<p>i found out that a person instate with 2.1/4 gpa got in ...</p>
<p>any other ppl who got accepted in high 2's (2.7, 2.8, 2.9) or low 3's (3, 3.1 3.2) ?
any ppl get accepted with sat scores in the range of 1000-1200/1600?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>my daughter got in with a 3.4 1040/1560 SAT</p>
<p>My D deferred 3.4/3.6 1040/1610 oos NY</p>
<p>^^anybody else thinkin this is weird? #2 and #3 almost identical? demographic issues?</p>
<p>i was deferred with a 2.8 unweighted gpa and 1060/1670 in state.</p>
<p>DOES umass amherst combine SAT scores...like take highest score from M CR W ...if you took more than one test</p>
<p>Nope, no school does that. They will look at your overall highest score. Since all scores are technically sent to them, who knows, maybe they'll consider it, but I'm not sure if it will really matter. Was there a significant difference?</p>
<p>Actually most schools do "super score", or take the best combination of your M CR and W from all your test dates. This is pretty common and can be seen from the Ivy League schools to State unis (an exception would be the UCs in CA.) Now, I personally don't know if UMass would do this but it would be easy just to call admissions and just check.</p>
<p>Most schools don't super score the ACT though</p>
<p>i think when i went to the admissions seminar there...they said they do super score...which is good for some ppl i guess...</p>
<p>also do they take time to read the essay....like ever1 says its big...but do admissions officers "actully" read the whole thing? ....and does any1 know how many officers read it?</p>
<p>That's great to know about super score. I asked my guidance counselor about it and she gave me a flat out no. Also, does UMASS weigh GPA's based on Academic GPA or overall?</p>
<p>my GPA was 3.06 and my class rank is 150th out of 280 students
I go to a regular public school</p>
<p>they dont care what GPA is on ur transcript...regardless they recalculate it with their own weights</p>
<p>Hi
I read a link on MA state admission standards and have copied the gpa conversion criteria. </p>
<p>To calculate a weighted GPA, individuals must convert each final grade earned in
college preparatory courses to a 4-point grading scale (where "A"=4.0; "B"=3.0; "C"=2.0;
"D"=1.0 and F=0.0). A chart is provided with these materials so that letter or numeric
grades may be converted. Further, each course must be identified as college
preparatory, honors level, or Advanced Placement. Descriptions of these course levels
are provided to assist with proper identification of courses. Full-year honors level and
Advanced Placement courses will receive an extra .5 and 1.0 points on the 4-point
scale, respectively. A dual enrollment course will receive an extra 1.0 point on the 4-
point scale. </p>
<p>Here is the link: <a href="http://www.mass.edu/shared/documents/admissions/admissionsstandards.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.mass.edu/shared/documents/admissions/admissionsstandards.pdf</a></p>
<p>This may give you an idea of where you stand from gpa perspective. I'm sure ECs, sats and other factors are part of the process.</p>
<p>Demographics or choice of major? Who knows. A friend's son was also deferred. He had higher SAT-1120, but lower GPA.</p>
<p>well this wasn't this year but my school uses something called naviance which shows stats of students in our school. The lowest ever accepted from our school (a top public school in state) from the last three years was a 2.14, 910/1600 and 1190/2400 but they had a 28 on the ACTS which is roughly an 1860. Our school has had a lot of 2.6-2.7 kids get in even last year alone I know. Generally if you have a 3.0 and a 1600> UMASS Amherst has long been considered a safety in my school, at least for there main school. The business program always had an unofficial 3.4/3.5 cutoff as did the pre-med. This year however it seems ridiciously harder though. I myself applied rd and most my friends that got in had a 3.3+. One friend did have a 3.1 and get into the science school. My friend who lives in Shrewsbury (a suburb of Worcester) told me a person from his school last year who ended up going to MIT was rejected for UMASS. HE applied RD of course and the rationale was that they didn't expect him to go. He told me this has happened a lot in the past where they Reject top kids. Most of my class last yr (40 kids who enrolled out of a class of udner 400, and 180 that applied) had roughly a 3.0 and 1700+. Good Luck to everyone, I don't know why Umass is being so tough this year.</p>
<p>I wouldn't read too much into these stories about kids with lower GPAs getting into UMass. We have naviance too in our town, and it does show cases where the people with very low stats got in at some point in the past. But, we have no idea why that occurred. If you search on even the very competitive colleges, even Harvard, you'll see a few cases where someone got in with surprisingly low stats - maybe they knew someone, maybe they were very good at sports, maybe there was some kind of special circumstance. You see this in the other direction too. Naviance shows kids with 700 SATs and 3.8 averages who were rejected by UMass- who knows why.</p>
<p>The fact is though - for the last two years at our HS, no one below 3.2 got into UMass - and there were only a few of these. The reject rate for kids under 3.4 was very high.</p>
<p>My daughter has a 2.75 GPA and 1150 SAT from a prep schl in MA. She was not accepted.</p>
<p>With the economy the way it is, I know a lot more people who are going to Umass Amherst for the simple fact that instate tuition is much more affordable. I heard somewhere (unofficial statistic) that EA applicants were up by 15% from last year, and the expected number of total applicants was expected to be between 15-25% higher than last year</p>