Hello, i am a becoming a senior and applying to college this August and desperately need to know if i will get into UCONN>
My GPA (right now) is a 3.9 (out of 4) but I’m hoping it will go to 4.0 in my first semester of senior year, and 4.5 (out of 5.0).
I took all honor classes through out my 4 years of high school. My school doesn’t offer many AP classes and i don’t know if that’ll hurt me but they do offer alternatives like classes taken at University of Hartford, where we actually walk to the college and take it with other college students. I have took precalc, calc, calc 2, and a visual basic course (in the summer) over at the college and got good grades in all. However, i don’t know if this will actually help me in the application process. In addition, I took ECE (Early College Experience which is just like AP classes) English my junior year and planning to take ECE marine science and ECE english my senior year.
My SAT score is a 1710 (which sucks) but I have been practicing all summer and taking it again in October. I am hoping it will go to at least 1900. (Also if you have any good SAT advice, please tell me)
I did book club my freshman year. Although i love to read books, i didn’t continue it because i didn’t like the books they have picked for us to read.
I helped backstage for the Annual Fashion/Talent show at my school Sophomore year and became stage manager junior year and planning to do it senior year.
I was also in the yearbook club my junior and senior year.
I did around 100 hours of community service.
I also help out my dad with a Hindu cultural activity which he is in the board member of my junior year and maybe my senior year.
I also did dance outside of school for my sophomore, junior and senior year.
Awards: I got the Calculus award my junior year and High Honors awards for every marking period. You get the high honors award if you have a GPA above 4.2.
I also got published for my biography of Mary Goodman and got paid 75 dollars but 30 or so other people also got published in my school around the same time so i don’t know if that will make me stand out.
I have 2 teachers that i am sure will give me a good recommendation.
I don’t know what i want to write for my college essay yet. ( I am open to suggestions)
I’ve seen you post a few other questions, so I’ll try to answer more than one here.
It looks like you have a pretty good chance at getting in, however SAT is on the low side, especially for engineering. It’s hard to say since Uconn is so big, their application process is a little unpredictable. This past year average SAT was ~1250/1870 and the lowest I heard of getting in was a 1750 with a 3.95 GPA. A 1900 would probably get you in, but again, not sure since you’re looking at engineering. My advice is to maybe go undecided or pick another major so you can apply to the school of engineering later and just change your major then
As for the branch campus-
The application on common app is for the Storrs campus. In one section, there is an option to be considered for a branch as well. Decisions all come out the same day, typically stronger applicants get into Storrs and weaker applicants get into a branch. The branches are cheaper and I believe you can try to transfer after one semester, but it’s a guaranteed transfer after two years if you maintain a certain GPA (although I’m not entirely sure so don’t hold me to that)
As for limited AP classes at your high school, admissions (for any school) judge how you do in relation to your high school. This is why class rank is often considered more important than GPA. If your high school offers less advanced level classes they take that into consideration.
You should retake SAT and maybe try the ACT, other than that you have a pretty good shot getting in. Good luck!
I wouldn’t recommend this. Even if you’re not admitted into Engineering you can still be admitted into the Storrs campus. Applying to Engineering initially is more convenient since you don’t have to apply again while enrolled and fret over whether your GPA is high enough. @Peoples to clarify, any student can switch to Arts & Sciences and Agriculture. Other schools do have entrance requirements. For Engineering I think they just want you to keep your GPA high enough and have taken the proper science and math classes.
The branches are “cheaper” since there’s no housing or meal plan and the extra fees are lower. The tuition is still the same. After two years students can do a campus change, but engineering students usually change earlier due to a lack of engineering classes at branch campuses. In general I recommend engineering majors start at Storrs unless they weren’t accepted there or want to save money by commuting.
I don’t have a straight answer for that. Students are eligible to change campuses when they receive 54 credits (two years if you take 15 credits per semester). If the branch campus doesn’t have classes you need for your major you can change campuses earlier. I’m not sure if its possible to do so after a semester, but engineering majors should be eligible after a year.
The reality is that you won’t “KNOW!!!” for sure until acceptances go out. All anyone here can offer is an educated guess, the same educated guess you could give yourself if you looked at the data.
So come up with a much longer list of schools you would be happy to attend, and start your essay.
@peoples there’s no guarantee that you will be accepted
@SaintSaens I know people who went undeclared and then applied for school of engineering. I also talked to both my academic and premed advisor about changing my major from chemistry to chemical engineering and he said it was doable since you don’t take any required engineering courses as a freshman anyway. And getting the permission number to take ENGR classes offered to freshman while in another major is fairly simple. As long as you get good grades in the engineering pre reqs (which shouldn’t be that difficult if you’re serious about school work) then you should be fine to switch. Also, during this past spring I had talked to an admissions officer about a program that I did not initially apply for (b/c I didn’t think that I would make it into the program) and she told me that it was a good idea not to have applied to this program because I might have been rejected from the university all together. I assumed that would happen with a student applying for engineering as well, since I haven’t heard of someone being accepted but not into their program of study at uconn
so do you think i have a better chance to get into uconn as a different major than engineering or undeclared and then change my major once i am into uconn? @cayala3
@peoples the school of engineering has higher standards than CLAS, so you would likely have a better chance getting in as a CLAS major (something related, such as physics) and then switching at the end of freshman year. If you are on the fence about whether or not you will be accepted, I would recommend doing that, especially if you have your heart set on Storrs. If you are looking to go to one of the branch campuses, it might be easier to just apply for engineering. I would call the admissions office and ask or talk to your counselor about it to figure out what’s best based on your specific situation