<p>What would be the lowest GPA for a double hook (URM, Chess) applicant with high test scores?</p>
<p>lol dude i think "there's no formula" has been used on this site at least 1000 times. It really depends on what courses have lowered your gpa and what your course rigor is-so asking specific questions is prbly a better idea.</p>
<p>I started taking high school classes in 7th grade and my GPA has suffered. I have maybe taken 4 regulars classes in total. Everything else has been honors and ap. 3 APs last year, 2 this year because I am doing a work study program.</p>
<p>There is no minimum cutoff. Really. As your GPA decreases, so will your chance of getting in, but there is no minimum cutoff (and having a rigorous schedule is a plus). Not for URMs, not for non-URMs. If you have high test scores and a low GPA (note to paranoid applicants: a 3.9 is not "low"), you may come off looking like an intelligent slacker, and will have to demonstrate how this is not so somewhere on your application.</p>
<p>Also, you think chess is a hook? It's not exactly a rare activity at MIT.</p>
<p>Stupid question: what is a URM?</p>
<p>If your unweighted GPA is LESS than 3.0, then I would start to worry (either you've screwed a lot of classes or you better have some very very good reasoning for it).</p>
<p>GleasSpty: Underrepresented minority</p>
<p>I dont think that playing chess for fun is a hook. But being ranked highly in the country and winning state championships should give me a hook. But I am new at this whole college game...</p>
<p>Also, Im over a 3.0uw but not by much. My weighted is over a 4...Does anyone else have a point separating their weighted and unweighted?</p>
<p>What classes caused your GPA to get so low? Hopefully it wasn't some math and science courses.</p>
<p>More like English and Spanish</p>
<p>Do you really consider "chess" a hook?</p>
<p>Serious gamers play Go.</p>
<p>I think that you can easily distinguish yourself and create a hook when you show passion. I know that some say that a hooked applicant fills a spot that the college needs but I think that the college can find out that they are looking for you if you advertise yourself in the right way.Think about it this way: How many people applying to a certain college are the exact same as you? I would say that no one truly is and therefore you have a potential to spin your ec's and personality in order to be attractive to a college...I created an irregular supplement of my chess accomplishments (Newspaper articles, online articles, ranking, and major titles) to send to MIT and other top schools. The reps that I have shown it to really like it (Upenn, Tufts, Wesleyan) If I do well in my college search process, I would definitely send it through pm...</p>