non-honors or AP class gets you a 5. This 5, at best, is factored into the total, making it impossible to get a perfect 6.</p>
<p>yeah. i got to the same school as hopeful bob. The highest anyone could possibly get is a 5.5 or 5.7. Our school has a really screwed up system that i will never understand.</p>