<p>So, freshman,sophomore, and part of junior year, I got bad grades. Second semester Junior year, I buckled up and got myself together. The twist is, that my course load was extremely difficult and my extracurricular activities are very good.
Weighted GPA: 4.5</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.1(7 point scale)
ACT: 34</p>
<p>10thgrade
Calculus AB-B
AP Environmental Science -C
Honors Civics and Economics-B
Honors English -B
Calculus BC-C
Spanish 2 - B
AP Computer Science-B
AP Human Geography-C
Honors Physics - B</p>
<p>11grade
AP Physics B - C
Honors Spanish 3 -C
AP Psychology -B
AP Government and Politics-B
AP World History -A
Ap Statistics -A
AP US History-A
AP Economics -A
Honors Anatomy-A
Honors English-A</p>
<p>12 grade
Calc 3 at NC state -A
AP Comparative Gov.-A
Internship @ local bank -A
Honors microsoft excel-A</p>
<p>Extra Curricular:
Economics Pre-College Program at Uchicago
Held an internship and made iphone apps with 2 NYU students for 1 summer.
NC State Leadership Conference
Started an Economics club (Founder+President)</p>
<p>Other:
Varsity Soccer -all of high school
president of speech and debate - 3 years.
DECA - 2 years
Held a leadership position in my religious group
Key Club - all of high school
City volunteer teen group - all four years</p>
<p>Letters of Rec(1-10): ~7-8
Essays (1-10): ~8-9</p>
<p>Colleges:
Carnegie Mellon University
UNC(Instate)- Sibling Legacy
University of Notre Dame
Georgia Tech. </p>
<p>Your grades show a clear and consistent improvement. I wouldn’t worry about your grades, unless you apply to a school like UCB. I am not completely familiar with the schools you listed, but based on your ECs and grade improvement, you should be able to match Georgia Tech and CMU. All you need is a great SAT score to prove your improving grades. Good luck!</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon University- high match (unless it’s the school of computer science, then reach)
UNC(Instate)- low match
University of Notre Dame- high match (vague guess, I don’t know much about this school
Georgia Tech - match (same as above)</p>
<p>To be honest, I think your grades will harm you a bit, but as the person before me said, they show good improvement. You have great extra curriculars, and your load is extremely rigorous. So I think overall you’re in pretty good shape (but I do think your case is pretty peculiar and I’m not quite sure how to chance you, but I gave it my best shot).</p>
<p>ACT scores look great, and I think it’s important to put an emphasis on that weighted, it shows rigor. Try to acquire leadership roles and I think you’re definitely on your way!</p>
<p>My aunt is an admissions officer and she has told me that grades are of utmost importance. HOWEVER, your rigor is impressive. You have a chance at all, but CMU is a low reach.</p>
<p>Georgia Tech for sure. Your ACT is great and so is your rigor.
being in-state for UNC may help but GPA probably needs to be a bit higher.
Overall, your ECs, rigor, and ACT make up for the few bad grades. Like most have said, the upward trend is good!</p>
Anyone else? </p>