MA White Kid... Chance me ^^

<p>Note: I don't know if this affects anything, but my weighted GPA was a 3.85 and 3.97 for freshman and sophomore year. However, I have a 4.4-4.5 weighted GPA for junior year... would this show that I'm improving or will they just look at the average GPA?</p>

<p>Gender: M
Location: New England
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Major: Science/engineering</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 3.7
GPA - Weighted: 4.10 (out of 5)
Class Rank: top 20% (school doesn't rank: 4.0+ GPA is top 20% and 4.5+ is top 2%)
Class Size: 500</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 760
SAT I Critical Reading: 630
SAT I Writing: 700
SAT II Chemistry: 720
SAT II U.S. History: 730
SAT II Biology M: 730
SAT II Math 2: 800</p>

<p>I'm going to retake the SAT in October and will expect higher grades (didn't really study for 1st time)</p>

<p>APs:</p>

<p>Junior year: US History, Biology
Senior year: AP Statistics, BC Calculus, AP European History, AP Physics (might take Government/Politics on the side)</p>

<p>I'm expecting 5's (most people at our school get 4's or 5's)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>High School Band: 3 years, will continue it next year
-Section leader and first chair trumpet player, got into the MA all-state band this year and played at Symphony Hall
-Jazz band, brass quintet (we play for church and other events), pit band for musicals</p>

<p>Other EC's: National Honors Society, ushering, will be working at an immunology lab for 6 weeks this summer</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:</p>

<p>Cornell (first choice: I know it's a reach)
Boston University
University of Rochester
U Illinois (Urbana Champaign)
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
Northwestern University</p>

<p>I hope that's enough information... have fun praising me/ tearing me apart =P</p>

<p>Tsubaki, I’ll chance you if you give me your unweighted and weighted GPAs in percentage. I have no idea what 4.10 means at your school.</p>

<p>Unweighted is 3.7 out of 4
Weighted is 4.10 out of 5</p>

<p>Percentage… like 0 to 100% haha.</p>

<p>For example, my GPA is a 95.35.</p>

<p>Ohhh… couldn’t you do the math on your own? heh heh
3.7/4= 92.5%
4.1/5= 82%</p>

<p>Why is your weighted so much lower than your unweighted?</p>

<p>It isn’t. 4.1 > 3.7</p>

<p>Also, your weighted can be really low in comparison to your unweighted if you don’t have a lot of Honors/APs.</p>