<p>My GPA is a bit average after looking at a few college medians, (3.56 unweighted), but this puts me at a low rank at my high school (230/856). Will the bad rank hurt my chances at applying to schools like Emory or Vanderbilt? Also, my bad GPA is mainly due to a freshmen year of 1 C and a few B's. In 10th and 11th grade I definitely improved my grades, recieveing mostly A's, but I just am not able to move my rank. My SAT score was a 2070 (800 math, 640 CR, 630 W) I'm just wondering with a bad high school rank are my chances significantly dropped.</p>
<p>Also, In my high school experience I got a C and 2 B's out of my 3 math classes I have taken so far. I also got a 800 on math on my SAT. Does this look bad to colleges?</p>
<p>in my opinion i think what the colleges can think is either the course is too difficult in which case theyll compare you to others in your class or if your standardized test scores are good (which they are for math) they might consider you lazy but intelligent which doesnt always bode well. definitely try to bring your grades up. colleges like seeing significant improvement. hope this helps even a little bit</p>
<p>definitely one of the most interesting cases I’ve seen in my few years on CC…Find schools that value SAT’s and care much less about GPA/class rank.(definitely not Emory or Vanderbilt though)…you may want to talk to a few admissions officers at schools you are not in love with and ask them how they would handle your situation…I’m assuming your math classes were honors level? that would really help; kids around here at the top of the class get B’s regularly in honors math and kill the SAT like you did…</p>
<p>So let me see if I understand this correctly; you earn A’s or so in humanities like english and history but you earned a 640 on CR, but you earn B’s and a C in math and earned an 800 on math…Maybe you should take your SAT over to raise your CR score to correlate with your grades in class?; then at least you could apply into a non-math major and it would make some more logical sense…</p>