<p>Is there ANY possible way of getting accepted into a top college like UChicago or University of Notre Dame with an extremely low gpa like a 3.0?</p>
<p>What are your SAT scores?</p>
<p>Even with a very high SAT score, your chance of admittance with a 3.0 GPA would be really low (unless you have a mitigating circumstance or a special talent or something).</p>
<p>I’m a junior so I have yet to take the SAT. If, hypothetically speaking, I were to get around a 2200 would that boost my chances? Also I go to a visual arts school and I’m a really good painter. Could that be considered a hook?</p>
<p>You would need to be honest a 2400, a killer essay, and anything else that will help. If you are involved in like an art club and your talents are known (not like you doodle in a book), then it’ll be a good hook. But not as good as if you were trying to get into their art school, then that would really help. </p>
<p>[Notre</a> Dame - GPA and Test Scores Needed for Admission](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/university-of-notre-dame-admission-gpa-sat-act.htm]Notre”>University of Notre Dame: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores) </p>
<p>[University</a> of Chicago - GPA and Test Scores Needed for Admission](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/GPA-SAT-ACT-Graphs/ss/university-of-chicago-admission-gpa-sat-act.htm]University”>UChicago Admissions: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores)</p>
<p>Look at these graphs. I won’t say impossible, though. Never say never ;)</p>
<p>Thanks, that was really helpful! Hey, I can’t go wrong with applying and hoping for the best.</p>
<p>Can you dunk a basketball with two hands? That would be a good hook!</p>
<p>Otherwise, I’m afraid your chances of being admitted to Notre Dame, Chicago or their academic peers with a 3.0 are so remote that they’re not really worth considering. Sorry.</p>
<p>If you can throw a football through a moving tire at 70 yards, you could fog a mirror and get into Notre Dame. Otherwise, no, you’ve got to have great GPA and great test scores, plus a few other things.</p>
<p>FWIW, our school doesn’t send very many kids to ND (few Catholics at the school), but they do recruit the occasional athlete. The lowest acceptance I can see on the Naviance scattergram, and it looks athletic, was a 30 ACT with a 3.7 UW GPA done EA. All others who got in had 3.9+ and one 4.0 UW GPA with a 34 ACT was denied.</p>
<p>We send a lot more to Chicago. The lowest anyone has ever gotten in there is a 30 ACT with a 3.65 GPA. Most who get in are at 3.8+ UW GPA with 30+ ACT.</p>
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Notre Dame football has a 97% graduation rate, which is higher than the overall Notre Dame class. Their football players are qualified to do the coursework. Across all Div I sports, Notre Dame’s graduation rate is 2nd highest in the nation, after Stanford. They don’t post GPA data in the CDS, but the class rank info suggests something around 1% at or below 3.0. Chicago lists 1% 3.0 to 3.24 and none below 3.0.</p>
<p>The comment about Notre Dame was tongue-in-cheek, but graduation rates can be manipulated. Not saying Notre Dame does it, but some schools are known for not exactly grading athletes on the same scale as ordinary students. Top dollar college athletics are as pure as the driven slush.</p>
<p>the average SAT at UChicago is like 1450 - 1550 (for M and CR). Therefore, you’d be average with SAT, and have a very low GPA. I’d say your chance would be nearly 0. Same with Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Last year, 21% of the students Emory University’s Oxford College admitted had high school GPAs between 3.0 and 3.49. 1% had GPAs from 2.5-2.99. The average SAT was score a 1985 (<a href=“http://apply.emory.edu/pdf/admission_profile_2013.pdf[/url]”>http://apply.emory.edu/pdf/admission_profile_2013.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>That’s probably your best bet if you’re set on attending a top school. Places like UChicago simply have too many applicants to seriously consider those with lower GPAs.</p>
<p>I’ve also been thinking about Cornell even though i see that i probably have no chance. Is being accepted to AAP highly unlikely even with a killer portfolio?</p>
<p>Define “killer portfolio”. There are lots of people who THINK they’re great artists, the question is, what do other people think? I mean a really, really honest appraisal, from someone not connected to you who is willing to rip an artist apart if they have no real talent to succeed as a professional. (Yes, I know there are visionaries who won’t be appreciated for 100 years, but let’s assume OP doesn’t wish to starve, live the rest of his life in obscurity, and die a poor consumptive at the age of 34, only to be proclaimed an undiscovered genius in the late 21st Century.)</p>
<p>If you can pass that test, of getting others with a critical eye to recognize your talent, then grades and test scores really won’t matter that much at schools truly dedicated to the arts. That might not be Cornell, but it could be any of the good art schools like RISD or The School at The Art Institute of Chicago.</p>
<p>^Still laughing at that post; made my morning!</p>
<p>Given a choice between low GPA/high SAT or high GPA/low SAT, I expect a school like Cornell’s AAP to prefer the latter. Obviously high/high is best, but a lower score on the SAT could be overcome by someone who works his/her butt off to get the grades. And that is definitely a “work your butt off” program.</p>