<p>Is it still possible to get into the top 25 colleges, like Cornell or MIT, with a 3.45 unweighted GPA and SATs in the mid-2200s?</p>
<p>Not unless you have a great hook. URM status might do it, but Native American would be safer.</p>
<p>Depends on the courseload…if you took AP classes or easy classes and can explain yourself FULLY in the application. Write a HELLUVA essay.</p>
<p>But also, remember, getting into Cornell or top 25 is not the end all and be all…what is MORE important is getting into a school where you will thrive and be successful and HAPPY.</p>
<p>Its NOT about school rankings. Its about YOU and YOUR interests and YOUR needs and if you FIT into the school academically, socially and otherwise.</p>
<p>Would you rather be a big fish in a small pond and HAPPY?</p>
<p>There are people with perfect GPA’s in honors classes and 2200+ who are rejected to these schools. Is it theoretically possible? Yes, but I wouldn’t bet on it.</p>