Isenberg Marketing Early Action CHANCE ME

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Massachusetts - Amherst
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GPA Weighted: 3.44 on 4 scale SAT: 1190: 590 math 600 English ACT: 24

White male middle class public suburban small relatively high ranked high school in north shore MA

4 years of every major subject(math, science, English, foreign lang and social studies)

Mostly all honors classes all of high school except freshmen year (only one honors class) and all honors and ap every year after that except for math

8 APs: Psych, Lit, Lang, Spanish Lang, CSP, Microeconomics, Bio, APUSH (4 APs junior year 4 senior year)

65th in my class out of 160 kids

3 on APUSH Lang and CSP (AP scholar award)
2 on bio :frowning:

ECs: -Eagle Scout/ very involved in scouting: national jamboree staff, order of the arrow(Boy Scout NHS), was in charge of my troop sophomore year) (My essay is on my involvement in scouting and how it helped me become a leader etc)

-Band, Tri-M member (Band NHS), heavily involved

-Stage Manager for school musical, heavily involved with build/stage crew

-Republican club, chess club, robotics club, and some other ones

-Didn’t do it all of high school but ran cross country and got most improved award (my highest athletic achievement lol), and winter track and tennis freshman and sophomore year.

-Crucifer/altar boy in church throughout high school (Episcopal)

-Sales associate at Banana Republic

Recommendations: my guidance counselor knows me relatively well and my other recommender is my APCSP and intro to java teacher. I know I probably shouldn’t do CS teacher if I want to major in business but honestly my favorite teacher in high school and I loved computer science but not the right job for me

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I normally don’t like doing chance me’s (since at the end of the day, it all depends on how competitive your application class is), but since your stats were relatively similar to mine, I’ll make the exception. Your GPA was almost exactly the same as mine (3.45 weighted), I also took a ton of APs as well (10 in total), however, my exams were quite a bit higher. 1490 SATs (using the old scale converted), and a 31 ACTs. I’m assuming that my high scores were probably what pushed me over the edge and got me accepted directly into Isenberg. I would say you have a decent chance of getting in due to your APs and extracurriculars, but you might get put on the exploratory track. But for UMass in general, you have a great chance. So you might have to do an internal transfer into Isenberg later on, but you’ve pretty much got it in the bag for UMass in general. However, take what I say with a grain of salt, because I was accepted almost 2 years ago. I’m not sure how competitive the next year’s class will be.