<p>Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, and sometimes Asians.</p>
<p>You may be overthinking it. Everybody but an URM with a 4.0, 1600 SAT, and at least one Olympic gold medal could be improved in some way. The gpa is done and there is nothing you can do about it. It isn't that low. I would rather have a high SAT and low gpa than vice versa. Try to get A's in senior year so that you have upward trend when they look at the mid-year senior report. If the gpa really worries you, try an essay about your love of learning for the sake of learning, and drop a line about how the intellectual stimulation outweighs any consideration of grades.</p>
<p>Wisconsin is probably more numbers driven since it is a large state school.</p>