Hi!
In regard to Direct Admissions I’m in pretty good shape ACT wise (32 composite) but on the GPA side my school doesn’t calculate GPA / doesn’t send it. My GPA if I were to calculate would be on the low side however I go to a top 10 private school in my state where everyone goes to top colleges and all courses (besides AP) are on an honors level but they don’t have an honors name next to them. I also have missed a lot of school due to sickness/injury which obviously impacted my grades. Will the admissions office take both sickness/injury and school reputation into account?
My understanding is that the first pass does not take any of that into account. After you get your denial, you can appeal (I think they call it petition) and explain it and then they can decide…the petition is explained on your website. The example they use is if you gpa is 3.79 instead of 3.80 with a high test score…then you would be a good candidate for petition.