<p>I'll just give you my background right now.</p>
<p>-3.8 GPA under a 5.0 scale
-21 ACT Score, I took it twice, the other one was a 20
-Involved in Sports and Activities like Football and Peer Counseling
-Have made an improvement with Class Difficulties over the years, Started from very weak classes to very strong honor/A.P classes.</p>
<p>How do my chances look?</p>
<p>Your stats are low for Indiana. They are not horrible though. 3.04 gpa on a 4.0 scale and 21 ACT. People get into IU with those numbers, but to have much of a chance you would have to apply really early, as in August or early September. The longer you wait to apply, the less likely you will get in.</p>
<p>Percentage wise, what would you say? I haven’t even started my college applications, sadly.</p>
<p>Your stats are about bottom 20% for IU per the most recent common data set.
<a href=“http://www.indiana.edu/~uirr/reports/compliance/doc/common_dataset/CDS_2009/IUB_2009.pdf[/url]”>http://www.indiana.edu/~uirr/reports/compliance/doc/common_dataset/CDS_2009/IUB_2009.pdf</a></p>
<p>I would guess 50/50 chance of getting in if applying in August; 40% chance of getting in if apply in September; and less than 20% chance in October and after when a lot of people apply with new and higher ACT and SAT scores from September and October testings.</p>
<p>It is worth trying. The application takes 30 minutes and the e-transcript takes 5 minutes if you high school has such arrangement. You may want to write an optional essay about why you are interested in IU. Of course, you need to invest the application fee of ~$50. Good luck.</p>
<p>I’m really not THAT interested in it because money is an issue, but at the same time I kind of wonder If my grades/gpa/act are good enough for me to get in.</p>
<p>I hate to be Mr. Blunt, but if you haven’t applied yet, don’t bother. I haven’t talked to anyone here with an ACT score under 24.</p>
<p>OK. Then, it would not be worthwhile spending time writing a not-so-convincing essay. Instead, you should invest the time applying to a few IS colleges.</p>
<p>10% chance max. I barely got in with a 3.0/26 ACT. Double deferred/waitlisted and I applied in September.</p>
<p>If you live in Illinois and money is a problem, then you probably shouldn’t be trying to get into out of state public schools like Michigan State, Purdue, U of Iowa, IU, and expensive privates like Marquette, all of which you have mentioned in chance threads. You also posted that your 3.8 on a five point scale converts to a 2.8. This is not correct and makes your situation look worse. It converts to 3.04.</p>
<p>my school counselor told me all I do is remove one point, I asked him again about this, and he said that is just the way it is according to the people around the school too.</p>
<p>^ Then he’s a moron. 4.0/5.0 = 0.8, 0.8(3.8)= 3.04</p>
<p>get your test scores up and you’ll be in better shape</p>
<p>If you’re not too interested in IU and money’s a concern then I probably wouldn’t bother applying. No offense, but with your status you probably won’t be getting any merit aid and IU is so expensive out of state. You’d be better off finding a school that’s a better fit for you financially.</p>
<p>Hmm. I had a 3.94 and a GPA a little above the 75th percentile of IU and I applied around November and automatically got in. I even got scholarships (which were supposedly “gone” by time I applied but I got anyways.)
Does Illinois have a application waiver program? I believe Indiana residents who are on free or reduced lunch can get any college application wavered, in-state or out-of-state.</p>
<p>Try U of I in Champaign. I’ve been there a few times and IU is really similar to it in terms of what the city itself is like and the atmosphere of the college campus.</p>
<p>Loon Lake, your calculation would only work if F’s were worth one point but they aren’t. It’s A=5, B=4, C=3, D=2, F=0 so you just subtract one point from the GPA to get it on a 4.0 scale. Our high school just switched last year from a 5.0 to a 4.0 scale and that’s how they did it.</p>
<p>OK, I calculated a few GPA’s to see if that was right and it comes out if you don’t have any F’s but if you do, then the GPA is definitely better if you have a 4.0 scale. My kids never had any F’s so that did not occur to me.</p>
<p>*<strong><em>my school counselor told me all I do is remove one point, I asked him again about this, and he said that is just the way it is according to the people around the school too. *</em></strong></p>
<p>This is how it works at my D’s school, also. They’re on a 5.0 scale (for reasons unbeknownst to me) and the 5.0 scale is identical to a 4.0 scale with 1.0 added to it. A=5.0, B=4.0, C=3.0, D=2.0. OK, F=0, so you can’t add 1 to that, but not many people get F’s. The problem with this scale is that people who aren’t familiar with how it works and who don’t pay attention to the Profile, which lays out what each grade is worth, will convert it to a 4.0 scale incorrectly, as people on this thread have done. At in-state schools (we’re in Illinois) and other schools (such as Indiana) that see lots of graduates of D’s high school, it’s never a problem.</p>