<p>Matt – I should have elaborated, so will do that here.</p>
<p>Here’s the thing… 1210 SAT is fine, but not in COMBINATION with a 3.1 GPA. You cannot do anything about your GPA at his point, so all you can do is bring your SAT to over 1300, or as close as you can to it, to show you have POTENTIAL enough for the adcom to actually read your file and get a read on you.</p>
<p>If you look at the GPAs of students entering just about all the colleges in the top 100 of USNWR, ave. GPA ranges from about 3.5 to about 4.3 (weighted).</p>
<p>Looking here, I do find that you are probably a strong match for James Madison with your current stats:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?classYear=2013&schoolId=1809[/url]”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/admissions/admissions_tracker_result.jhtml?classYear=2013&schoolId=1809</a></p>
<p>As a last recommendation, the admit rates for Early Action are much, much higher than those for Regular Decision at most mid-tier Universities. You can select for that variable at he link I showed above. To see the scattergram of GPA/SAT data and admissions result for all the schools on your list, Just input the name of each into the search box.</p>