<p>Well After reading and reading and reading, I have come to know that I have a bad GPA. I thought i was going to be in good schools in my home state Virginia, but everyone has a higher GPA than I do.</p>
<p>My Stats:
GPA: 3.5
Hispanic
Extra curricular I've done alot</p>
<p>My questions:
1) What is something i should, minimum get on the SAT, to get into a good Virginian college?
2) Say i do get that minimum SAT score, which Virginian college do you think i have a shot at?</p>
<p>There's nothing like a "minimum" score at any school. Being a URM (Hispanic) might cut you some slack, but not much. Aim for as high as you possibly can (heck, aim for a 2400!) and see what happens. (Unfortunately, that's a lesson I'm trying to teach myself...)</p>
<p>Assuming your GPA is on a 4.0 scale, your grades aren't bad at all. Sure, many people may have higher than you, but tons of people have lower than you too.</p>
<p>That said, it's hard to say what a "minimum" SAT score should be, as jennieblue said. Just study up a bit and do your best, and then you'll have a much more accurate picture as to what schools you should be looking at.</p>
<p>I myself had no idea what schools to look at until I actually took the SATs.</p>
<p>The PTO at my son's school offered free SAT tests (given my Princeton Review to promote their services.) They score it and give you a report that tells you what you are strong on and weak on. If your school doesn't offer it, see if a nearby school does offer it and ifyou can take it. That will help you.</p>
<p>My son did take a review course, and had one on one tutoring but it didn't improve his score very much. I think just working with one of the study guides will help you just fine.</p>
<p>On myCollegeSTAT.com someone got into the University of Virginia with a 4.0 GPA and the SAT scores below. </p>
<p>Reading: 640
Math: 780
Writing: 650
myCollegeSTAT</a> - University of Virginia</p>
<p>Someone got into the College of William and Mary with 3.9 GPA and the below SAT scores:</p>
<p>Reading: 770
Math: 690 </p>
<p>3.5 is not bad, just the people on CC are generally kind of freaky about grades and such. Being hispanic will help you, so you actually do still have a shot at getting into UVA (which I think is the most prestigious?) with a relatively high SAT score. So yeah, take the SAT twice (once so you know what its all about, then study the things you missed before the second one), and you should be good to go pretty much anywhere in VA. If you insist upon numbers, I'd say shoot for 700+ on each section, but if you really do have good extracurriculars and you write a really good essay (this is important! do not blow off your admissions essay! Get a teacher to correct it and such for you...), getting into pretty much any VA school shouldn't be too much of a problem.</p>
<p>Oops...i just remembered something...I'm sort of basing this off of the fact that I got into the UVA Rodman Scholars (top 10% of incoming engineering class)with slightly better stats than you, except i'm not a minority which i think would make up the difference. HOWEVER, this probably doesn't correlate much at all to getting into the LIBERAL ARTS side of the college, which is harder, if thats what you're looking for ... sorry ...</p>
<p>3.5 weighted or unweighted?</p>
<p>3.5 unweighted is fairly strong if your course load is the most rigorous offered.</p>
<p>pay no attention to these 2400 SAT 4.5 GPA unweighted types...HYPS will reject most of them anyway.</p>