<p>Do you think a weighted GPA of a 95.145, and and unweighted GPA of a 91.654 (+5 honors, +8 AP; full-course load taken) is Ivy worthy?</p>
<p>I go to a medical magnet school, so it's really competitive, and my rank may make it sound like I'm a bad student (rank according to weighted GPA, all we do; I don't know my actual rank btw): ~35/170</p>
<p>Highest GPA probably: 101.432</p>
<p>I'm URM, if that helps.</p>
<p>i mean theres not a whole lot you can do, no one on this site can tell you if you can get into an ivy league or not, some perfect applicants get rejected and some lower level applicants get accepted. best advice is just apply to any schools you'd like to go to... but yea you should be competitive for any school. SAT scores?</p>
<p>Your best indicator is how other similar candidates from your particular school have faired. Does your school send lots of candidates to IVY schools? What were their stats like? Talk to your guidance counselor or look at the scatterplots from your school counseling office. That will tell you lots more than folks can do. Good Luck.</p>
<p>We usually send like 3 to Harvard (most of these also get accepted to Princeton), and that is usually it (MIT and Dartmouth usually also).</p>
<p>Those people are usually in the top ten, but their class wasn't as competitive (like their top ten% (17 ppl) is like 98.092), ours (someone saw the cutoff by "accident") is like 99.234, I think. </p>
<p>I'm hoping for SAT scores of like 2100+ and SAT IIs of at least 2100+. I'm prepping really hard. I want this.</p>
<p>Were the successful candidates also URMs? Your stats seem to be in the acceptable range. It will really be a matter</p>
<p>I am sure you want admission. So what you are saying is that from your school only top 10 candidates gained admission? Does your school not have scatterplots or definite history for you? You mentioned know a "cutoff" by accident?? Why is that? It sounds from your statement that your school ranks students? Do you have some idea of your class rank?</p>
<p>Were the successful candidates also URMs? Your stats seem to be in the acceptable range. Remember though, ivies get a lot of apps from qualified URMs. If you've taken a tough courseload, your SAT breakdown is strong in cr + math, you've overcome some obsticles, you have strong recs.....you get the idea, it's the whole picture.</p>
<p>what is your unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>I would suggest that you read the following:</p>
<p>NACAC's 2006 Annual State of College Admission Report provides analysis of the combined results from the Admission Trends Survey and the Counseling Trends Survey. Based on surveys of school counselors and colleges and universities nationwide, NACAC provides this report to highlight issues of concern to college-bound students, their parents, and the educators who serve them. </p>
<p>Even if you don't read the whole report, you should definitely read Chapter 4 Factors in the admissions process </p>
<p>As far as GPA's you have a 4.6 weighted vs. 3.6 unweighted.</p>
<p>according to the NACAC:</p>
<p>Colleges and universities receive transcripts and GPA calculations from thousands of high schools, each of which may calculate GPAs differently.</p>
<p>Many high schools use a traditional 4-point scale to measure grade averages, others use weighted 4.5- or 5-point scales, while still others use grade scales that reach as high as 8 or 10.</p>
<p>To provide a standard comparison of grade point averages among applicants, some colleges recalculate grade point averages. Colleges
are virtually evenly split on the practice of recalculating GPAs49 percent do and 51 percent do not. </p>
<p>High yield institutions are more likely than low yield institutions to recalculate GPA. (Basically more selective schools where if admitted the student is more likely to enroll will recalculate your GPA to a 4 point scale)</p>
<p>I would also suggest reading the The Recipe For Success, a look into how the 11 admission officers at Williams balance scores of priorities from the campus community.</p>
<p>What I mean about the cutoff issue is that I know the top 10 to my class is that someone went to the counselor and saw it (they were a senior, so she didn't suspect). I don't know my ranking, near it; I just know the top ten percent cutoff (like 98 something) and the top ten (99.234).</p>
<p>The person that I know that was a URM got in barely in the top ten percent (97 something low, but their class wasn't competitive) and only had like 1350 (M+V). He was into Latin very much though and a camp that helps ppl with like MS, and other things.</p>
<p>bump this up</p>
<p>I want Harvard really bad, now that I got the information packet/booklet (that everyone probably gets)</p>
<p>just found out my GPA weighted is like a 94.535 and unweighted is like 91.534! =-o</p>