<p>With a 3.8 weighted GPA I'm not in the top 50% of my class. You could say my school is very competitive. How does this bode for college admission? Is seems every school at least wants the top 50%. GW, W&M, American, UNC-CH! I expect my grades to surge significantly in my senior year, but will colleges get this info? Thanks.</p>
<p>or there’s terrible grade inflation.</p>
<p>Is your school’s average SAT over 2100. If yes, it is very competitive and some non top 20 schools will see it that way.</p>
<p>But lots of schools have out of control grade inflation that does not mean they are competitive.</p>
<p>Yeah that definitely sounds like you have some grade inflation. Assuming it’s on a 4 point scale that is</p>
<p>then what are my chances?</p>
<p>Find out which of your schools does not have class rank as an “important admissions factor” on the College Board website…you need to find a school that has GPA as most important…good luck!</p>
<p>Your test scores need to be high in order to show how competitive your school is etc…ACT in the 30s and 700s in your SAT 2s</p>
<p>One of the most revealing stats from you school is–How many pass the AP exams–and are these 4s and 5s…that stat tells something about rigor…so look at that stat–as that will be something the AdCom looks at as well.</p>
<p>Also if your school includes courses in fine arts, chorus etc in the gpa calc–and kids get As for that–it helps inflate gpas.</p>
<p>Colleges use only the core academic subjects–math, eng, science, math and foreign lang…</p>
<p>Are you sure you are in the bottom half? </p>
<p>There is no way to know how your sr yr grades will be–
and
AdComs look at what you have done–not what you say you will do…
and then they only see the first semester before the admissions decisions are done anyway…</p>