<p>How important are mid-year reports at ivies and other competative colleges</p>
<p>when you are applying RD?</p>
<p>Will mine have a negative effect?</p>
<p>Up until junior year, my GPA was a 3.6 but my mid-year report is</p>
<p>expected to be around 3.3</p>
<p>dont plan on getting in unless daddy is a senator or built the university a new hall</p>
<p>......... seriously?</p>
<p>it won't have that bad an effect, but it will somewhat hurt because it is a lower in GPA. the above poster was a little harsh saying u have no chance, but a 3.6 UW isn't that great unless u go to an ultracomeptitive school</p>
<p>I disagree. The Ivies say that 67% of their applicants are more than qualified to attend their institution. Assume that the average # of applications to any of hte Ivies is 20,000 (as it is for Yale). That means there are over 13,000 people who are all vying for one of less than 2000 spots (I assume this is near the average incoming class at the Ivies - some maybe more, some less). A 3.6UW would still be a reach, but not much less than the person with the 4.0. However, they do take especial consideration of a grade trend, and to see that senior grades have dropped by .3, I think would put you at a severe disadvantage when vying for a spot. </p>
<p>I don't intend to be mean, but thats the way the system works. I still hope you apply anyway - you can't get in if you don't apply - but don't set yourself up for a big disappointment either.</p>
<p>what about a drop in a rigorous courseload from a 3.95 cumulative to a 3.85, hows that look?</p>
<p>they use your GPA and class rank from the midyear report, so everything before that is moot at certain colleges</p>
<p>Oh thanks for the feedback on mid-year report stuff</p>
<p>I recalculated my GPA right now and I was actually mistaken</p>
<p>My GPA up until Junior year was a 3.7 and the cumulative GPA</p>
<p>including my senior year is about a 3.59</p>
<p>Now can you evaluate my chances?</p>
<p>I have good EC's and my SAT scores are 740M 690V,</p>
<p>800 Math 2c, 710 Chem, and 750 Writing.</p>
<p>I don't want to list all EC's due to privacy</p>
<p>I got postive feedbacks for my essays and I have okay recs.</p>
<p>As I told you, I think my mid-year report is going to be not that good</p>
<p>I'm a NY resident</p>
<p>The list:</p>
<p>U of Rochester
NYU
Vanderbilt U
Boston U
Johns Hopkins
Washington U in St.Louis
Dartmouth
Cornell (ED deferred)</p>
<p>If you were deferred ED, then they'll probably be paying attention to your grades, and they've declined! Dartmouth and Cornell ar eless competitive than say, Yale, Harvard, or Princeton so I'm not sure. But as Anarchy45 pointed out, you'll be up against kids with better SAT scores, very strong EC's, and 4.0 GPA's.</p>
<p>but then again, you'll be up against kids like me (althought probably not many), international from north of the boarder. 800M 600V, 780iic, 640writing, 630BioM
and 3 goood dedicated (200hrs/each/year) ECs.
and mediocre essays
4.0 uw
4.1w
all honors</p>
<p>thanks...</p>
<p>bump</p>