<p>Hi, I am a first-generation male senior who attends a well-respected Catholic high school.</p>
<p>I'm applying to the following schools...
-Davidson
-RPI
-Colby
-U Miami
-WUSTL
-Richmond
-Clemson
-VTech
-Furman<br>
-plus some safeties </p>
<p>SAT: M-710 CR-670 (1380)
SAT II: Math II-760</p>
<p>GPA: 3.2 unweighted
Rank: 38 out of 227
I will have taken four AP classes by the end of high school: AP US History, AP Physics:C, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-raised over $1300 for Make-A-Wish through fundraising events over two summers and received a Silver Star of Excellence from a local news station
- All-State Clarinet
- Concert Band
- Indoor Track
- Varsity Golf team
- Math Peer tutoring
- Billiards Club Champion
- National Honors Society
- English Honors Society
- over 300 hours of community service
- Ambassadors Club</p>
<p>Recommendations- Superb.
Essay- Excellent. They are very unique.</p>
<p>VA Tech only looks at weighted GPAs so what’s your weighted GPA? Until then, I’m not able to chance you for VA Tech.</p>
<p>Davidson: High match
RPI: Match (ECs saving you)
Colby: Reach
U Miami: Low match
WUSTL: Reach
Richmond: High match
Clemson: Low match
Furman: Low match</p>
<p>Do you have a reason for the low GPA? Has it been consistently at this, rising, or did you take a dip one year? You’re still in the top quarter of your class which is good. I would say Colby is reach for sure.</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
CP1 Biology- A
CP1 Theology- A
Honors Algebra II- B-(due to lack of math skills. Math clicked for me in the second quarter of junior year.)
Honors History- A
Accelerated Spanish I- B (I never had Spanish before and the teacher was awful.)
Honors English- A-</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors Chemistry- C (due to lack of math skills and an extremely tough teacher.)
Honors Theology- A-
Honors Geometry- B-(the teacher legitimately gave out random grades. I have a ridiculous amount of examples to support my statement but I don’t feel like listing them. I would of had an A if he could grade fairly. I was one of those people who was good a geometry but not algebra.)
Honors U.S. History- A-
Accelerated Spanish II- B+ (would have been an A- but she failed me on a binder at the end of the year not because my notes weren’t good or I was missing something but because my the rings on my binder were messed up.)
Honors English- B</p>
<p>Junior Year:
Accelerated Biochemistry of Human Nutrition- B (the teacher failed me on every homework even though I got the answers right and gave me zeros on all of the class participation grades just because I don’t talk even though I paid attention more than all of the class. I had an A every quarter until she updated the hw and class participation grades. She was extremely unfair to me.)
Honors Theology- B+
Honors Pre-Calculus- A- (after a 80 avg. in the first quarter. Finally got good at math.)
AP U.S. History- B
CP1 Spanish III- B- (the teacher was impossible and tested us on stuff that we never learned.)
Honors English- B+ (another extremely unfair grader.)</p>
<p>Senior Year:
AP Physics C- C+ (we only had one grade the whole quarter…)
Honors Theology- B+
AP Calculus BC- B (very tough class. Our valedictorian and salutatorian only have B+)
Honors European History- B-
AP Statistics- B+
CP1 English- A (couldn’t take honors due to a scheduling conflict and I would have had an A in honors too because it is the same teacher and all of the assignments and tests have been exactly the same.)</p>
<p>I don’t want to sound like a complainer, but I feel that my GPA is skewed due to multiple unfair teachers. I’m not saying that I would have a 4.0 or anything close to that but it would be significantly better than what it is at the present. Also, my bad grades in freshman and sophomore year came from math related classes (i.e. Chemistry, Algebra II and Geometry) which I have gotten much better at (I got a 47 on the math PSAT when I took it in sophomore year).</p>
<p>Honestly it is just sounding like you are blaming teachers and not owning up to your grades. It is no ones fault but yourself. Yes you might have had a few harsh teachers (we all have), but it is extremely unlikely that so many teachers were the reason behind low grades. Not only that but you continued to take honors classes in subjects that were dependent on math, something that you recognized you struggle with.</p>
<p>Not to be rude, but accept you GPA, you earned it, we have already given you accurate chances, there is no need to continue bumping…</p>
<p>ArtsyGirl13, I know that it sounds extremely unlikely that so many teachers have adversely affected my GPA but it is true. All of the grades in the other classes I completely deserved but the ones I mentioned I truly deserved a much better grade. I know that most teachers are not unfair, but I just happened to run into practically every unfair teacher in the school. I know you don’t think so, but If you had my teachers, you would be saying the same thing that I’m saying.</p>