<p>I have a:</p>
<p>below average unweighted GPA
average weighted GPA
above average courseload
average SAT score
average/above average awards and ECs
average/above average essay-writing skills
average/below average recs
average/below average volunteering </p>
<p>good or bad?</p>
<p>Good. Same here with me. :) I think essays and ECs count a lot more when you're probably stressing over a 3.75+ in hard courses. Hopefully. And I think meaninful ECs overrides volunteering and as long as you recs aren't bad, you're probably good to go.</p>
<p>-3 for below average
-1 for average/ below average
0 for average
+1 for average/ above average
+3 for above average</p>
<p>Completely arbitrary lol. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, your net gain/loss happens to be a zero. I'll go with "undefined."</p>
<p>^The problem with that is that it weighs everything equally.</p>
<p>Then you get into weighting factors..</p>
<p>^ Ah well, nothings perfect. </p>
<p>Lets try...</p>
<p>unweighted GPA (weighting of 1.75)
weighted GPA (weighting of 1.75)
courseload (weighting of 2.0)
SAT score (weighting of 1.5)
awards and ECs (weighting of 1.5)
essay-writing skills (weighting of 1.5)
recs (weighting of 1)
volunteering (weighting of 1)</p>
<p>Using the aforementioned scaling and weighting...
-3(1.75) + 3(2) + 1.5 + 1.5 - 1 - 1
Equals...</p>
<p>1.75</p>
<p>Lol, I guess your good then?</p>
<p>yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. know how they say "there's no formula to college admissions"? perhaps they're wrong and we've found the holy grail to getting into HYP!!!</p>
<p>haha <3 us. </p>
<p>Using that for me:
-1.75-1.75(we don't weight)+4-1.5+1.5+0+0-1 = -.5 :/
Uh oh. But can you say that weighted GPA is kinda counting uw GPA and courseload twice?</p>
<p>haha yayyy :D</p>
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compared to ppl who got into hyp from my school...
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<p>the fact that so many people from your school get into hyp that you can make such comparisons says a lot about your chances :)</p>
<p>yeah my schools good with that :) last year we had about 20 people out of 300 get into HYPMS</p>
<p>Yeah, we get 2-4 a year... out of 200-250. My grade is particularly large though.. so we'll see about that.</p>
<p>we get 0-1 into hyp in an average year, let's make it hyps? then we have 3-4! XD</p>
<p>Yeah usually we get 1 MAYBE 2 people to Yale. Never H-vard or P-ton.</p>
<p>We got maybe 1-2 out of 500 into HYPMS. Yeah, we're that ghetto.</p>
<p>^ Same here</p>
<p>Actually, now that I think about it, 1-2 people out of 1500 (the entire campus) is probably more realistic, since so many people apply to just University of Michigan and some other in-state colleges. I only personally know one. Yeah, we're even more ghetto than I thought.</p>
<p>Yeah, for us usually the valedictorian and maybe the salutarian go to ivies, one of which has been hyp in recent memory. Generally no more than 10 (and that's a high estimate) of our classes of about 250 leave our state. Of course, I live in CA, so they have a lot of options, but still.</p>
<p>my highschool is in the 300s on the list of best highschools, so we only send about 1-2 kids out of 625 to hypsm</p>
<p>my school is like #850 or something. so rankings aren't everything =)</p>